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UWCL Contenders Back In Action ⚽️ Barcelona OL Lyonnes Chelsea Arsenal Manchester United Real Madrid · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  Oh. Hey.
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  Welcome back since the general podcast for me about 1 football.
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  I'm your host Dino de Sesperis and as always I'm joined by my
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  Co host Mr. Grant Engel. What is up man?
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  I'm feeling fantastic buddy. It's it's good to be back, good
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  to talk. Some football could have
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  watched. Some football felt like it was
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  away for a while. We were away for a little while,
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  doing professional things, family things.
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  It's, you know, good to be back. Yep, doing professional dad
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  things over here on my end, just, you know, double duty,
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  triple duty, just whatever, whatever needs to get done, you
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  know. But yeah, I, I was glad to kind
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  of have the European football back.
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  That was nice. Long break, you know, now we got
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  some stakes and we're just about 3 weeks out from Champions
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  League kicking back into gear in earnest.
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  I cannot wait. We've got 12 teams that are
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  still alive. As a little refresher, I thought
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  I wanted to, 10 of them were in action this past weekend.
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  I wanted to kind of check in on all them.
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  Lot of fun matches, a lot of good football.
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  Just going to get a little temperature check.
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  I'm I'm interested to see what you saw with some of these
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  teams. I definitely had some notes.
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  So I definitely want to get into it.
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  I want to talk about these teams.
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  Mr. Reinengle, where should we get started?
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  Let's get started with a beverage.
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  It's been way too long now. Am I going to pretend like I
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  haven't had any beverages since we last spoke?
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  That wouldn't be honest. However, it's good to crack one
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  with you, my good man. Cheers to you.
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  Cheers to Football 26. You know, whatever fresh hell
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  awaits us every day in the news, we still have the football, so
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  that's good at least. We still got the football.
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  I'm not going to quite do a full blown episode calendar, but
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  we've got an episode coming up, my man.
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  We've got a big one coming up. We've got a 2 parter.
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  up. We're not going to, you know,
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  spill any beans on on on who's coming on the show.
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  Suffice it to say these are two people that you know very, very
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  well. One of them may or may not have
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  made an appearance on our 26th under 26.
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  So that's a little hint from your boys.
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  We've got episode 200 coming up and we're just going to blow it
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  we're going to release this that episode.
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  Either way, it's going to be a lot of fun.
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  Totally agree. I cannot wait.
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  You are an A+ guest, Booker. Look, I mean forever for all of
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  this podcast now, Dino's never lied to you before.
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  He's not lying to you now. This is we're talking real deal
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  outstanding guests, one of whom, as you mentioned, on our 26 to
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  watch under 26 in the year 26 list and a player that I can
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  confidently say is often discussed on this podcast and by
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  Absolutely. All right, let's get to it.
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  Let's talk to the football where we get started.
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  Let's start with Barcelona. They're still good.
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  I want to get that out of the way.
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  Let's see. Well, a little little while ago,
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  like I think as we record this, like a week ago, they absolutely
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  battered Atletico Madrid. They scored early, they scored
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  off and it ended up five nil. It wasn't even just that it was
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  the score line was like that out of whack.
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  I mean Athletic did not even look like they were any at all
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  interested in even competing in this one.
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  They were out shot 30 to 1 and Athletics one shot was from
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  outside the box. Just two touches on the entire
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  day inside Barsa's box for Athleti.
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  I mean, doesn't didn't look like a team that's kind of in
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  Champions League form. And Athleti, when you actually
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  kind of zoom zoom out, it's been a while since they've won.
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  I think their last win is all the way back in November, the
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  four NIL win at FC-20, which when you look back I'm surprised
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  they got that done considering they've gone they've gone super
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  cold since then. Yeah, vibes are not good.
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  You know, they they give up the goal to Alexia and in the first
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  minute of that match, I really, you know, after observing this
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  comprehensive ass kicking, I my main take away from that one and
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  you know, we don't have to focus too much on this one.
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  But my main take away was for Atleti was OK.
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  Well, I get at least they didn't allow a goal from the 13th
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  minute to the 59th minute. You know, that's a pretty good
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  stretch. Kind of the best thing I could
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  say about them on that day. Yeah, because it it is true.
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  They they did kind of lock the rest on the rest that first
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  half. But they didn't they didn't do
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  anything, You know, they barely got the ball past the halfway
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  line. So it's like at that point, what
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  are we really talking about? And then earlier today they took
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  on Real Madrid in the Super Cup semifinal and a little bit
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  similar, you know, kind of like super slow start Real Madrid.
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  Before you know it, you blink your eye a couple times and
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  Madrid's already up three goals on Adleti.
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  And, you know, I think that's pretty much a rap body language
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  kind of sunk into the mud a little bit for Adleti.
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  And, and, and you just kind of wonder, you know, what are they
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  focusing on? You know, obviously this is, you
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  know, the 1st for A to the Champions that you wonder if has
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  has it gotten away from the mentally?
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  Is there? Is it, is it a, you know, like a
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  conditioning thing where it's just a lot, you know, to to kind
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  of like tack on, Obviously you just Super Cup chambers.
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  You know, this is a lot for for a club that hasn't been at this
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  level yet. But either way, obviously
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  they've got that, that match with Manchester looming and and
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  they they've got to get it right over here in the next few weeks.
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  Otherwise, it's going to be a a quick in and out, you know, once
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  we get to the knockout stage. I think that might be some of
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  the silver lining if we yeah, I like this, we could transition
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  to that Letty like a little bit and kind of close the I mean,
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  obviously not for long term close the book, but in this show
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  kind of close the book. I'm talking about him.
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  I mean, so Luani gets that goal in the 72nd minute of today's
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  match versus Real Madrid. Another thing, like from my
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  notes, I was just like another extremely blah performance from
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  them. The the defenders were just
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  giving like great player. Like they were giving Caroline
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  Weir and Linda Kaiseto way too much space.
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  Like they were way backed off Kaiseto when she scored and then
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  Weir just ran right past them. When Weir scored the second goal
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  of the match. It was just like, yeah, I don't
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  know where they are in a headspace.
