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NWSL WK 11 Recap ⚡️ Reign Beat Wave | KC, Orlando, Washington, Racing Louisville, Bay FC Get Wins · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  Oh. Kate, welcome to Into the
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  Channel podcast. I'm about women's football.
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  I'm your host, Dino Desuspitas. And as always, I'm joined by my
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  coast, Mr. Grant Angle. What is up man?
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  I'm feeling all right, buddy, as the world continues to look like
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  more and more of an awful place. I've that's a dark start to
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  this. I just want to say at least the
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  football was good. And so we can try to distract
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  ourselves with that. That's the the whole point of
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  this enterprise that we're that we're doing here.
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  So on that note, good to see you my good man.
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  Great to see you as well. And yeah, outside world, totally
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  normal. Just tune it out.
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  Tons of football as long as you can find it on all these various
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  streaming sites. Tons of football to be had this
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  weekend. Sunday night is when we're
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  recording it. Another good, maybe slightly
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  better than good NWSL weekend. What do you think of the of of
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  the site this weekend? I thought, yeah, I'd say better
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  than good. I think I think we hit that
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  mark. Some surprising results, some
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  great goals, some great saves. And just to take people behind
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  the ITC curtain, I think there were a couple matches coming
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  into the week where me and you were like, OK, yeah, we'll see
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  what happens in that one. Not that excited about I put it
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  somewhere in my notes where I was like a couple of these
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  matches really, really surprised me with how entertaining they
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  were. Yeah, I mean, I think, Oh yeah,
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  a lot of them outperformed this week.
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  A lot of different places we can get started with that, said Mr.
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  Grant Engel. Where should we get started?
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  Let's let's forsake chronological order for once.
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  We're going to try to put on our news hats.
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  So we're going to go from what interested, what interested us
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  most. So obviously, in a shocking
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  turn, I'm going to select Seattle Rain 2, Seattle Rain
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  FC2. Pardon me, San Diego Wave FC-1,
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  Speaking of somewhat surprise results.
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  Somewhat surprise results for sure.
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  A little bit of we had a few clashes of some, some good
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  teams. This 122 of the good team, two
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  of the better teams, two teams definitely on the playoff
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  course. Very interesting first half.
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  So San Diego obviously starts extremely fast.
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  You know, I think it took in my notes, I wrote down, I, I felt
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  like it took Seattle maybe 1718 minutes to really get up to the
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  speed of the match. But once they did, it was clear
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  what they were going to try to do.
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  I think they were going to try to kind of defend.
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  And like with all of that firepower that they started with
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  on the bench available as Subs, you kind of start to see, OK,
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  well, like, this is an interesting game that Laura
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  Harvey's playing a little bit more athletic, a little bit more
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  dynamic, a little younger. Don't don't know enough to be
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  kind of nervous in this big spot against a team that's really,
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  you know, coming in on quite a tear.
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  And I thought that strategy paid off huge early in this one.
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  I think you're right. Speaking of getting off to a
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  fast start, we didn't even crack the beverages on Sunday night.
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  Talking about football, we might as well get there.
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  It's gracious. I thought.
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  I felt a little parched. Cheers to you.
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  Cheers, Hydration. Absolutely.
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  Main ingredient is beer or main ingredient in beer is water.
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  Definitely butchered that line. It's all right.
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  We're keeping it moving. So anyway, I'm glad you
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  mentioned Laura Harvey and some of those adjustments because in
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  the post game press conference, she said that she thought San
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  Diego Wave had been the best team in the league this year.
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  And kind of talked about how she was happy with obviously happy
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  with the win, happy with the performance.
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  But she also brought up the way she feels about this roster is
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  that in some spots and maybe a lot of spots, I would have
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  misquote her. But she had said that they need
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  to be a team that kind of sits back, plays a defensive style,
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  but then gets out and runs hard on the counter.
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  And one of the answers she had gave it was a little I believe
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  she gave it to the great Susie Rents of Sounder at Heart Friend
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  of the Show. But she had just kind of gave a
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  little bit of a joke answer when Susie was asking about like
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  controlling the midfield and what was the strategy there.
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  And Laura Harvey started the answer by simply saying run in
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  terms of the advice that she gave to to her squad.
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  So, you know, it seemed like they were just fine with Wave
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  having more than 60% of the ball.
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  And Wave was certainly happy to oblige that, you know, looking
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  at their playing style this season, there were some nervy
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  moments in there, but they they relied on trying to clog up,
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  clog up, clog up some of the channels and then rely on Dickey
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  making some good saves. That's definitely what we saw.
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  We also saw, you know, a Nuralia Montessor in the in the
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  midfield, total Wrecking Ball, not afraid of anything.
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  And I think, you know, it was wild to see that super crunching
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  challenge on Pearl Maroni. That was like very, very
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  borderline for sure. I think, you know, that call
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  could have gone either way. And then obviously the, the, the
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  goal comes minutes later. And I think at at that point you
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  just start to feel like you're, you understand the, the like,
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  the tenor of the match, like, 'cause you know how the wave
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  wants to play. They want to possess, they want
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  to connect passes. They just want to keep you on
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  your heels. And then you kind of honestly, I
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  don't want to play, you know, from the the Laura Harvey tidbit
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  that you mentioned, you know, they want to defend, they want
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  to run and they want to take advantage of those
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  opportunities. And I think, you know, to circle
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  back to the point that I mentioned earlier, the notion of
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  the Subs in this match, Harvey brings on Fishlock, Maddie
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  Dalene, Sam Meza and Lynn Biendolo in that second-half.
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  Lynn Sanders said, I had a great quote about Lynn Biendolo.
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  She said, quote, Lynn shoots on site and quote she just fucking
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  loves. She's awesome.
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  And now I think Lynn's kind of evolved her game a little bit
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  where she also distributes on site and apparently right in the
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  path of of good stuff. And I think those what what
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  she's been able to do passing or shooting on site.
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  I think also playing paying big, big dividends.
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  Yeah, I mean that was just a fantastic play leading to the
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  Adamus goal. Well, we can we'll rewind and
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  talk about the Sally Menti goal, the the opener.
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  But to your point, Lynn Biendolo kind of turning, seeing what was
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  available and shooting that pass up front to Jess Fishlock, who
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  just Leanne gave it its proper due on the telecast of how smart
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  of a play that was by Fishlock to chest it down into the path
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  of Adamus. Like she has a split second to
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  make a decision there and to think of like, you know, not not
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  get in her head of like, do I have to turn?
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  Like, am I going to have to put another touch on this?
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  Whatever it was, just Nope, I'm leaving this off for the kid and
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  she's going to take the ball on goal.
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  We'll see what happens and Adamus little bit of Allen
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  Iverson on the on the crossover. That's a lot of lot of sauce on
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  that and then the confidence to hit the strike.
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  Yeah, I mean, we talked about this show.
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  I'm Maria Adamus. All she does is score really
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  interesting goals at really, really interesting points in the
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  match. But that.
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  Yeah, that was great. Two touches.
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  Yeah. Inside, outside, you know, had
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  the had the defenders, you know, just kind of, you know, swaying
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  in the breeze. And I think, you know, even the
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  first goal, the mentee goal, I thought was the same.
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  You know, that one like same situation.
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  The ball's moving a little bit. You you kind of have the the
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  wave defense kind of chasing. And then you kind of are able to
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  come back across across the keeper and, you know, just
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  basically manipulate the defense, which is just so
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  brilliant because you have the wave that all they want to do is
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  get the ball back and then control the ball, hold the ball.
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  So they're just kind of focusing on getting the ball back and
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  like I think it's like kind of catching that wave defense with
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  something that they don't see coming and then doing it twice.
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  And I think the last point that I'll make on the match was, you
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  know, I kind of came to this one with one eye on Seattle for
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  sure, But but probably an eye and 1/4.
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  And I know that kind of doesn't the math doesn't math on that.
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  But an eye and a quarter on the on this wave team just to kind
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  of see what they would look like at home against a tough defense.
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  But it was clear that Harvey and the rain dictated the terms of
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  the match. You know, and I think in my
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  notes, when Seattle goes up one, I'm like, all right, let's see
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  what this wave team, if this wave team's like a real play off
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  team, they'll equalize. And if they're like a real
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  contender contender, they'll they'll score too, you know, and
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  like they'll they'll take the three points even with 2025
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  minutes with all that firepower. I think I saw that like I think
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  Dolly and Cascarina are both top.
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  They're two of the top 4IN shot, creating actions like some
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  crazy, some crazy like number, and they both played really well
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  in this one. But it turns out it was Seattle.
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  You know, after giving up the equalizer comes back and then
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  jumps ahead on the road. I mean, hugely, hugely
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  impressive. You know, I know that my Seattle
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  enthusiasm hasn't been tongue, you know, tongue in cheek, but I
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  think I've been a little bit over enthusiastic just to, you
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  know, kind of have some fun with it.
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  But I think I think I'm now fully, fully bought in to my own
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  hype, to my own hype machine. This team's good man.
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  And I, I think they don't have like the, the traditional, you
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  know, amazing front front attacking unit to be able to
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  score, But I think everywhere else they're solid enough.
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  And my, my real question is how far could this team go in a
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  knockout round considering those limitations And considering,
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  hey, it's knockout football out, the different things can happen.
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  I know we're getting ahead of ourselves, but I'm, I'm curious,
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  from what you've watched, where do you think this team's at?
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  I mean, you know what? So we've played eleven matches.
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  I think we're somewhere around like the 41 or 42% of the way
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  through the season mark. The only teams that have scored
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  fewer goals than Seattle Rain FC who have scored 11 on the season
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  are the Utah Royals with 10, the Houston Dash with 10, and the
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  Chicago Stars with eight. Those would be the bottom three
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  teams in the league. Now on the bright side, the only
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  teams who have allowed fewer goals than Seattle Rain FC who
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  have allowed ten are the Kansas City Current 8 and the Orlando
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  Pride 8, which are the top 2 teams in the table.
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  So they need that, that great defense, they need to, you know,
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  great shot stopping, you know, catching crosses, catching
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  aerial balls from Claudia Dickey.
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  They need that organized defense who won't be afraid to to play
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  physical when they need to. But you know, if you look at if
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  you look at a ceiling for a team that has a real difficult time
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  scoring, it's probably the, you know, the first round of the
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  playoffs or, you know, maybe you maybe you nick 1 and make it to
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  the to the semi final round. But you know, it's still, it's
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  still early enough, but it's still a great accomplishment for
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  a team that was playing a lot of a lot of young players.
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  I do. I want to comment on Sally
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  Menti. You mentioned her goal before we
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  move on to the to the next, to the next match.
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  Seattle Rain FC supporters may be singing.
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  She's one of our own. She's one of our own.
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  She is from Seattle. She attended Roosevelt High
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  School, which at this time of night with little to no traffic,
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  is probably a less than 20 minute drive from where I'm
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  sitting right now. So she's from, from Seattle,
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  looks good out there and looked confident.
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  And in the, in the in the post game press conference, Laura
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  Harvey mentioned she likes kind of her, her attitude and her
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  sense of humor. And Harvey mentioned that when
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  she's drawing up plays on the whiteboard, she's she's using
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  players initials. And now obviously there are
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  times where she's drawing up a play and you have Sam Meza out
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  there and Sally Menti. So because obviously Meza's more
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  established Laura, Harvey asked Sally Menti, what initials do
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  you want me to use on the whiteboard?
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  And Sally Menti apparently said just put KDB, which is just so
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  great. I just absolutely love that.
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  And so and Laura Harvey kind of jokingly pointed out the way she
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  got the ball on the right foot outside of the 18 and hit that
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  banger looked a little bit like Kevin Debruyne.
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  I believe it. Yep, Great first goal for Mentee
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  for sure. What a way to crack the seal.
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  Huge win for Seattle. They move up to I mean, they
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  feel like they had a pretty big now I I guess they're up to 5th
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  right Seattle the wave fall from 2nd to 4th.
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  One last quick note on the wave Trinity Armstrong.
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  I know you've got your own, you know, superlative future star.
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  You know, centre back in Jordan bug as well.
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  But Armstrong unbelievable player just the same.
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  You know, I think still not yet 18.
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  I don't think so good that San Diego can totally play a back
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  three like no problem. And I know they're they're going
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  against that Seattle attack, but the future, I mean the ceiling
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  is like, I mean, it's hard to even see like I'm not I'm
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  looking at them like is that like Virgil Van?
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  Like like what are we really talking about with a player?
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  I mean, she's she's really incredible 1 to watch for sure.
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  I think she'll definitely be on that senior team radar.
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  I mean, before we know it here, I mean could be 27.
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  I mean she could be trending in that in that direction.
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  I think she's that good, but I do want to scoot ahead this next
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  match. Boy was in the building AFC won
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  Portland thorns nil. You know when I'm in the
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  building, I'm not sure if this is a trend.
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  I'm going to have to go back and look at this, but I mean, all
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  these teams twos would would would when when I pop my head
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  in. But in all seriousness, huge
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  performance, you know, another defensive, you know, not quite
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  master class, but a really strong showing from Bay FC.
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  Very similar approach to what Laurie Laura Harvey did kind of
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  bend but don't break against a pretty high-powered Portland
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  offense. I think watching Portland live
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  and in person, the first thing you notice that Moultrie Coffee
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  Sugita midfield is an absolute torture chamber.
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  Yeah, yeah, 100%. And but Bay FC were kind of able
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  to to withstand it. I mean, it felt like even with
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  Portland's, you know, but they had twelve shots, 4 on target in
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  the first half. Like it it felt like they had
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  Bay on their heels a little bit, but you guys were just a little
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  a little relentless with it, which I thought was good.
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  Like, like we've talked about this Bay team where, you know,
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  I've doubted the defense and last season there was good
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  reason to doubt the defense for long stretches.
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  But to see him kind of like fight through it in this match
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  made me perk up an eyebrows like is, is something changing over
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  there? Well, for for one, Milan's son
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  was awesome and Caprice Didasco on the other side also awesome.
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  Like Didasco specifically barely did anything wrong.
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  Like it seems like she connected every pass, was in every right
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  position defensively, provided great help when it was needed,
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  you know, because they needed to kind of double.
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  Because I thought like Moultrie specifically is like, you know,
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  you know, you leave the door just slightly ajar and she's
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  just busting through it. Like, you know, like the like
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  the kool-aid, the kool-aid character.
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  I mean, she's just insane. And then coffee as well.
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  Coffee is like all energy, really hard to deal with
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  physically super strong, faster I think than than she looks.
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  And I think she's carried over some of that.
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  Like, you know, let me hone my offensive skills further up
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  field into the club team. And then yeah, right before
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  halftime, Alyssa Milan. Oh my gosh, Elizabeth Milan's on
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  just smacks 1. Like, you know, just runs right
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  onto it. Also her first goal as an N.W.A
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  seller. So what an incredible way to to
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  kind of make that happen as well.
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  BAE goes up one NIL and they go into halftime up a goal in.
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  And I asked, you know, Coach Montoya about this after having
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  been kind of thoroughly outplayed in that first half,
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  you know, just to listen to the channel coaching.
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  Congrats on the big win. You could probably make the case
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  that Portland had the better first half.
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  Can you talk about what the conversation was at halftime?
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  And then obviously you make that big wave of Subs 72nd minute and
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  now all of a sudden playing on the front foot as well.
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  Can you talk a little bit about what the second-half game plan
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  was? Well.
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  It's interesting, the first half that we were did a very good job
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  limiting their midfield. That was the key.
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  And then of course Kya Hanks on the side, on the left side was
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  creating all sorts of opportunities.
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  They weren't clear chances, but they were quite dangerous.
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  So we just made an adjustment, making sure that we're a little
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  bit tighter, we're doubling and supporting and that's where you
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  saw Rachel Hill coming back, you saw Canel be coming back.
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  And the message was the discipline needs to be there
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  because we were good, but we knew we could be that much
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  better. Continue to deny the midfield
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  space, but make sure that we now double on the wings and that's
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  what we did. And then they become a little
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  bit predictable and playing long balls and then their midfield
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  had to go and drop all the way back to get the goal out of the
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  ball. Perfectly fine with us if they
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  have to drop all the way to their back line.
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  So just we limited air space in the middle and we were tighter
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  in the wings. Can you talk quickly about the
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  Oshawa minutes? She's been the last three weeks
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  of practice has been one of the best players on the field.
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  And that's our job as the coaches and as a staff to reward
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  players that do that. And it's just been it's, it's
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  actually the best that I've seen her play with us.
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  So she earned it to serve set. And it's going to be some tough
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  decisions for next week. Now that we've got Z and we've
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  got Rudy and we still have colleague that's continuously
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  develop. I mean, it's, it's a good
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  problem to have them. But Chris and I'm really happy
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  for us and staff. Obviously, I'm going to go out
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  on a limb here. I agree with Montoya about Asisa
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  Oshwala. I thought she looks she looks
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  good. We I've been out here asking the
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  question like, would you, why wouldn't you give Kununji and
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  Oshwala a run at the same time? And some of our pals in the chat
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  have pointed out like Oshwala hasn't looked great through
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  through some of these stretches. It seems like in this match, she
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  she looked more like herself. Well, what did you see from
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  being in the building? I thought.
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  You know, kind of like up for it offensively, you know, wanted
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  wanted to, wanted to make those runs, you know, wanted to
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  encourage, you know, distribution upfield, you know,
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  where you just kind of start the run.
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  You do, you do the point, you make the well, you know, like
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  you make the little sound to to let them know that you, you
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  know, you need the ball and was aggressive when she got looks,
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  you know, and I think she puts a a rocket up the crossbar in the
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  9th a couple other shots. And this is a player that, you
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  know, I I don't think had logged a shot in like a crazy amount
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  of, you know, a minute. I think she was like in the 200
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  minute area without logging a shot.
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  So it's just kind of good to to see her, you know, get off the
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  the shot, snide there. And she definitely had an effect
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  on opening things up for like Taylor huff behind her and some
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  of the other attacking players, you know, to to be able to make
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  stuff happen. And then obviously, you know,
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  Milan gets the goal and and we get maybe the worst goal call of
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  the NWSL season we get. So you're obviously in the
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  building for that. I'm watching it from home.
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  You know it. It took me, I'll say it did take
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  me a second to realize that the ball was in the back of the net
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  because it was, it was, it was a weird angle.
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  It was a tough angle from Alonso, which makes the shot
• 20:12
  even better. As you pointed out.
• 20:14
  It's a great shot from her. She roofs it.