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  I think it's a great call out by you that you know that now they
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  have the Champions League load on top of everything else.
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  But the silver lining is Lawana gets that late goal.
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  Yeah, it doesn't make a difference in in this result,
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  but can that start to get some momentum going?
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  And the the last best thing I could say about him is they got
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  at least a little bit of time before that that magic is
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  Manchester United to figure it out.
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  And we know they played United close in the Champions League.
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  Yeah, Yeah, they did. And I think well, we'll see.
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  We'll see they get together. I mean, I think I want I do want
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  to talk a little bit Barcelona because Barcelona obviously
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  looked really good in that one. They out they were also in
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  action on Sunday to no win away versus a llama and Claudia Pina
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  scored in that one CGH as well. I did a little research because
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  I think my instinct was telling me that Barcelona, you know,
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  obviously we we know the injuries.
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  We welcome some of Valiuello back recently, which was great
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  to see. I think funnily enough, I think
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  Keegan Nazareth has had a really good effect on Patiuello because
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  I think Patiuello had not really been looking for, you know,
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  exactly who she was going to be on this team.
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  But Kika is so good at like these like short burst quick
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  runs. You know, I'm kind of like in
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  the zone and I'm just going to like dart, you know, And it's
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  like she looks a little bit like Westfall corrupted.
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  She's just like, I'm gone, you know, And I think Pattiuela is
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  doing a little bit more of that where it's like, OK, well,
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  there's not that much space. Let me just move.
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  Let me just like, almost like a quick, you know, basketball cut
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  from the, you know, the, you know, the wing to the baseline
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  or just kind of like, like in these little pockets, she's
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  finding space, more touches, more threatening.
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  I wonder if she kind of used that injury time to kind of
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  mentally dig into the game a little because she's still so
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  young, you know, and obviously she has that, that, that
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  different athletic background. But I really liked kind of some
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  of the the wrinkles that she's added to her game.
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  But real quick on Barcelona, I did some analysis because I
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  thought they were a little bit behind the pace of last year
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  202025 versus 2026. They've played fourteen of the
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  same league of F opponents so far in 2026 that they played in
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  2025, right? You know, in terms of if you
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  look at the, the, the, the, the opposing team in like home
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  versus away, right? So we could look at those 14
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  matches that they played this year, last year, last year, 64
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  goals for, 9 against plus 55 in those fragile matches.
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  Thirteen wins, one loss. 2026 the same.
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  Thirteen wins, one loss, 67 goals for, four against, plus 63
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  + 55 of last year. So if you look at those 14
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  common opponents, they're ahead of the base of last year, which
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  was a little bit of a shock to me considering, you know, the
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  line of flux feels like there's been some uneven performances.
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  But you look at the numbers and, and they're even better.
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  They're they're, they're doing more than they did.
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  Last year. Man that is hilarious.
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  Those those are great numbers because I know we've talked
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  about it like during some of these Champions League matches
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  where we're like, I would, I would say this podcast is far,
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  far, far from Barcelona skeptical.
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  Now, we've talked about some of the injuries.
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  We've talked about some of the performances that they put up in
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  the Champions League and thinking like, well, they don't
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  look quite as dominant as last year, but we know the talent is,
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  you know, superlative all over the field.
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  But yeah, I, I'm still a little surprised by those League of F
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  numbers that they're, that they're ahead of last year
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  because they, I don't know, there was, there was something
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  that maybe felt a little more inevitable last year.
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  But maybe some of our Barcelona pals who were giving us a little
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  bit of a little bit of gruff earlier this year would have, I
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  mean, we were. Yeah, who who would have, who
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  would have thought Barcelona fans.
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  But we love you guys. And so like what?
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  You know, maybe we were. I still think we were
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  overreacting. I'm talking this out in real
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  time. It didn't look as good.
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  You know, I remember I was thinking about the injuries
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  because I think that's what it was.
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  You know, we're like, how many can they withstand here?
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  But then you realize that it's like this is given, you know,
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  Barcelona an opportunity to play, you know, players like,
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  you know, said Ayodi and Carla Giulia and like, you know, Isa
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  Kamara, like so now we're and there's really exciting.
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  It's like stuff from each of those players.
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  So it's been awesome introducing them.
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  But I I guess I have the inclination to be like you look
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  at it. I haven't seen this one before.
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  This is a little it just seems a little weird.
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  But then the performances are there like they they are
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  performing. You know, Vicky's getting a ton
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  of minutes looks great. So I think it's just at the end
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  of the day, a new look Barcelona.
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  But then if you, if you just could get past that, they're
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  cooking. Yeah, I think you're spot on it.
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  That's got to be that's got to be what it is.
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  And, you know, the players know the system.
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  So many of them grew up in the system.
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  Claudia Pina, you mentioned she scored against a llama.
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  She has fourteen goals on the season.
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  The only player she's behind in League F Evapayor, of course,
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  who has 15 goals. So, you know, there's still a
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  flying death machine. I I I have used that term to
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  describe them before. CGHS goal in that a Llama match
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  on the corner kick, but not from the short corner that we've seen
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  like her just absolutely destroy teams with in the past.
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  She actually just let the ball come to her so that, you know,
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  they're just finding new ways. Even with all the great talent
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  where you know they can do certain things, they're still
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  kind of looking at little new wrinkles to kind of, you know,
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  sprinkle into all these matches. Yeah, absolutely.
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  And that and I think makes me think about, you know, the coach
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  better Romeo. It makes me think about their
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  old coach. You know, it all does.
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  And what's happening over at Lyon, some interesting score
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  lines. I mean, I think, you know, they
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  they're still sitting pretty comfortably at the top of the
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  Premier League Arkema table. But A1 no win over lawns and
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  then a nil, nil draw versus Pre FC and pre FC was coming off to
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  a 2 to one home loss to not who actually leap from that frog
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  them in the ranking. So now pre FC is sitting in
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  four. So premier Li are kind of a
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  bunch of stuff happening. But I want to talk Leon, because
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  I think there's something a little off, you know, and I
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  think you can we can look at the numbers and see that the actual
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  results quantifiably aren't there, even though the line UPS
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  look as look as stacked as ever. You look at, you know, kind of
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  who who hit out. This is rolling out there.