• 20:17
  And it's just like one of those where you're like, wait, is that
• 20:19
  did that hit like on top of the net or like, is it, you know,
• 20:22
  did it like tear him off the side or whatever?
• 20:24
  Is it like a one of those weird looking ones?
• 20:26
  And aside from that view, it was difficult for me to discern what
• 20:33
  happened based on the commentary.
• 20:36
  Well, I'll tell you what happened.
• 20:38
  The ball was, and I quote, driven across long pause and
• 20:43
  then San Jose mini pause is rocking on that goal.
• 20:50
  End Quote. That was what I heard, yes.
• 20:51
  That's what happened. That's what you missed.
• 20:53
  So hopefully that clarified it for anybody that missed it, that
• 20:57
  really pieced everything together.
• 20:59
  But no, in all seriousness, I think I think the team is maybe
• 21:04
  broadcasting remote, which could make it a little trickier if
• 21:07
  you're trying to watch it on TV and figure out, OK, is it doing,
• 21:09
  what am I actually looking at? You don't get the the the crowd
• 21:12
  reaction from being in the building, I believe.
• 21:15
  And you know, at the end of the day, I, I've said, I don't know,
• 21:18
  maybe thousands or maybe 10s of thousands of things incorrectly
• 21:23
  at this point in my podcasting career.
• 21:25
  So, so who am I to talk really? But that one was a pretty rough
• 21:27
  that one, that one, that one won't won't make the the Dazone
• 21:31
  package, the written in the stars Dazone package.
• 21:35
  Yeah, not quite, but no, it is, it is a great point.
• 21:38
  I mean, especially if the team is broadcasting remotely, I
• 21:42
  could see why there was maybe a little bit of hesitation there.
• 21:46
  It was just, it was, it was kind of jarring the way the call
• 21:49
  happened though. It was like, especially after it
• 21:51
  happened, I was like, oh, wait, that's a goal.
• 21:53
  And then once you see the replay, you're just like, oh,
• 21:55
  it's not just a goal, it's a banger.
• 21:57
  Like it's an absolute laser by Malonson.
• 22:01
  So, you know, that's unfortunate, but I'm sure JP
• 22:06
  Dellacamera will get him next time.
• 22:09
  Yeah, I'm sure he will. Yeah, big win for Bay.
• 22:11
  As mentioned, they move up to 8th now they're 4-3 and four,
• 22:16
  they've won two of their last three, two straight clean sheets
• 22:18
  at home and they move up from 11th place into 8th, as
• 22:22
  mentioned, just one point behind 7th place Portland Thorns.
• 22:28
  So yeah, playoff race kind of heating up.
• 22:30
  There was there was some talk on the on on one telecast, I can't
• 22:33
  quite remember on whether oh actually it might have been Mike
• 22:36
  and Leanne we're talking about. Is it too early to talk about
• 22:37
  playoffs? And I think Leanne kind of was
• 22:39
  like, yeah, I mean, come on, get real.
• 22:41
  But I mean, she needs to get real.
• 22:44
  We we talked playoffs after like 2-3 weeks.
• 22:46
  Start looking at this come. On man.
• 22:49
  But Leanne, have you considered if the season ended today?
• 22:52
  I mean. It's a fair exercise.
• 22:55
  Fair exercise always. Any who.
• 22:59
  OK. So yeah, they took care of
• 23:00
  business. Very impressive.
• 23:02
  Let's move ahead. Another one of my teams, maybe
• 23:05
  my team. Former team.
• 23:08
  Our team, our team at the very least, it's slowly, slowly
• 23:13
  moving my way more and more every day just for our pal at
• 23:17
  Astra. Just keep in mind where Dino was
• 23:19
  while Orlando Pride was playing, the use of Dash and what I was
• 23:24
  watching live. As is to say for the record.
• 23:27
  I'm just picturing that the fat mob possession possession
• 23:32
  graphic sliding your way. Anywho, pride pride one Dashnell
• 23:38
  Orlando's attack, I think look look really potent in this one
• 23:41
  for the first time in a good while. 22 shots, 8 on target.
• 23:44
  That's the most since the week when opener versus Chicago
• 23:48
  crosses 32 to 11 for the Pride corners 11 to one for the Pride
• 23:52
  as well. 10 different player, 10 different players for the Pride.
• 23:55
  Attempted a shot 7 with a shot on target.
• 23:58
  The thing that I was most excited about, in addition to
• 24:02
  just kind of like committing more players to the breakaway,
• 24:05
  and I think this is where Seb Hines kind of earns his paycheck
• 24:08
  because this is an offense totally sputtering, not really
• 24:13
  kind of able to get it right. So what does he do?
• 24:16
  You get the Houston Dash coming to town A-Team.
• 24:18
  That's not the most frightening offensively or defensively.
• 24:23
  And your response is I'm not going to start Banda, I'm not
• 24:26
  going to start Marta, I'm not going to start Angelina.
• 24:28
  I'm going to give a whole new attacking unit the opportunity
• 24:33
  to kind of go out, cut their teeth, get minutes, develop some
• 24:36
  chemistry because I think those players, Banda and Marta
• 24:39
  specifically, are. So, I mean, Marta is larger than
• 24:43
  life, Banda almost there there. We're kind of spitting hairs on
• 24:50
  what we're talking about here. It it is tough, you know, for
• 24:53
  players to kind of rotate around them, whether it's a Julie Doyle
• 24:56
  or Ali Wah limos, like you take your pick and like now you've
• 25:00
  got to kind of slot in and you you've got Marta here and Banda
• 25:03
  here and you've got a you you have to deliver.
• 25:05
  Not saying that you can't, but you're not really playing
• 25:09
  freely, right? And I think what Zeb did in this
• 25:11
  one is like, let's put these players out and now it's just
• 25:14
  just go. You don't have to get the ball
• 25:16
  to band to Emil. You don't have to get it to find
• 25:18
  Marta. Emil, get her the ball.
• 25:19
  Like just cook. Just play.
• 25:21
  Just find, find opportunities, find chemistry.
• 25:24
  And I thought first half a little slow.
• 25:27
  Second-half really got cooking but I but I loved the approach
• 25:30
  from Heinz there. Yeah, yeah, I, I think it's a,
• 25:34
  it's an interesting point to make.
• 25:36
  I mean, obviously coming off of international duty, there were a
• 25:40
  lot of decisions to be made and people you want to try to
• 25:43
  protect and you know, you need to rotate your roster.
• 25:45
  We saw it in a bunch of the matches all across the league.
• 25:50
  I honestly, Laura Harvey, real quick to rewind, Laura Harvey
• 25:53
  mentioned this in her press conference as well that teams
• 25:57
  players coming off international break that may have played on a
• 26:00
  Tuesday should not be playing in Friday matches.
• 26:04
  I thought, I thought you were spot on there.
• 26:05
  I totally agree. I think you should have at least
• 26:07
  like 3 days, like 3 full calendar days before you play
• 26:11
  again. So like, you know, managers were
• 26:15
  just left to like make some decisions and consider travel
• 26:18
  and all that. But to your point, I I like like
• 26:22
  well, maybe alongside your point, I liked what Houston Dash
• 26:26
  did in that first half where, you know, they on their side
• 26:30
  too. They didn't have to deal with
• 26:32
  larger than life the greatest player, whoever lived Marta and
• 26:35
  one of the greatest players alive right now, you know, in
• 26:37
  their prime, Barbara Benda. So like they they were able to
• 26:40
  hold it to 5050 possession in that first half like they were
• 26:44
  when it was Orlando Pride had six shots to Houston Dash's 4,
• 26:49
  but he's but Houston was able to have two shots on target to
• 26:52
  prides want like they were they were holding their own out
• 26:54
  there. 22 year old Swede Evelina Doujon.
• 26:59
  She like corralled a corner kick like at the far post and played
• 27:02
  it across the face. And I was like, OK, Houston's
• 27:04
  they're doing something out there.
• 27:05
  Like they didn't have Avery Patterson, but the cavalry came
• 27:10
  on after halftime and Orlando pride started looking a little
• 27:15
  more Orlando pride ish from that double winning season.
• 27:18
  I'm not saying all the way there, I'm just saying at least
• 27:21
  in that direction. Yeah, I mean, I think just look
• 27:25
  at, I'm going to, I'm going to recount a couple of the couple
• 27:27
  of stats that I think I I fixated on the most 10 different
• 27:30
  players attempted a shot, 7 with a shot on target.
• 27:34
  You know, and I think like the the, you know, you're just
• 27:37
  looking at the two of the players I'm looking at are like
• 27:39
  Lemos and Summer Yates, obviously Julie Doyle working
• 27:42
  way back. Ali Watt.
• 27:43
  We already, we already know like maybe what her role is and I
• 27:46
  kind of what her capabilities are.
• 27:48
  But Lemos and Yates very I was very curious about what they
• 27:51
  were going to be able to do. I thought they were impressive.
• 27:53
  But yeah, when when ITC Hall of Famer Corey Dyke steps on the
• 27:56
  pitch, you know, and replaces Carrie Abella, one of the
• 27:59
  players that logs some big time US women's at 15 minutes.
• 28:04
  Some changes were in the air. I'm going to read you a couple
• 28:06
  stats, you know, from the legend.
• 28:09
  How about completing 35 of 36 passes, 45 minutes.
• 28:13
  The just missed a single long pass, which FB ref qualifies as
• 28:18
  a pass over 30 yards. So yeah, we'll we'll cut her
• 28:21
  some slack there and six shot creating actions for Corey Dyke.
• 28:25
  And that was all on the way to just burying the winner in, in a
• 28:29
  match that I would say they they they need.
• 28:34
  I, I think Orlando needed this result, but I think more so they
• 28:38
  definitely, definitely had earned this goal from the, you
• 28:41
  know, like the just the pressure and, you know, the, the, the
• 28:45
  potency of their offense, you know, over the course of the
• 28:47
  day. Yeah, I think that's that's
• 28:50
  totally true. And you know, you obviously talk
• 28:52
  about friend of the show, Corey Dyke, ITC Hall of Famer Corey
• 28:56
  Dyke. We we mentioned it on Blue Sky
• 28:58
  who joined us like right as the play offs, I think it was right
• 29:02
  before the quarter final was super generous for their time
• 29:05
  and super cool, super cool with us.
• 29:08
  So it was it was nice to see what happened at the end of this
• 29:11
  match. But part of Orlando's identity
• 29:15
  is was ratcheting up the defense as well.
• 29:18
  So according to our pals at at foot mob, Houston Dash's
• 29:22
  accurate pass percentage in the first half was 87%.
• 29:27
  It dropped to 79% in the second-half as they were losing
• 29:32
  the possession battle to it was 5050 in the first half and it
• 29:35
  was 6238 in favor of Orlando Pride in the second-half.
• 29:39
  So they just started to tighten those screws and like I said,
• 29:42
  play more Orlando Pride type of football.
• 29:45
  And you know, I want to credit Abby Smith.
• 29:48
  She had her, she had to have a nice performance in that
• 29:52
  second-half. Real nice.
• 29:56
  She had a big time performance, had a lot of work to do.
• 30:00
  You know, I think what end up with 77 saves off of eight shots
• 30:06
  on target and then was absolutely devastated when the
• 30:09
  final ball goes through. She kind of like just slams the
• 30:12
  floor with two hands and that one hurt to see just because she
• 30:16
  put in such a monster effort. And then you walk away from this
• 30:19
  one with with no points. That's definitely tough.
• 30:22
  And then also went to call out Anna Morehouse.
• 30:24
  Congratulations for the call up. You already know what time it
• 30:27
  is. That was a goal that Anna
• 30:30
  Morehouse set out prior to the season.
• 30:32
  So congratulations on on hitting that and going to be excited to
• 30:37
  watch you here in a few weeks when the EUR kind of get
• 30:40
  cooking. And then Emily Sam's completes
• 30:42
  90.1% of her passes on the day, including 51 to 52 medium range
• 30:47
  passes, 9 passes to the final Thor final third to lead the
• 30:52
  team, leads the team in touches, leads the team in tackles, just
• 30:56
  all around badass. I mean, I think just I think one
• 31:01
  of the better Sam's games I think that we've seen this
• 31:03
  season. So, you know, a a good a good
• 31:07
  opponent for your defence to kind of round into form.
• 31:10
  But all you could do is kind of play the team in front of you
• 31:13
  and get it done. And then yeah, it was just just
• 31:14
  excited to see the pride of grab a late winner here.
• 31:18
  Yeah, and I think, I mean, you mentioned it with Guermo when we
• 31:21
  were talking about the US women's national team.
• 31:23
  But when you're centre back, when they just have like a
• 31:26
  quiet, consistent performance and you don't have to say like,
• 31:30
  man, they made goal saving tackle after goal saving tackle,
• 31:34
  it's usually even you're in better shape because your center
• 31:37
  back is just being a dominant defensive player and trying to
• 31:41
  snuff out those things before things get too dangerous.
• 31:46
  So yeah, good, good performance all around.
• 31:47
  Obviously on on the Corey Dyke goal.
• 31:51
  Unfortunate for for Abby Smith. It takes a ricochet off a long
• 31:55
  time Canadian international Sophie Schmidt to, you know, not
• 31:59
  really give Abby Smith any chance at at saving it.
• 32:02
  So it's a bummer for them. It's obviously a bummer for the
• 32:05
  world's greatest Houston Dash supporter, Big X, the hug on on
• 32:09
  blue sky, Mr. GOOOG and other parts of the Internet.
• 32:14
  So sorry. Sorry for that, pal.
• 32:16
  Did you know hate that it had to happen to you, but obviously
• 32:19
  this is a pro Corey Dyke podcast.
• 32:21
  It's pro Orlando pride podcast. It's it's unfortunate that one
• 32:25
  of our pals had to be caught in the crossfire.
• 32:27
  I want to just ask a quick question.
• 32:29
  Orlando pride 19 goals 4 after 11 matches this year.
• 32:36
  At this point last year, how many goals 4 do you think they
• 32:40
  had? I'll say 23.
• 32:46
  Close only 20, just one more, which it's it's funny, you know,
• 32:53
  they they started the season. I'm going to try to do this from
• 32:55
  memory. I think it was they started with
• 32:57
  three straight draws and then I think it was a sixth match
• 33:01
  winning streak somewhere in there.
• 33:05
  I know that she got started before Benda got there.
• 33:08
  I think she got there 8th, 8th or 9th match somewhere around
• 33:11
  that good so. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:17
  Sorry. So I just think, you know, we
• 33:19
  think about like this dominant double winning season.
• 33:22
  They were invincible for so long.
• 33:24
  It just kind of made me chuckle that I was like, OK, one more
• 33:27
  goal for than compared to last year Orlando Pride.
• 33:31
  As we sit here today, they have eight goals allowed after 11
• 33:35
  matches this year. At the same point last year,
• 33:40
  what would you guess? How many goals did they allow
• 33:45
  after 11 matches? After 11, I'll say 610.
• 33:52
  Whoa. Yeah, they gave up most of their
• 33:55
  goals early in the season. I was surprised by that too.
• 33:59
  I, I looked at the math three times, man.
• 34:02
  And so please, anybody in the chat, if I butchered that,
• 34:05
  please let me know. But I believe their 11th match
• 34:08
  was, it was against the Portland Thorns, their first fixture
• 34:11
  against them before obviously the weird one that ended the
• 34:14
  Invincible season. But yeah, they had already given
• 34:17
  up 10 to that point. And then I think as we got way
• 34:20
  late in the season, they were only at like 14.
• 34:23
  That's when that's when Morehouse started to really rack
• 34:26
  up the clean sheets. Yeah, I think I remember 13
• 34:29
  really late. Yeah.
• 34:32
  Absolutely. So I mean, not too far behind
• 34:35
  the pace, but this is one of those things where like the
• 34:38
  numbers, the numbers are the numbers, but we also watch the
• 34:41
  games, bro. So we're kind of seeing how this
• 34:43
  is shaking out. They're not as dominant as they
• 34:45
  were last year, but it is important to remember that they
• 34:48
  kind of ramped up to it last year too.
• 34:50
  So it'll be interesting to see how the how the season
• 34:53
  progresses. Yep, great point.
• 34:55
  Another great reminder that and I think yeah, at this point last
• 34:57
  season, Kansas City current was the definitely the talk of the
• 35:01
  year and it was pretty much who's going to finish in second.
• 35:05
  It became most of the discussion.
• 35:07
  Speaking of those Kansas City current, how about Gotham one,
• 35:12
  Kansas City two big result for Kansas City.
• 35:16
  Gotham teetering dangerously on the in the pretender category in
• 35:22
  one another age-old game of contender.
• 35:24
  Whereas pretender. Where should we start with this
• 35:27
  one? I got to tell you what a
• 35:31
  professional Segway by you to go from Kansas City and then into
• 35:35
  the Kansas City match San Jose is rocking from that Segway that
• 35:40
  you just gave. That's professional broadcaster
• 35:43
  stuff. So appreciate that so.
• 35:47
  Gotham, I don't know, man. The Bats, I'm I'm not selling my
• 35:52
  stock yet. The first goal they give up,
• 35:56
  it's on a bad mistake. It's on a it's on a let me make
• 36:00
  sure from my notes here. Yeah, it was, it was the Sonic
• 36:05
  giveaway. And I just want to point out
• 36:07
  that in the broadcast angle from that, when Sonnet gives the ball
• 36:12
  away, there were 4 teal shirts in the picture and three black
• 36:18
  Gotham shirts in the picture. And it didn't look like Sonnet
• 36:21
  in that moment. And maybe, and I don't think she
• 36:24
  really had like a great opportunity.
• 36:25
  It would have made maybe been tricky, but she wasn't even
• 36:27
  looking at on Cotchin Berger like as like my 4th, you know,
• 36:32
  my fourth option to have back there or my third option really.
• 36:36
  So, you know, it ends up falling to Tim Watchwing of the the
• 36:41
  reigning league MVP, who dishes it to Michelle Cooper, a member
• 36:45
  of the US women's national team. That's unfortunate.
• 36:48
  You're in big trouble when you do that.
• 36:50
  So their first goal is off a bad mistake and then the second goal
• 36:54
  you just got beat on that goal. So it's it's just kind of like
• 36:59
  it's not just you're playing super poorly.
• 37:02
  It's like you're for Gotham. If you're looking at this, are
• 37:05
  are you concerned that you're playing a team that just might
• 37:08
  be better than you? It's interesting.