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  I think that's fair to say. I mean, if you want to just kind
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  of hop right into it, So what over the weekend they have a
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  nil, nil draw versus Perry FC and going into the Champions
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  League, I was way wrong about Perry FC.
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  And they showed me again over the weekend.
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  It was a tough performance like against against Leon, but I mean
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  they didn't let Leon kind of look real comfortable anywhere
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  near the danger area inside the 18.
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  And I just like really the the players are skilled, so I don't
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  mean to just like really like trivialize the skill and smarts
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  that they're playing with. I think what I underestimated
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  was Perry FC's toughness to to play physical enough to bump
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  A-Team like Lyon off their spots or maybe not let them get to
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  their spots. I'm glad you mentioned that
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  getting to their spots because because I'm, you know, I'm
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  watching the first half and I'm like, what is pre FC doing?
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  I think the shot the shot despair in the first half, five
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  to two for Leo. So this was this was just two
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  teams punching each other in the face for 45 minutes the first
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  half with not a lot of nobody giving up a ton of ground.
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  But pre FC was doing something really interesting where rather
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  than, you know, because you mentioned that, let the that
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  just kind of like let I said to run, let Caroline Weir run.
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  It's like I will just jog alongside you.
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  Like if it's just, you know, like it just that we're we're
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  running cross country out of here.
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  But Paria FC was very adamant about stopping the Lyon break
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  before it got started. You know, they knew, you know,
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  and and I'll just put a 4231 out there with heaps and dematis,
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  you know, in like kind of like a little deeper defensive spot.
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  So Paria FC was like, we're not going to just let you get the
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  ball, look at wherever you want to go and, and and, and let it
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  RIP. So they were almost starting
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  their press way, way, way up field or, or in their value,
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  however you want to think about that and just not letting any
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  kind of action happen. And what they were giving up was
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  Tarsiani up the right hand side like we're going to we're going
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  to let you run with it. We're not afraid of that.
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  To to tell you to the Tarsian his credit, she kind of wisened
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  up a little bit. It's like, let me just stop
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  running with the ball. Let me just kick it up into like
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  junior DNE and that kind of make this a little easier.
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  That that really was a little bit of an unlock for that Leon
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  offense, but a little sputtery. What you know, do you have any
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  thoughts on kind of like where they're at, where they might be?
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  Well, I, I want to go to another Tarsiane moment because I'm, I'm
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  glad you bring it up. So Norwegian attacker Nora, I
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  want to say it's wine. I think it's a with the little
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  circle or H with the little circle over the A and I think in
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  Norwegian that's like an O ish sound or no.
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  Hopefully we have a Norwegian pal in the in the comments will
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  correct me. So I'm going to go with Nora
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  Hawaiian for for right now. Perry FC is making a run on goal
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  and Hawaiian just blows past Tarsiani on the run, has a free
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  header not far from, you know, the six yard box and just skies
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  it over over the crossbar. Should have done better with the
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  header. But you then see Ingrid Langan
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  kind of turn around and look at Tarsiane and just like, what are
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  you doing? Like what?
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  Like why that attacker, just like why she's so far past you
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  with the free header. And I thought it was.
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  And you know, Tarsiane, to your to your point, the runs that she
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  had to make, it looked like they she was getting worn out out
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  there. You know, I just I don't think
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  that that's the kind of like, I mean, I I guess I just was
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  thinking about her more as a center back.
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  You just got great height and size and strength and she has
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  good top end speed, but it does take her a minute to kind of get
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  going. And I think there was a moment,
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  I think it was a DNE kind of give and go where to do a give
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  and go. You got to be able to start
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  fast, right? You can't you can't be plotting,
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  you know, kind of like more long distance runner type stride kind
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  of runner. And she when they tried to do it
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  into pre pre FC, obviously defensively they were locked in
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  all day. So that wasn't going to go
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  anywhere. But you could see, you know, the
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  lack of super twitchy immediate, you know, bolting speed, you
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  know, right, right out of the gate and the limitations that
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  that would provide, especially when you think about who was
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  there before Ali Carpenter, Sophie's fava, like, you know,
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  some some real, you know, players that could really jet
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  and then another player. I wanted to shout out 30 year
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  old Deja Davis from pre FC Montclair, NJ zone, LaSalle
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  university Zone, the LaSalle explorer.
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  Deja Davis had herself a game was just everywhere in that
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  first half. Blocks just blocked everything.
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  Didn't the biggest Leo name you could throw at Deja Davis didn't
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  matter every everybody part. She was using to kind of like
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  block every every attempt in that first half it seems.
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  So I'd want to give her a shout out.
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  She was, she was really awesome. Two blocks, 2 recorded blocks, 7
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  clearances, 4 headed clearances, an interception.
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  Yeah, she was a beast out there. And there's just something to
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  that. I know you and I have chuckled
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  about it before. Like, you know, Perry FC, what
• 19:11
  they've, they have 3 draws in their last five matches and
• 19:16
  they're just these, they're just these times where they turn way
• 19:21
  up to play Lyon and it looks like they're out punching their
• 19:25
  weight class. And it's cool to see that we've
• 19:27
  been, we've been following them and you know, the Premier League
• 19:31
  Arkema for a few years now and it seems pretty consistent over
• 19:35
  our time watching. Yeah, I mean, I I think back to
• 19:39
  my first moment furry up. See, this is I think when we
• 19:44
  were gearing up to to cover the first Champions League group
• 19:47
  stage. And I think that was the year
• 19:48
  that pre FC eliminated Arsenal in like some early
• 19:52
  preliminaries. And I didn't even know that the
• 19:55
  game was happening. So it was like a month or a
• 19:57
  month and a half before the the Champions.
• 19:58
  I'm like, I'm doing my my research and then like the the
• 20:01
  game happens from one. I'm like, wait, what, we're out.
• 20:04
  That's it. It was brutal side.
• 20:06
  I think I'll never forget pre FC just from from the trauma of of
• 20:10
  that of that happening. The giant killers, I think
• 20:13
  that's where I can't remember. They knocked out somebody else
• 20:15
  too. They did they, they already
• 20:17
  clipped, Yeah, they clipped Wolfsburg.
• 20:19
  Yeah, I think, I think that's right.
• 20:21
  So, you know, whatever it is in their in their DNA, it it's
• 20:27
  working for them. So I'm extremely excited who
• 20:31
  they come back. And yeah, they got your, your
• 20:35
  Blancas, Real Madrid, February 11th in Perry.
• 20:40
  It's going to be a football game.
• 20:42
  That's going to be a slugfest. That's going to be a we're going
• 20:46
  to it's going to be a long it's going to be a long 90 minutes, I
• 20:48
  think for both teams. Super excited about that.
• 20:51
  And previously I'm not sure. Yeah, I mentioned it kind of
• 20:53
  briefly in passing. They're in fourth place Premier
• 20:56
  League. Our camera, they're three
• 20:57
  they're three points back of non to team they lost to at home.
• 21:01
  So you know, they they lost an opportunity to make up points
• 21:04
  against that team as well. So you know, they're they're
• 21:07
  going to need to kind of turn it up.
• 21:09
  I think I think that draw versus Lyon may be enough to kind of
• 21:12
  kick him into gear and we'll see.
• 21:15
  This is a team that's got some Champions League experience,
• 21:17
  some some big tournament experience that maybe that he
• 21:22
  doesn't have. So we'll see if if that kind of
• 21:24
  comes into play as those two teams kind of get going in the
• 21:26
  in the knockout stage. But I want to shift over to
• 21:30
  England. We had some FA Cup round of 32
• 21:34
  action. All three of our champions teams
• 21:36
  or been getting busy this weekend.
• 21:38
  Chelsea hosted Crystal Palace, Arsenal hosted Aston Villa and
• 21:42
  Manchester United took on Burnley.
• 21:44
  I I want to talk about these three.
• 21:45
  I think there was interesting stuff across all three of these
• 21:48
  matches. Where do you want to get?
• 21:50
  Started, let's start with Chelsea, you know, starting to,
• 21:55
  starting to calibrate a little bit and I, I understand Crystal
• 21:59
  Palace, not exactly world beaters, but a Sam Kerr brace.
• 22:05
  Occur. Exactly rounded into form.
• 22:12
  Congratulations on the nuptials to to Sam Kerr and and Christy
• 22:16
  Mewis. Looks like Kerr's starting to
• 22:18
  play with that old confidence that we were used to seeing
• 22:21
  before this last injury. Yeah, I mean, we had, we had
• 22:26
  commented on it. She was getting into her spots
• 22:28
  and she's been getting touches in dangerous areas and, you
• 22:31
  know, just not able to look like Sam Kerr with the final touch.
• 22:36
  And I think now we're starting to see it.
• 22:38
  It looks pretty scary. Hell will say she's an
• 22:41
  excellent, excellent finisher. She's just so good at like
• 22:45
  creating an extra little bit of space for herself.
• 22:47
  And what's that extra little bit of space, an extra little bit of
• 22:50
  time. And if you give her a little bit
• 22:52
  of space in a little bit of time, more so than maybe, you
• 22:55
  know, another player would, would, would earn themselves in
• 22:57
  that under those same circumstances.
• 22:59
  It's Sam fucking Kerr with a little extra space, a little
• 23:02
  extra time, and you know what's going to happen.
• 23:05
  And it happened twice versus Palace.
• 23:07
  That first goal, I can't remember exactly what the
• 23:10
  announcer said, but on the first goal she gets played in by
• 23:12
  Cuthbert and the the announcer said something like there's
• 23:16
  really only one way that was going to end.
• 23:18
  Like when she when she's played clean through, she's scoring
• 23:22
  like she like you already know what time it is.
• 23:25
  So she's playing with great confidence on Curse second goal,
• 23:28
  the pass from girl Wrighton, who was going like 100 mph with the
• 23:34
  ball on the end line to hit the pass off the end line, like at
• 23:39
  that at that angle to play back into the middle of the box.
• 23:42
  I was just like, there's just no team that's going to be able to
• 23:46
  consistently stop that kind of play and.
• 23:51
  Girl, right, and a player a little bit, you know, not really
• 23:54
  sideline, but you know, and not really an afterthought, but kind
• 23:58
  of like a secondary or tertiary thought this season And Brighton
• 24:04
  and Kerr some real chemistry in this one, which was exciting to
• 24:07
  see. Like, you know, some of that
• 24:08
  interplay that that that the pinpoint nature of that cross
• 24:12
  ridiculous. Aaron Cuthbert had a day pulled
• 24:16
  out the pitching wedge to hit Millie Bright to start it off
• 24:19
  and then they get her second assist occur and Kerr was only
• 24:21
  created that turnover to get you know, to knock it away to get
• 24:25
  Cuthbert, you know, so like I mean, imagine she's going up
• 24:28
  while you're creating thing come back the other way to finishing
• 24:30
  unbelievable. Ellis Thompson cast caps off
• 24:33
  Chelsea's day with the 5th. But I think for me, a girl
• 24:36
  writing was the the star of this one.
• 24:38
  The golden assist draws the PK draws the foul that becomes that
• 24:42
  early Millie Bright goal five chances created on the day.
• 24:45
  And like I said, this was a player that was a little bit
• 24:48
  outside of the core core. You know, at least in my mind,
• 24:51
  you know, like what what what I had been thinking about Chelsea,
• 24:54
  31 years old, but obviously ton of experience and and to see
• 24:57
  right and really peak writing in this one.
• 25:00
  I mean, that was that was really cool to see.
• 25:03
  Yeah. And it's not something that any
• 25:05
  opponent wants to see, to your point, because, you know, it's
• 25:09
  one of those, it's one of those tricky things when you have like
• 25:12
  a super team like this. It's like you can't write the
• 25:15
  scouting report until like, let's try to limit what Girl
• 25:18
  Wright is doing because there are just too many other players
• 25:21
  on there that you have to prioritize ahead of her.