• 37:11
  I mean, this match probably swung the most wildly where it's
• 37:16
  like, all right, is this team better?
• 37:18
  How good is this team? How good is that?
• 37:19
  How not good is this team? And this was a very confusing
• 37:22
  match, you know, even from the outset, like when Kansas City
• 37:25
  jumped out to the two goal lead. I also want to call out, you
• 37:29
  know, it's kind of easy to pile on Emily Sana in that moment,
• 37:33
  but you know, and shout out to the NW.
• 37:37
  So producers when we do these replays, I need a little bit
• 37:40
  more than just the the the the boot going through the ball and
• 37:43
  then the ball going in the net. Like there's so much important
• 37:46
  lead up shit happening. And it's like it'd be nice to
• 37:49
  just kind of see how these pieces are going to, you know,
• 37:51
  happen. A very important moment here.
• 37:54
  Neely Martin's got the ball and BIA is sort of lingering one of
• 38:00
  those teal jerseys in the in the mix.
• 38:03
  And as Neely Martin's going to get it back to Ketchenberger,
• 38:07
  Bea's just close enough to kind of like scare her.
• 38:11
  And right as the motion starts, Bea dart into the passing lane
• 38:14
  and it would have been an an instant goal.
• 38:17
  And then Neely Martin kind of pivots and then takes a touch
• 38:20
  upfield to kind of like she's like, Oh, no, I'm not going to
• 38:22
  go back to burger. I'm going to go upfield.
• 38:24
  And that starts the whole domino effect.
• 38:27
  And then seconds later chewing goes on the ball and it's like
• 38:30
  so like you could look at Sonit. Sonit was the one that got the
• 38:32
  last touch, but that would that whole, you know, sequence was an
• 38:37
  absolute mess defensively. And I think even 510 seconds
• 38:40
  before Son, it was pointing the other way.
• 38:42
  She didn't want to go back to Ketchenberg.
• 38:44
  She's like, look, like we'd like come on, let's not be dumb here.
• 38:48
  Yeah, the goal, the goal happens like 30 seconds later.
• 38:52
  And then, yeah, just a few minutes after that, they're down
• 38:54
  too, but then kind of cooled off and.
• 38:58
  And Gotham maybe slid into the driver's seat of this match.
• 39:01
  I mean, I mean, I don't know what was your take, you know, on
• 39:04
  the kind of like the the bounce of power here.
• 39:06
  You know, I think there was Gotham had their chances, but
• 39:10
  they one of the things that I wrote like in my notes during
• 39:13
  the match is that they just couldn't really get out of their
• 39:15
  own way in some spots. So Sonnet misses a header that's
• 39:20
  pretty close. I mean, if she's not standing on
• 39:23
  the the the top line of the six yard box, like she's standing
• 39:26
  very close to it, misses the header wide.
• 39:29
  That's going to happen sometime. Then on a corner kick, she fouls
• 39:32
  the absolute hell out of Claire Hutton on the corner kick and
• 39:35
  then but knocks home the header. But in typical sonnet style,
• 39:39
  which we love her for this for the US women's national team is
• 39:42
  like looking at the ref like what you're saying I did what
• 39:47
  now when you see the replay and she's two hands shoving Hutton
• 39:50
  to the ground before she headers it.
• 39:53
  Like you could tell like as soon as as soon as it happened from
• 39:56
  the angle I was like, OK, clear. I am the obnoxious guy.
• 40:00
  I try not to like yell and scream during the matches.
• 40:02
  But as that one happened, I simply said clear foul on Sonnet
• 40:07
  like that was very obvious. Yeah, no, that one and and that
• 40:12
  one was a the first in a sequence of two or three calls
• 40:17
  that go against Gotham and and like sort of high leverage
• 40:21
  moments, you know, maybe a handball, maybe A and I don't
• 40:25
  think any of them were egregiously incorrect, but they
• 40:28
  just kept mounting. It's like, you know, bad juju
• 40:32
  and bad karma. She was like, Jesus, how many
• 40:34
  times do we have to like score a goal or, or nearly score a goal
• 40:38
  to kind of make this work? And it's so funny because with
• 40:40
  all of that, all of the you know, the the ref talk and like
• 40:44
  the, you know, the fouls and you know what?
• 40:46
  What was this with the potential VARI?
• 40:47
  Think we had a couple different VARSI think I heard of VAR chant
• 40:51
  at one point. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:54
  Like what? I heard the same.
• 40:55
  I mean, talk about, you know, just not being able to recognize
• 40:59
  what what world we're living in. I mean, that's that's just moves
• 41:02
  to the top of the list. But the the wildest result here,
• 41:06
  the XG in this game. Well, the final score 2 to one
• 41:11
  Kansas City XG Kansas City 22.0, Gotham 1.0.
• 41:18
  So we've got we got like perfect.
• 41:20
  It's like the like a solar eclipse, just perfect alignment,
• 41:23
  the sun and the moon. And I don't know for for for one
• 41:27
  brief moment, you know, the nerds and the the the the eye
• 41:31
  test watchers of the games row can can can enjoy football arm
• 41:34
  in arm and agree that this one was in fact 2 to one to the
• 41:38
  current. I like, I like the idea of the
• 41:41
  nerds being like, Yep, saw it the whole way, expected it,
• 41:44
  expected the two current goals, expected the Gotham goal.
• 41:49
  That's how that works. You know what I saw with my eye?
• 41:52
  Two goals to the current, one to Gotham.
• 41:56
  XG equals real G. It's beautiful.
• 42:02
  Where do you wait? Yeah, I don't know.
• 42:05
  I mean, could you do we leave it at that?
• 42:06
  Let me just say something about the bats.
• 42:09
  So I I think you're right. Like obviously there was the
• 42:11
  Ester offside call. Jace played the ball in there
• 42:14
  was a header from Ellie Wheeler that like goes back to Ester.
• 42:19
  We've talked about it's like law 11 and the and the international
• 42:24
  football rules that like if it's, if it's like a deliberate
• 42:29
  play to like play the ball to somebody else, then Esther
• 42:34
  wouldn't have been offside. But it this one was waved off
• 42:36
  because it was not a deliberate play.
• 42:38
  It's just, it's basically just Ellie Wheeler just getting
• 42:41
  contact on the ball and not trying to play to anybody in
• 42:43
  particular. She's just trying to clear.
• 42:45
  So when because Esther was at an offside position when that pass
• 42:48
  was played in, just because Wheeler touches it doesn't make
• 42:52
  Ester back on side, so that gets waved off.
• 42:56
  But obviously nobody's thinking about Law 11 from the crowd.
• 43:01
  So yeah, you start the VAR chance and you start booing the
• 43:04
  referee. I just want to say even with
• 43:07
  some of that stuff, so you know, maybe some you could say if
• 43:11
  you're Gotham, you're unlucky, etcetera, etcetera.
• 43:13
  You can't have too many more Not Our day type of performances
• 43:18
  right now. They're three wins, 3 draws, 5
• 43:20
  losses. You need Rose Lavelle to round
• 43:23
  into form for the last 57% of the season or whatever's left.
• 43:27
  You need Midge Purse to continue coming back from her injury.
• 43:32
  She's played limited minutes since coming back, about 330
• 43:36
  minutes of the available 990. She looked like she picked up a
• 43:40
  knock toward the end of the match.
• 43:41
  Hopefully it's not too serious. I haven't seen anything as of
• 43:44
  yet, but it's it's not quite nervous time for Gotham FC, but
• 43:51
  they go to Utah for a Friday night match next week.
• 43:55
  They're then they're at home for your Bay FC before the July
• 43:59
  break. That's a no.
• 44:02
  And then and then when they return from the international
• 44:05
  break, they play at Chicago. I think if you're the bats in
• 44:09
  that, in that three match stretch, you got to try to, you
• 44:14
  got to get at least six points to keep yourself in this thing.
• 44:19
  They're definitely on the out. You know, I feel like the the
• 44:24
  the talent they have is tantalizing.
• 44:25
  That's the problem. You know, it's like they've got
• 44:28
  so many great players. Jason, this one was awesome.
• 44:31
  You're just like, OK, how do you how do you stop that player?
• 44:34
  Ester? You know, it was causing a
• 44:36
  little bit of trouble. Outside of that, though, they
• 44:37
  they weren't able to get too much going.
• 44:40
  Mitch Purse an absolute 0 in this one.
• 44:44
  Yeah, they they needed, they needed something from purse.
• 44:47
  Didn't get anything from purse. Lavelle came on, I thought
• 44:51
  looked really exciting. You know, you, you talk about
• 44:54
  rounding into form. I thought Lavelle looked looked
• 44:58
  solid, looked really good and and almost kind of kind of ready
• 45:01
  to go. It'll just be a matter of like,
• 45:03
  OK, now as the minutes start to add up, you know, the endurance
• 45:07
  level start to, you know, it's like, where's the conditioning
• 45:09
  kind of go from here? So that that'll be something
• 45:11
  that they need to figure out. But you know, you look at 11
• 45:14
  shots, just two on target, you know, you just force Lorraine
• 45:18
  into just two saves. And neither of them were were,
• 45:21
  you know, super duper tricky. I mean, the calls, the the calls
• 45:25
  aside, like I said, I don't think any of them were
• 45:27
  egregiously bad. They were all like in the 65 to,
• 45:32
  you know, 6535 to 5050 range. And they all just kind of
• 45:37
  happened to go against the Gotham and probably rightly so,
• 45:40
  but they they definitely got to figure it out just because I
• 45:42
  think, you know, you know, the league is is evolving, you know,
• 45:48
  and you watch like just watching Bay, you know, from where they
• 45:52
  were last year watching Seattle, from where they were last year,
• 45:55
  watching the league kind of catch up to that Orlando
• 45:58
  defense. You know, it's you look at that
• 46:01
  Orlando defense, it's not like you're like, oh, well, they've
• 46:02
  got this player injured. This this player's out.