• 25:23
  But then if she has a great game or if JRK has a great game on
• 25:28
  the other side, it's just kind of like, well, yeah, I get, you
• 25:31
  know, I guess that happened. But like, we had to try to
• 25:34
  preoccupy ourselves with Sam Kerr, who went healthy, you
• 25:39
  know, as an argument as the best striker in the world, and Alyssa
• 25:43
  Thompson, who who's coming into her own in the WSL as well.
• 25:47
  Yeah, no doubt. Last quick shot out of this
• 25:50
  match, Viro Berman, 19 year old Dutch defender, played really,
• 25:53
  really well, you know, opposite Naomi Kerma, 90 minutes at
• 25:56
  center back, 98 touches, led the match.
• 25:59
  No, most number of touches, 90% of her passes completed, 19 pass
• 26:02
  into the final third. Again, this is a 1919 year old
• 26:06
  playing center back for Chelsea, just out there playing and you
• 26:09
  know, not and almost and also not like a debutant.
• 26:12
  This is a player that's also got a little bit of experience under
• 26:15
  her belt. So I mean, if if this is how
• 26:17
  bourbon is going to play, that's that's incredible.
• 26:20
  I'm going to talk a little Arsenal.
• 26:22
  Let's. Go.
• 26:25
  A good performance, but a match that was way more in the balance
• 26:31
  and I think a lot of folks were expecting.
• 26:33
  Villa played really tough, lot of shots in both directions,
• 26:36
  chances in both directions, a lot of time spent, you know, at
• 26:41
  nil, nil, you know, with the with the match in the balance.
• 26:44
  But ultimately, Arsenal does pull it out two nil.
• 26:48
  Shout out to Ellie Roebuck man former Manchester City Football
• 26:53
  Club goalkeeper now playing for playing for Aston Villa.
• 26:57
  I thought she had a hell of a game to keep it to two nil.
• 26:59
  I mean, you know, like you said, it wasn't like Arsenal's peak
• 27:04
  performance, but they they created chances, they got shots
• 27:08
  and and Roebuck had to make some diving acrobatic goals to keep
• 27:12
  it just that two nil loss. Obviously, I'm not sure which
• 27:17
  which version you saw on the old Internet.
• 27:20
  What what illegal or what perfectly legal streams you were
• 27:23
  looking at that I was also looking at.
• 27:25
  But from what I could hear on TNT Sports over there across the
• 27:29
  pond, the legend, Jackie Oatley on the call, Jen Beatty there,
• 27:34
  absolutely outstanding. 2 legends we can go.
• 27:39
  I, I feel like way too long since I've heard of the legend
• 27:43
  Jackie Oatley, you know, just dealing.
• 27:45
  Like I put that in my notes. Yeah, it's been too long.
• 27:48
  I feel like I've missed. Her yeah, she did our show now,
• 27:51
  I guess that was it. They're just, they're just like
• 27:52
  all right, did did the ITC just like, give me four months off
• 27:55
  123K cool, and I'll be back. That's right, too.
• 27:59
  That was the yes. That was the pinnacle of of her
• 28:02
  career, obviously. Clearly what happened.
• 28:03
  Clearly what happened? A couple other notes.
• 28:06
  Yasini Stephen Blacksinia Stephen Blacksinia scores in the
• 28:10
  50th created from from Kim Little Kim Little scores in the
• 28:15
  62nd. Great Kim Little match in this
• 28:17
  one. Also wanted to shout out Simile
• 28:19
  Simile Homburg, who looks definitely twitchy enough for
• 28:24
  the WSLII. You know, I came in early under
• 28:28
  some not good, not awesome circumstances, replaces Emily
• 28:31
  Fox. But Homburg, I think was excited
• 28:34
  about that signing from from the moment I heard about it.
• 28:38
  And then you see Homburg on the bench and she looks like
• 28:42
  physically she's ready to play in this league.
• 28:44
  And it'll be a matter of like as a chemistry there.
• 28:47
  And she can she kind of like, you know, get on the same
• 28:49
  wavelength. But I think off to a smashing
• 28:51
  start. Yeah, and this is kind of what
• 28:54
  we wanted to see out of Arsenal, like as the holders, but not
• 29:01
  like you're, you know, not in this phase like they were so
• 29:08
  many years ago. Not your perennial title
• 29:12
  contender, right? And I understand they won the
• 29:14
  whole damn thing last year, but they literally didn't qualify
• 29:18
  for for the Champions League the year before.
• 29:20
  So like, they're getting back to it.
• 29:21
  And we we know they have good depth.
• 29:24
  They don't have the greatest depth.
• 29:26
  So what we wanted to see from them is let's start to build it
• 29:30
  up. OK, you make it into the
• 29:31
  knockout phase. Now how can your form kind of
• 29:35
  evolve and improve as we get into this knockout phase?
• 29:39
  Then you know that it's not like they get to walk in with an easy
• 29:44
  match against Louvin in Belgium. But I, I, I want to unleash a
• 29:49
  take here. I think it's the perfect match
• 29:52
  up for them. And they're, I've heard the
• 29:54
  phrase used in the NFL in American football over here that
• 29:59
  sometimes you have a great team, make a make the playoffs, the
• 30:02
  knockout round in, in our home sport.
• 30:05
  And it's almost like better than having a bye week like because
• 30:09
  you actually get to, you get to play, you get to stay fresh, you
• 30:13
  get to sharpen it, but you still are favored to win and should
• 30:17
  win. And I feel like this is going to
• 30:18
  work out really nicely for Arsenal.
• 30:20
  It when you got started with that, the first thing I thought
• 30:24
  of, and I'm so glad you framed it that way was was a sparring
• 30:27
  partner. But like a professional sparring
• 30:29
  partner where it's like this person is going to come in and
• 30:32
  they they're going to try to hurt you.
• 30:34
  They're really here to kind of get get work and give work.
• 30:38
  And I think Louvin's going to do the same thing, you know, and
• 30:41
  I'm really happy that it's not, you know, and I don't want to
• 30:44
  pick on like, you know, athletic, but athletic in a, in
• 30:47
  a place where if Arsenal comes in and smashes them, it's not
• 30:51
  the same confidence boost. And I think Louvin, they're
• 30:54
  playing a specific brand of football and they are just not
• 30:57
  going to roll over Like they're, they're really going to stretch
• 31:02
  the game. They're they're going to make
• 31:03
  you run, they're going to make you defend.
• 31:05
  And you know, like, I don't know, they, they, they really
• 31:08
  just have a way of, you know, not really controlling the
• 31:11
  tempo, but grabbing lots of segments of the match in like
• 31:17
  grabbing the tempo in like segments of the match was like,
• 31:19
  we're going to control this 8 or 10 minutes of this match and
• 31:22
  you're not really going to understand what we're doing, but
• 31:24
  we're we're going to have you on your heels a little bit.
• 31:27
  I I totally agree with that's great call that a, a wonderful,
• 31:31
  you know, counterpart to, to, to an arsenal that kind of needs
• 31:34
  this kind of work. Yeah, and I think they'll I
• 31:38
  think they'll approach it that way.
• 31:39
  I mean, think of like you, you talk about Kim Little, you know,
• 31:43
  a long tenured great player, a a career winner and Mariona
• 31:48
  Caldente, Alessia Russo, like you, you got so many winners all
• 31:53
  across the roster there obviously.
• 31:55
  And they and they lifted the trophy last year.
• 31:57
  They're going to treat those matches with the seriousness
• 32:00
  they require, kind of knowing that they're building towards
• 32:03
  something greater. I mean, to me, it's it's less
• 32:08
  about some of those established players and it's more of like
• 32:12
  the Olivia Smith sure, you know, Homburg, you know, Kyra Green,
• 32:16
  Carl's going to come back. What's that going to look like?
• 32:18
  And it's like it's sort of, you know, Heinz has come in and and,
• 32:24
  you know, spelled some minutes, you know, at the full back
• 32:26
  position. So it's like, is it, is it going
• 32:29
  to be able to coalesce in time? Because I think, you know, you
• 32:32
  see, Kim little Beth Mead had a really good game in this one.
• 32:35
  And she's I mean, like, I really can't credit Beth Mead enough.
• 32:39
  It's so tough to do what she does, which is have your minutes
• 32:43
  yanked around, have your like the appearances he yanked around
• 32:46
  and she comes out and it doesn't matter.
• 32:48
  Like she's so consistent. She's such a problem
• 32:51
  offensively. She's so unpredictable.
• 32:53
  And she's like has such a cool, just way of attacking, like a
• 32:58
  cool unorthodox way of attacking.
• 33:01
  And she's just ready at the drop of a hat.
• 33:03
  She never comes in and it's like, you know, like she's just
• 33:06
  stumbling, getting more. She's just fucking ready.
• 33:08
  Like, and I think it's such a, such a testament to, I mean, her
• 33:12
  professionalism must be at a level where, you know, I mean, I
• 33:18
  can't imagine somebody, you know, out professionalism, out
• 33:21
  professionalizing her just because of what she's able to do
• 33:24
  whenever, whenever she she does get called upon.
• 33:28
  I won't act like I have like a ton of personal insight or
• 33:32
  reporting insight on this, but I, I do believe from like all
• 33:35
  the Lionesses podcasts and things I've listened to over,
• 33:38
  you know, the past two EUR victories.
• 33:41
  It, it certainly feels like she's one of the most respected
• 33:45
  players over there. And I think that that probably
• 33:48
  speaks to your point. I mean when you can do that, you
• 33:52
  are in people's respect, you know, like when you could when
• 33:55
  you show up like that, no matter how many minutes you're getting
• 33:57
  like that, that's how the respect you're kind of gets
• 33:59
  generated. I want to talk about the WSL
• 34:03
  third champs, a team also A5 no victory over Burnley, Manchester
• 34:07
  United. This one was apparently all
• 34:09
  bangers from Manchester United I.
• 34:12
  Mean Jesus, man. I went on, I went on the end
• 34:15
  show and I didn't mean to do this, but I just did 5 or 6
• 34:19
  minutes on Manchester United and I was like, why did I do that?
• 34:21
  Fucking? But I got to give the credit,
• 34:24
  man. Like they're they're playing a
• 34:25
  brand of football. It's like you get it's, it's
• 34:27
  undeniable, it's fun, it's cool. The bangers are just off the
• 34:31
  charts. They're a fun team to watch.
• 34:34
  They're injecting a weird talent all over the pitch and we're
• 34:37
  just like, all right, well, we're going to get good players.
• 34:39
  Throw out there, see what happens.
• 34:42
  Sort of haphazard, but super a super fun watch this season so
• 34:45
  far. Yeah, I mean, you know, they
• 34:48
  they beat the respect out of me in in the Champions League
• 34:52
  League phase. I know we had talked about it
• 34:54
  the the Maya Latissier goal, the opener in this Burnley match.
• 35:00
  I mean, what are we talking about?
• 35:02
  That was a heat seeking missile in the second minute and I was
• 35:06
  just like, OK, I guess we're doing this today then.
• 35:09
  And then Ziggy Ziggyati tries to match it.
• 35:13
  Yeah, pretty much doesn't. I had some.
• 35:15
  I guess I'll read my notes here about the the TCA goal.
• 35:19
  Give me a second. OK.
• 35:23
  Yeah. Here.
• 35:24
  My no. What did I write here?
• 35:26
  Get the fuck out of here with that.
• 35:28
  Yeah, that's about right. That's the appropriate response.
• 35:33
  I could not believe. That and then yeah, the
• 35:35
  Ziggyatioma, Simi Wujo, you know, like the, the you know,
• 35:40
  she, she does the move. I'm sure you've seen this.
• 35:42
  This is the ultimate LA Fitness move where somebody gets a
• 35:46
  rebound right kinda in the paint and then they run back out to
• 35:49
  the three-point line and they shoot a terrible 3 pointer.
• 35:51
  So this is what Simi Wujo does. She gets the ball, runs out,
• 35:54
  runs back in, only she cracks 1. Of course.
• 35:59
  Puts them up three nil. Unbelievable.