• 46:04
  And once they get back, they'll they'll get back to it.
• 46:07
  No, they're all there. You know, it's like, you know,
• 46:10
  like it's it's hard to just keep doing this and playing in a
• 46:13
  dominant fashion and you know, there's only so much there's
• 46:17
  only so much time window. You can keep flashing that 2023
• 46:21
  end of BSL champion graphic. When you show, you know, Amodos
• 46:25
  or you show Gotham, it's like it's we're get that that's going
• 46:28
  further and further in the rear view at an accelerated pace.
• 46:33
  You know, we need to start talking about this team as a
• 46:35
  team that, you know, you could see some bigger changes.
• 46:40
  I I, you know, and I think you know, we talked about the
• 46:42
  personal changes doing the offseason takes a minute to kind
• 46:45
  of get everything to gel, but it doesn't look like it's trending
• 46:48
  towards gelling I. Think that's fair.
• 46:52
  I think that's, I think that's a fairway to look at it, you know,
• 46:56
  40 whatever it is percent of the way through the season, I think
• 47:01
  they can make their arguments. So like, hey, give us a little
• 47:03
  more time. Sorry, 42.3% of the of the
• 47:06
  season we are through, it's still, I'm such a nerd.
• 47:09
  It's still up on my Apple calculator app, the 11 / 26, I
• 47:15
  opened the calculator to make sure to do the math, but it's
• 47:19
  still, the formula's still sitting there on the calculator.
• 47:22
  So 42 percent, 42.3% of the way through the season.
• 47:27
  I'm not. I'm not selling all my my Gotham
• 47:30
  FC stock, but I'm monitoring the situation very closely.
• 47:35
  Yep, Yeah, but monitor closely if you can.
• 47:39
  We're roughly 42.3% of the weekend slate.
• 47:41
  So let's keep it moving. We're at at the 48 minute mark.
• 47:44
  So we'll we'll try to try to Sprint here a little.
• 47:46
  Bit speed round. Washington Spirit 3 N Carolina
• 47:50
  Courage one. I'll kick it to you, my friend.
• 47:55
  I thought it was a cracking game of football.
• 47:57
  I understand the score line doesn't really, you know,
• 48:01
  totally reflect that. It's a Fred Kraken score line.
• 48:06
  Yeah, I would say I think that's that's totally fair.
• 48:12
  I thought. I thought, sorry I got I got
• 48:16
  lost there. What'd you think?
• 48:19
  What did I think? That's the that's the real
• 48:21
  question. Let me.
• 48:22
  No, sorry. Go ahead.
• 48:25
  Can we edit this part? No.
• 48:29
  OK, no editing. All right, Sorry.
• 48:31
  I got totally lost in my notes, dude, just a fucking disaster.
• 48:34
  OK, leader of the show. Thank you.
• 48:38
  Anyway, on my notes, what I wanted to say is I thought
• 48:41
  Brittany Ratcliffe and Courtney Brown played fucking great.
• 48:44
  And obviously, they combine on, you know, a goal each and an
• 48:50
  assist. But Ratcliffe was all over the
• 48:53
  field. She played well on defense.
• 48:56
  She had some key interventions. And then she was a nightmare on
• 48:59
  the attacking side. The courage just had a had a
• 49:02
  hard time coping with those two. Yeah, I think.
• 49:08
  The the spirits, another team in that like talent boon kind of
• 49:13
  category, but you know, and it's funny to juxtapose those two
• 49:17
  teams like trying to put it together.
• 49:18
  Also Spanish, you know, managers on with both of them.
• 49:21
  I think the spirit's doing a slightly better job getting
• 49:25
  getting the most out of this unit.
• 49:28
  A couple things that that I thought about.
• 49:30
  Obviously Bethune impossible not to notice on the return and then
• 49:35
  like the Yonah Hidaldes like kind of weirdness.
• 49:39
  I I don't want to, you know, like now that I don't want to
• 49:44
  speculate, but Hidaldes announces he's leaving.
• 49:48
  I didn't think that the team looked that much incredibly
• 49:52
  better when he took the helm. You know, this is obviously like
• 49:54
  a loaded team and it was like, all right, now where is this
• 49:56
  team going to go? Maybe that's my fault for kind
• 49:58
  of raising expectations too high.
• 50:01
  I don't think the, I don't think this team looked really any
• 50:04
  better with Hidaldes and now with him on the way out, I don't
• 50:08
  know. I think this is a good
• 50:08
  performance. I think this was like probably,
• 50:11
  I'd say a slightly better performance than I had been
• 50:15
  expecting considering the the spirit results coming into this
• 50:19
  one. Yeah, I think that's fair.
• 50:22
  And what Gonzalez was something in the ballpark of like ten
• 50:26
  wins, ten wins, a draw and four losses or something.
• 50:29
  Like before Geraldo's made it over there.
• 50:31
  He was. He was somewhere around there, I
• 50:32
  think so, yeah. I mean, I think the team has a
• 50:36
  lot of talent. I think Mike Watts mentioned on
• 50:39
  the broadcast that they still had 10 players out or listed on
• 50:44
  the on the injury report and they still fielded a midfield
• 50:48
  that included Narumi Hirschfeld, Bernal and Bethune.
• 50:54
  Like what are we talking about here?
• 50:55
  Like this is, you know, they're missing Laci Santos, but they
• 50:58
  still have outstanding midfielders out there who can,
• 51:02
  who can pass, shoot and run and then play some defense.
• 51:06
  So, you know, the team is still loaded.
• 51:10
  I want to say from the courage side on on the quickness,
• 51:13
  Minaka's a superstar. It that that's done and dusted.
• 51:16
  We we've talked about her plenty.
• 51:18
  She's 20 years old. Her ability when she takes that
• 51:23
  Felly Roush pass and plays the first touch absolutely
• 51:26
  perfectly, could not, could not hit, have the first touch any
• 51:30
  better than to get the ball out in front of her.
• 51:34
  And then hits such a perfect chip that she completely fools
• 51:38
  our guy Mike Watts, who who thought, rightfully so, that it
• 51:41
  must have took a deflection off the defender because the ball
• 51:44
  never just pops up like that in that way.
• 51:48
  And then you could see it on the replay.
• 51:49
  But she she chips the keeper as just unbelievable stuff from
• 51:54
  her. Obviously not nearly enough.
• 51:56
  You know, I'm not selling my North Carolina Courage stock
• 51:59
  either. But to your point, This is why
• 52:01
  both trophies are still very much available for Washington
• 52:04
  Spirit, Geraldes or no Geraldes. Yeah, I agree with that.
• 52:08
  I think I might be right to to, you know, just reduce, minimize
• 52:12
  my position a little bit on the courage, my 4th, my 4th ranked
• 52:15
  team, my 4th pre season ranked team coming to the season.
• 52:18
  I just don't think offensively they've got the firepower.
• 52:21
  You know, I think Courtney Vine, Sanchez are just kind of not not
• 52:27
  enough there, you know, and I think they they did great.
• 52:30
  You know, you look at the stats possession wise, I think they
• 52:33
  they were, they were pretty, they must have been pretty
• 52:35
  happy. 54 to 46. They had the shot advantage, 15
• 52:39
  to seven shot on target advantage, 9 to 5, slight edge
• 52:43
  in passing and pass accuracy and then a slight edge with 33
• 52:48
  touches in the opponent's box, 32 for the Spirit.
• 52:52
  So they got into good positions, but you know, ultimately you
• 52:58
  need a little bit more than Monaca like I think in this
• 53:01
  league. And I think you look at what the
• 53:03
  Spirit's able to do with all those attacking players, you
• 53:05
  know, and then the goal, you know, Mira's involved, you know,
• 53:08
  like there's, you know, Kruger's involved later.
• 53:11
  Like I think Kowasi comes in and she's dangerous to gift Monday.
• 53:15
  You've got Bethune. So it's not just that they have
• 53:18
  talented players because, you know, Gotham's Got Talent too,
• 53:21
  but they're able to make interesting connections with
• 53:24
  these talented players. And I think that's kind of what
• 53:26
  what keeps people guessing. I think that's kind of what the
• 53:28
  one thing I'm going to be looking at too.
• 53:31
  I'm not saying it's going to happen, but maybe the hedaldous
• 53:34
  thing was just a bad fit and this could could be some
• 53:38
  sleeping giant potential with Washington.
• 53:41
  I mean, they, they made the final last year with Geraldes.
• 53:45
  But I, I, I see what you're saying though, Like they're, I,
• 53:48
  I think it's fair to say there wasn't like a hugely discernible
• 53:53
  difference between the Gonzales matches and the Geraldes
• 53:57
  matches. So.
• 53:59
  I think I would go a little further and say I think they
• 54:02
  looked a smidge worse under hit all this.
• 54:06
  I think I will say that and I I would go back.
• 54:10
  I think I'm going to try to go back and see or maybe I'm sure
• 54:13
  comment YouTube commenter might do this for me.
• 54:15
  But I'm pretty sure that they were better pre hit all this.
• 54:21
  I think they looked more dangerous.
• 54:23
  I think they looked a little snappier.
• 54:26
  I, I'm not sure if hit all this kind of came in and tried to
• 54:27
  install maybe too much too fast and you know, kind of like
• 54:31
  overcooked it a little bit That, and I'm not saying that he'd
• 54:35
  Aldis was never going to be better or be able to take them
• 54:38
  to a higher peak. I just don't think he did that
• 54:39
  during his tenure. Sure.
• 54:42
  What? They lost Bethune after like the
• 54:44
  19th match or something like 18th or 19th match, I think
• 54:48
  somewhere in that ballpark. Yeah.
• 54:51
  OK, yeah, I, I wish you well inhabiting this island of the
• 54:56
  spirit of better without her. All this.
• 54:59
  I love it. I love where your head's at.
• 55:02
  I won't be joining you there, but I'm, you know, send me a
• 55:07
  postcard. It'll be it's an interesting
• 55:09
  take. And, you know, maybe there's
• 55:10
  more data that we haven't reviewed yet.
• 55:13
  And I guess there's more data incoming once he leaves.
• 55:16
  What's the international break hits?
• 55:18
  What's the Euro break hits and we'll get to see what what
• 55:21
  Gonzales looks like at the helm once again.
• 55:23
  A. 100% All right, so let's see this one last couple of notes
• 55:29
  here. Oh my God, the short corner.
• 55:31
  What are we doing? You're passionate about this.
• 55:34
  I mean, and and I think fuck, I wish I had this.
• 55:38
  I think it was at Astro that was lamenting some short corners
• 55:41
  maybe this weekend on on blue sky or threads.
• 55:44
  But the short corner continues to just terrorized teams that
• 55:49
  aren't really ready for it. And poor, you know, North
• 55:52
  Carolina leaves Shanomi on an absolute island and against Mura
• 55:57
  and I forgot who was taking that that second corner.
• 56:02
  But basically Mura is allowed to just walk right in to within
• 56:06
  like 7 or 8 feet of of the post and just scoop one over the top.
• 56:12
  Just pick out GIF Mondale right there wide open.
• 56:14
  I'll just little scoopy scoop there and just the easiest
• 56:17
  happen. And it's like, why is why are we
• 56:21
  going 2 for one against like versus a short corner?
• 56:24
  Just letting a player like walk it in and then packing 9 or 10
• 56:30
  defenders against all of like their targets.
• 56:32
  And you know, you've got quasi, you've got Monday, you've got
• 56:35
  like very elusive players in there, it seems.
• 56:38
  It seems like a bad strategy. Why?
• 56:40
  Why can't we sort this out? It's a fair question.
• 56:43
  I I guess it's just like if, if you send two to pressure there
• 56:48
  now obviously like you said, Narumi is like kind of walking
• 56:51
  the ball in there. So like, I think at that point
• 56:53
  you could send somebody out there to, to interceptor, but I
• 56:58
  wonder if teams are just afraid of like if we, if we send two
• 57:01
  people out there and somebody is running free in the box, then we
• 57:06
  have to, you know, we have to live with that.
• 57:09
  And then we, and we don't want to, we don't want to face that.
• 57:12
  I'm not sure I, I will, I'm definitely going to be
• 57:14
  interested the next time the opportunity presents itself.
• 57:17
  If we, if you want to make a pact, if you want to ask
• 57:20
  Albertine Montoya, I will ask Laura Harvey as soon at our next
• 57:25
  available opportunities. I'd be interested to hear what
• 57:28
  those two have to say. I'll be like Albertine.
• 57:31
  So North Carolina left Shanomi on an island and versus a short
• 57:35
  quarter, what do you say? We need no, no.
• 57:38
  I know. Yes, we need the next
• 57:40
  opportunities in those matches. We.
• 57:43
  Need somebody to play some short quarters.
• 57:46
  That would be funny. Yeah.
• 57:48
  I, I, I agree with that pact. If it comes up, I will fiercely
• 57:52
  jot it in my notes. And if I'm covering a match and
• 57:54
  you're watching at home and I and I just miss what I just.
• 57:56
  Hey, hey. Short quarter at 46.
• 57:59
  Ask Montoya as soon as soon as you get get a chance.
• 58:02
  Let's go ahead, though. Two more matches to hit my Angel
• 58:06
  City FC. 2 Chicago stars, 2 Angel City.
• 58:11
  A little little a little wobbly, I think at this point.
• 58:13
  First match under Alexander Strauss.
• 58:15
  This one ends in a draw little I mean madness kind of left and
• 58:20
  right in this one got got a little wacky.
• 58:23
  Not not quite NWSL after dark. This one was played a little
• 58:25
  earlier in the day, but NWSL dark vibes for sure in this one.
• 58:30
  After dark vibes for sure. Anything, anything do we need to
• 58:33
  take away from this one or is this just kind of like a
• 58:36
  run-of-the-mill mill kind of wacky early June 2 two draw.
• 58:41
  I just. It it was a weird game.
• 58:47
  It shouldn't be two to two in that spot.
• 58:50
  Like if you're Angel City, you have to be somewhat mortified by
• 58:54
  what happened, especially the fact that you went down to 1 and
• 58:57
  it looked like you might not walk away with a single point at
• 59:00
  home against what has been the worst team in the league.
• 59:05
  MA Vinyola. What a weird game that was for
• 59:08
  her. She's part of the the Gomesh
• 59:11
  goal where like the ball just gets pinched between those two
• 59:15
  and looks like a pop up from RBI baseball on the original
• 59:18
  Nintendo. That's just like, you know,
• 59:20
  makes like the whistling sound as it goes straight up and down,
• 59:24
  you know, then has a handball that was that was called off
• 59:29
  like I think it was a handball. Vinyola also smashes the ball
• 59:33
  off a crossbar and then ends up with a goal and so ends up with
• 59:39
  the with the, you know, the decisive goal as it were to to
• 59:42
  save the draw. So a weird game from from MA
• 59:45
  Vinyola. I don't know what to take from
• 59:47
  this. You know, I was kind of hesitant
• 59:50
  on how good Angel City was going to be coming into this season.
• 59:55
  They seem to be proving me wrong.
• 59:57
  They seem to be on this weird. You know, they have this weird
• 1:00:00
  result. But then, as we mentioned last
• 1:00:02
  show Svendis Jane Jones Jones daughter here is on her way.
• 1:00:07
  So still you you still can't count them out.
• 1:00:11
  You can just got to look at this one.
• 1:00:12
  Say maybe at the end of the season.
• 1:00:14
  It's one of those that you look at and go that was weird, huh?
• 1:00:16
  And then you just keep it moving because maybe they're they're
• 1:00:18
  better. They just end up looking way
• 1:00:20
  better than. This, yeah.
• 1:00:22
  And I think, you know, we talked about obviously HIDAL does, you
• 1:00:25
  know, Strauss coming in that's going to that's going to
• 1:00:27
  probably take a minute. And maybe, yeah, they maybe
• 1:00:32
  Angel City is thinking about, you know, like the the long, you
• 1:00:37
  know, the long game here with the kind of getting set up.
• 1:00:40
  But still they get a result. I'm just checking here.
• 1:00:42
  I just want to double check this.
• 1:00:46
  I thought it was Oh, yeah. Vanessa Giel, who had been
• 1:00:50
  rumored maybe to be possibly coming back officially official.
• 1:00:55
  Official moving on to Bayern Munich from Leon so that that
• 1:01:00
  door's closed but Jones still there.
• 1:01:02
  I think he's going to be great. I think a great hit for Strauss
• 1:01:04
  too. You know could kind of have a
• 1:01:06
  little bit of a you know Leia Schuler type or Domnanovich type
• 1:01:10
  situation. You know it played that kind of
• 1:01:14
  role. So I think in Angel City also
• 1:01:17
  still within striking distance playoff wise.
• 1:01:20
  I don't know. I don't know if they're this is
• 1:01:21
  a team that has like second round or or beyond aspirations.
• 1:01:25
  I'm sure they do. But if they can make the play
• 1:01:28
  offs kind of keep one of those eight spots and make a good
• 1:01:31
  showing of it. I mean, we're still we're still
• 1:01:33
  early. We're still definitely early
• 1:01:35
  enough where that can happen. You know, they're they're level
• 1:01:39
  on points with here Bay FC and only one behind in gold
• 1:01:42
  differential. So yeah, I think Jones out here
• 1:01:46
  is going to make a real difference.
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  I mean, she had what she had like that four-game, that four
• 1:01:51
  goal game in the Champions League where she was just an
• 1:01:54
  absolute beast out there. She looked good playing for
• 1:01:57
  Iceland against that was. Roma, right.
• 1:02:00
  Like the, I think single handedly it was the Roma match.
• 1:02:02
  Yeah, Roma, yeah, yeah. I mean, she's gonna be, she's
• 1:02:05
  gonna be a good fit. She's fast, smart, a good
• 1:02:09
  passer, everything you could want in a footballer and has a
• 1:02:13
  long runway ahead of her for her career.
• 1:02:16
  So it's a great pick up by Angel City.