• 36:01
  That's what, yeah, because and when you see it at La Fitness or
• 36:05
  whatever local gym run that you're participating in, and
• 36:09
  when, when the person does make it, you're like, oh, now I got
• 36:12
  to suffer through three or four more of those, at least in this
• 36:15
  game. But with a Wujo, Sure, go ahead,
• 36:19
  have at it if you're going to do that.
• 36:20
  And you know, I'd like to see more.
• 36:23
  My my brother and I, when we used to hoop, that was like the
• 36:25
  one thing where we just would not let the other person do
• 36:28
  that, get a rebound. It's off right.
• 36:30
  It's a just I can't do that don't work.
• 36:33
  Leah Schuler scores Manchester United's 4th.
• 36:38
  I meant I also mentioned this on Leanne Sanderson show that like
• 36:41
  another another signing Schuler to to United, like I liked
• 36:46
  Schuler Bayern. There's something about Schuler
• 36:49
  United where it's like she's going to get more space to
• 36:52
  operate. She's going to have those those
• 36:54
  header opportunities. There's going to be big moments.
• 36:57
  They're going to be kind of in matches, many moments in the
• 37:00
  balance. And I think I had mentioned to
• 37:03
  Leanne, like when she's in the air, it's it's kind of majestic.
• 37:07
  And we got a perfect snapshot for that fourth goal.
• 37:10
  You know, ball comes in great elevation, little twist, little
• 37:13
  turn. And the finish was just
• 37:16
  extremely clean. And that's her game.
• 37:18
  I mean, I think she's going to, I think she's going to play
• 37:20
  really, really well for United. I I don't doubt it.
• 37:27
  It was the first thing that I thought of because you talked
• 37:29
  about her ability to score in the air on Leanne Sanders show,
• 37:33
  the women's football show, which everybody should pause this
• 37:36
  podcast immediately, like and subscribe any of Leanne,
• 37:40
  anything Leanne does, but particularly the women's
• 37:43
  football show. You had a great appearance on
• 37:45
  there and look how prescient it was.
• 37:48
  You talk about Leah Schuler scoring in the air.
• 37:50
  She knocks home that header. This one, I think that was the
• 37:54
  announcer said it. It was like her third goal in
• 37:57
  her third match played that was scored from a header.
• 38:02
  And so I mean, she's just been, you know, she's just been
• 38:04
  dunking on fools so lately, and we're just going to have to see
• 38:09
  how how this really progresses. They're they're going to be
• 38:14
  dangerous. There might be, you know, you
• 38:18
  got to you got to have some some disappointments in the in in the
• 38:24
  Champions League before you really kind of become a top tier
• 38:27
  contender. But like we've said, you know,
• 38:30
  pretty much all all season what they only have they only have
• 38:34
  two losses in Champions League play 1 to the mighty SK Brown in
• 38:37
  qualifying. You can't blame them for that.
• 38:40
  They had that. They had another loss mixed in
• 38:42
  there in the league phase, but the addition to Schuler is going
• 38:45
  to make them even more dangerous.
• 38:48
  I can't wait to see what they look like.
• 38:50
  Last quick note in this 116 year old forward from Wales, Layla
• 38:55
  Drury 76th minute. I mean I, I mentioned at the top
• 39:01
  all beggars in this one and I mean Layla Drury.
• 39:05
  Welcome to the party. First appearance for United and
• 39:08
  you know, she, she, she joins the show.
• 39:11
  OK, I'm going to try to do this quickly so we don't have to
• 39:14
  filibuster much. I just texted you a an image.
• 39:19
  This was from Manchester United Women's Football Club's social
• 39:24
  media page. So that's lately jury on the far
• 39:29
  left standing next to Fallon Telus Joyce.
• 39:34
  Fallon Telus Joyce is, depending on where you look, is listed at
• 39:37
  either 511 or 6 feet. And there's Layla, Jury standing
• 39:42
  next to her, clearly taller than her.
• 39:48
  She's towering over everybody Dominique hands and I mean
• 39:50
  everybody. Oh my God, good size, excellent
• 39:57
  size the ball the ball that jury got from a anatomy Zawa that
• 40:03
  just. Dissected the whole pitch.
• 40:05
  First of all, that ball was stupid.
• 40:06
  That would that ball come on, that was unbelievable.
• 40:10
  A banger in and of itself. And then Drury runs onto it.
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  And then what time's it? I'm just like, how do you even
• 40:20
  think that? Imagine like the audacity at
• 40:23
  that age. Be like, yeah, yeah, I know.
• 40:25
  Yeah, I'm wearing. I'm wearing the kid.
• 40:26
  I'm out of here. Make him every DB.
• 40:27
  Let me just let me just crank one.
• 40:29
  Sure. No, I, I couldn't believe it.
• 40:32
  And you know, you and I always do this.
• 40:35
  I was unfamiliar with this player's game.
• 40:39
  And so, you know, to see Drury out there play with that kind of
• 40:43
  confidence at 16 and when she was on the field, I was like,
• 40:47
  whoa, she she's kind of super tall, I think compared to
• 40:50
  everybody out there. And then I went, I just a just a
• 40:53
  quick Google her heights not listed anywhere that I could
• 40:57
  find, but I, it, I found a social media post of somebody,
• 41:03
  you know, mentioning her name and that's what came up with the
• 41:05
  Google search really like she's taller than Valentine's choice.
• 41:09
  I was like, all right, I mean this, this could be some very
• 41:13
  interesting develop development we see from the Welsh youngster.
• 41:19
  Tremendous work by you. We'll try to.
• 41:21
  I think I could drop the the image into the episode to to
• 41:24
  give folks a look at it. The technology.
• 41:27
  A couple other quick things to hit before we get out of here.
• 41:31
  Internet Sionale beats Juventus 21 Europe, the kind of like said
• 41:38
  Juventus reeling a little bit after you've a beat Roma 2 to
• 41:43
  one in this under the same circumstances.