• 1:02:19
  I would like I said, I was skeptical ahead of the season.
• 1:02:22
  She's going to make she's, I think she's going to be a
• 1:02:24
  difference maker. Yeah.
• 1:02:26
  And I think needs minutes and is going to really benefit from the
• 1:02:29
  extra minutes. No doubt.
• 1:02:35
  All right, one match to hit racing Louisville 3, Utah Royals
• 1:02:40
  2. That is the.
• 1:02:46
  That is your last. Match to hit.
• 1:02:48
  That is your confounding racing Louisville who just continues to
• 1:02:53
  just do stuff and make things happen.
• 1:02:56
  Sitting 6th on the table, level on points with Seattle rain, but
• 1:03:00
  four behind on goal differential.
• 1:03:04
  Ms. Sears is pretty good, huh? Incredible finish.
• 1:03:08
  Really, really smacked that one. That was a that was a great
• 1:03:12
  equalizer. Before that, though, Breck and
• 1:03:14
  Mazingo snuck one in to kind of get things started.
• 1:03:18
  Mazingo kind of you know, obviously Sentinel gets a lot of
• 1:03:21
  headlines. I think in this one she had
• 1:03:22
  three, three shots, 3 on goal, I believe, just not quite unlucky,
• 1:03:27
  but not quite able to just kind of like breakthrough, but
• 1:03:31
  getting chances involved in a lot of the attack.
• 1:03:33
  But Mazingo three goals in Utah's last three matches and
• 1:03:37
  she's 6th in shots on target per 90.
• 1:03:40
  She always seems to be active early and, you know, getting
• 1:03:44
  chances and and kind of making stuff happen that just now seems
• 1:03:48
  to be getting more consistent. So, you know, Utah's got a lot
• 1:03:52
  of problems, you know, a lot of the lot of negatives that we can
• 1:03:55
  focus on. But I think that has been one
• 1:03:57
  bright spot. You know, the attack getting
• 1:03:59
  getting a little bit more, you know, pervasive a little bit
• 1:04:02
  more, you know, creative in, in what they're able to make happen
• 1:04:05
  and, and kind of getting a little bit more productive too,
• 1:04:08
  just not able to quite turn into points just yet.
• 1:04:11
  Yeah, I think that's a good way to put it.
• 1:04:13
  I mean, I, I think Utah won the the total possession battle.
• 1:04:17
  Yeah. They were 55% possession in the,
• 1:04:20
  pardon me, 57% possession in the first half, 54% possession in
• 1:04:24
  the second-half. It's just sometimes they just
• 1:04:27
  don't go anywhere with the ball. And it could be, I'm sure it's
• 1:04:31
  frustrating for Utah Royals supporters, but you know, they
• 1:04:34
  have they have some young players.
• 1:04:36
  Obviously, Ali Sentinor is on the ascent.
• 1:04:39
  I want to, you know, and, and this one, it's a hell of 1/2
• 1:04:43
  hour. The 1st 30 minutes, it's 2:00 to
• 1:04:45
  2:00. And then we kind of live under
• 1:04:47
  those conditions in a cagey match.
• 1:04:49
  Kind of the rest, the rest of the way of those teams trying to
• 1:04:52
  kind of figure out like, how can we possibly, you know, can one
• 1:04:55
  of us get a winner here? Sarah Weber out of Ohio State
• 1:04:59
  University gets it done. First goal at the end of SL.
• 1:05:04
  I believe that I will tell you that campaign in in rough shape,
• 1:05:13
  but a good goal nonetheless. Better than the Coach of the
• 1:05:17
  Year campaign. That's true.
• 1:05:19
  You know what? There's still time, though, if
• 1:05:20
  somebody gets. I think I had his Aldos.
• 1:05:22
  I didn't do anything better. You know what I that want?
• 1:05:27
  That campaign might not be in great shape either, but you
• 1:05:31
  know, what can you do? I, I, I just want to look at do
• 1:05:35
  a quick look ahead. So racing Louisville, as we
• 1:05:38
  talked about 6th on the table. Here's their next or pardon me,
• 1:05:44
  I want to look back. First Racing's last five
• 1:05:48
  matches, an away win versus the Houston Dash, a home win versus
• 1:05:52
  Gotham FCA, home loss versus Seattle Rain FC and away win
• 1:05:57
  versus Angel City, and now this home win versus Utah.
• 1:06:00
  So that's won four out of their last five.
• 1:06:04
  And there's a weird quirk for them in the schedule coming up,
• 1:06:08
  their next two matches before the Euro break, away versus
• 1:06:13
  Kansas City, then home versus our Orlando Pride, then you have
• 1:06:18
  the big break and then they come back and then their home versus
• 1:06:23
  Kansas City current and away versus Orlando Pride.
• 1:06:28
  So they have these two like these like sandwiched reverse
• 1:06:31
  fixtures against the two best teams in the league.
• 1:06:35
  And I think it's going to be really interesting to see what
• 1:06:37
  they're able to come away with in those four matches.
• 1:06:41
  It is going to be interesting because it is a it's, it's a
• 1:06:44
  funny quirk. They do get the international
• 1:06:46
  break in between and they do get to see those teams, you know,
• 1:06:51
  kind of on a back-to-back, you know, like with a little bit of
• 1:06:54
  familiarity. I know there's going to be a
• 1:06:55
  month plus or whatever in between.
• 1:06:56
  But either I feel like there's going to go one of two ways.
• 1:07:01
  Either it's going to be 1 draw and three losses and you know -8
• 1:07:06
  or nine goal differential in those next four matches.
• 1:07:09
  Or we might see, we might see a little something from Louisville
• 1:07:14
  that doesn't really tell you, hey, this is a top, top team.
• 1:07:16
  But this is a team that that can win, can get results on a on a
• 1:07:20
  given day. And I think the fact that they
• 1:07:23
  can play those two and they're just so unpredictable.
• 1:07:25
  Like they they they kind of come up with stuff that you don't
• 1:07:28
  really expect. They're still missing some
• 1:07:31
  people. I think they they they came
• 1:07:33
  close to another goal or two in this one.
• 1:07:37
  So, you know, on the right day, I think they could definitely
• 1:07:39
  make it happen more so than some of the other teams like in North
• 1:07:41
  Carolina. I don't think even on the right
• 1:07:43
  day, like they a lot of stuff has to go right for them to to
• 1:07:46
  kind of get a result against some of those top teams.
• 1:07:48
  But I think a little bit more variance with Louisville.
• 1:07:51
  So that'll be an interesting stretch to keep an eye on for
• 1:07:54
  sure. If you are in the front office
• 1:07:58
  or maybe you are an assistant to Bevianas, Seattle Rain FC Legend
• 1:08:03
  Bevianas and working for Racing Louisville.
• 1:08:07
  If you get 4 points out of those four matches, how do you feel?
• 1:08:13
  I think you got to feel really good.
• 1:08:16
  I think you got to feel really good.
• 1:08:17
  Those might be the four toughest on the slate.
• 1:08:19
  So what are? We If you get 2, if you get 2
• 1:08:23
  points out of those four matches, how do you feel?
• 1:08:29
  I think there's a slight twin tinge of disappointment.
• 1:08:32
  I would say if you get 2, I think you walk away.
• 1:08:34
  You're like, we got 2 all right. We took our lumps, you know,
• 1:08:37
  not, not what we wanted, but what are you going to do?
• 1:08:41
  I think they're a little disappointed with two.
• 1:08:43
  Yeah, I think, I think you're right on there.
• 1:08:46
  I don't like, I don't it. Now, obviously if you get one or
• 1:08:50
  zero, you're you're not in a good way.
• 1:08:53
  You're feeling like that's pretty disastrous.
• 1:08:55
  But I think 2 is the thing where it's just like, fine, I guess
• 1:08:59
  we're not happy with that. But yeah, 4 is the magic number.
• 1:09:02
  I think if if they can get 4 points out of those four, I
• 1:09:05
  think they're feeling pretty great that.
• 1:09:07
  'D be incredible. Anyway, let's go to head episode
• 1:09:11
  calendar as the hour gets sleepy here on the West Coast.
• 1:09:16
  Two more NWSL weekends in June for the EUR kick off July 2nd.
• 1:09:19
  EUR kicking off July 2nd. Here we go here we fucking go.
• 1:09:24
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• 1:09:27
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• 1:09:30
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• 1:09:35
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• 1:09:38
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• 1:09:41
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• 1:09:48
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• 1:09:52
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• 1:09:56
  show notes of this episode. All right, man, I think we did
• 1:09:58
  it. Let's see, time check.
• 1:10:00
  We were shooting for 40 minutes. We're roughly around 70 minutes.
• 1:10:03
  That's OK. I think we I think we packed a
• 1:10:05
  lot in. There was a lot to cover this
• 1:10:07
  week NW cell wise. But with that said, anything
• 1:10:09
  else you want to hit before we get out of here?
• 1:10:11
  No, I think that's it. It was, it was a good week, man.
• 1:10:14
  And you know what, in in traditional NWSL style, like you
• 1:10:19
  know, this is this started as a UEFA Women's Champions League
• 1:10:22
  show, but then we we branched out and started covering the
• 1:10:24
  NWSL. We needed thirty minutes of
• 1:10:28
  stoppage time, so that's just kind of what that's what the
• 1:10:32
  match required and so here we are.
• 1:10:35
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