• 41:46
  You know, like a comfort behind when go down one nil and then
• 41:49
  you give up to they did it to Roma and then Inter does it to
• 41:52
  them. Juventus still I I think it
• 41:55
  looks really good, kind of has what they need to make some
• 41:59
  progress in this tournament. But yeah, I mean, not not not a
• 42:02
  result that you want to see, but they did win the Super Cup off.
• 42:04
  So we're kind of like, you know, in a little bit of a holding
• 42:07
  pattern to see, see which which UVA shows up.
• 42:11
  You know, what are they valuing? Like you, like you were talking
• 42:15
  about, like you know, you got the league you have, you have
• 42:19
  the cup. They're they're fourth in the
• 42:20
  league right now. So that loss to United, I got a
• 42:27
  tap way back in the memory banks.
• 42:29
  That was in December, mid-december.
• 42:32
  They need to kind of figure out a way to play their style, get
• 42:37
  the ball to Jarelli in some dangerous areas.
• 42:40
  She had a couple headers for center where Enter's goalkeeper
• 42:44
  made a really, really some really good saves against her.
• 42:47
  And they'll be right there with Wolfsburg.
• 42:49
  So I, you know, the Battle of Linneth Berenstein teams at one
• 42:53
  point, it's not the easiest draw for who they.
• 42:57
  But you're not getting. There are no easy draws in this
• 43:00
  stage of the Champions League. Yeah.
• 43:02
  I think when we talked about that one, either team could
• 43:04
  could take that one for sure. So that I mean get get me to the
• 43:09
  Champions. He's not got stage already.
• 43:10
  I think that I think that's, you know, if we want to Fast forward
• 43:12
  that that's the main take away here and just to kind of round
• 43:15
  it out, Louvin gets a big 5 nil, 5 nil.
• 43:18
  It kind of like the flavor of the this weekend win over I'm
• 43:21
  going to butcher this, I think Vargam in the Belgian Super
• 43:25
  League this past Saturday, Khadiya Dicky Oyster, 17 year
• 43:29
  old forward from Belgium, got cooking, got scoring, scored
• 43:33
  twice in this one and just an excellent player has played well
• 43:38
  in the Champions League. And I think somebody that you
• 43:40
  know, I mean, if the light shines the right way, could have
• 43:44
  a moment versus Arsenal. So a player that will be
• 43:46
  watching for sure. Yeah, Dequoister Kuipers scored
• 43:52
  in that match. Ever arts.
• 43:55
  And look, we've done the reading, we've done our
• 43:58
  homework. Can't find a highlight anywhere
• 44:03
  on these here Internet streets of the Belt and Super League.
• 44:07
  So that's a little tricky. We, we need to get on that, you
• 44:11
  know, and just to, to, to make a note to the Belgian Super
• 44:14
  League. If, if, if you're looking for
• 44:17
  two, you know, international broadcasters and, and you want
• 44:20
  to put some of these matches on television or, or even just put
• 44:23
  them on the Internet, we're available.
• 44:25
  Let us know. We'll promote your league.
• 44:27
  I mean, why not? I've never been to Belgium, but
• 44:31
  big fan, big fan of the Waffles, big fan of Kevin De Bruyne, big
• 44:36
  fan of, of, of Vonsong company. I mean, you know, let's, let's
• 44:42
  go. I mean, we, we, let's make the
• 44:43
  connection. Hell yeah.
• 44:45
  All right, man, I want to hit a quick episode calendar before we
• 44:48
  get out of here. I mean, we're I've mentioned
• 44:51
  episode 200 right around the corner.
• 44:54
  I think I want to also run this by you real quick, so apologies.
• 44:57
  I want to see if we could do some live shows after the
• 44:59
  knockout stage match at some point for the Chambers League.
• 45:02
  We mentioned Patreon. Our YouTube members will get
• 45:06
  special access to these mammoth interviews we've got we've got
• 45:11
  coming down the Pike that we're super pumped about.
• 45:12
  But I also want to see if we can do a couple lives.
• 45:15
  So I'm not going to put you on the spot, but I want to just put
• 45:17
  that on your radar. See if we could circle some days
• 45:20
  in the calendar when after change the action, you know, we
• 45:24
  just fire them up and we invite some of our best, our best, best
• 45:28
  friends to kind of come hang out with us.
• 45:31
  I love it. Count me in.
• 45:33
  I'm going to. I'm going to start start making
• 45:35
  the plans right now. I think some live shows would be
• 45:39
  appreciated by our by all of our pals.
• 45:42
  And you know, it's a good opportunity for us to get some
• 45:46
  knowledge and hear the observations from everybody who
• 45:48
  supports the show. So, you know, I'm always down
• 45:50
  for that. Let's go.
• 45:51
  Hell yeah. All right, let's go.
• 45:52
  Make sure you're subscribed and following your boys on the
• 45:55
  socials. All right, man, I think we did
• 45:57
  it. Is there anything else you would
• 45:58
  hit before we get out of here? I think that's it.
• 46:00
  I will say in our Liga F stuff, I think we kind of glossed over
• 46:04
  Real Madrid's current form. Ateneya just is just firing the
• 46:11
  ball into the net as hard as she possibly can and every
• 46:14
  opportunity. So that looks great.
• 46:18
  You know, Misa has made some pretty incredible saves in the
• 46:20
  last, in the last few matches. And you know, now all your
• 46:24
  friends, all your Madridista friends who might accuse you of
• 46:28
  spending way more time talking about Barcelona than Las
• 46:30
  Blancas. But that's for that's for you to
• 46:33
  deal with. I got you.
• 46:33
  I got your back though. You know I got to throw them off
• 46:36
  the scent a little bit. Little little little little okey
• 46:39
  doke. All right, man, this has been
• 46:41
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• 46:45
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• 46:47
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• 46:50
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• 46:52
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• 46:55
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• 47:01
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• 47:27
  Thanks all the above much much more in the description of this
• 47:29
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• 47:32
  for they can't keep us down for that long man.
• 47:35
  I mean here we are we're back ready to ready to ready to take
• 47:40
  on the year. Nobody I'd rather do with.
• 47:42
  I appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy, nobody can stop
• 47:47
  us. We're we're, we're coming way
• 47:49
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• 47:51
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• 47:53
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• 47:56
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