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USWNT 2 Japan 1 RECAP! ⚽️ Rose Lavelle ⚽️ Lindsey Heaps ⚽️ Riko Ueki | USA v Japan | April 11 2026 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Oh, OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast primarily about
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women's football. I'm your host, Dean of the
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Suspicious and as always, I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant
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Angle. What does that mean?
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Hello friends. It's time once again for a
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tradition unlike any other where I force feed Masters references
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into a women's football podcast just because I like golf.
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I won't do too many of that. I'm feeling fantastic, buddy.
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That was a that was a fun game of football.
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Fun game of football. I think we learned some stuff.
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I don't know. I'm curious how how your read on
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it. But I thought this was a big
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match for Emma Hayes. You know, there was a little bit
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of trepidation in there. It was a little stop and not
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stop and start, but each team had trouble really getting into
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a rhythm. So it was a little bit of an
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ugly game. I like that it was scrappy and I
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like the outcome and I I just thought it was big for the USI.
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Love that. I think that's a that's a great
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take on it. There was a point like right
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around the hour mark, maybe around like the 65 minute mark
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where the midfield play it was get it was like a little hectic.
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It was, you know, it was physical.
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And so I don't think Emma Hayes is going to shy away from those
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type of matches. I mean, you know, you see from
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retirement at Chelsea, like they could mix it up when when they
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need to. So, yeah, I I like that.
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I think, you know, Japan has played a lot of matches with the
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Asian Cup and all this stuff going going into it.
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But you know, you look at that USA team, you know, you got
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Champions League players on there, you got WSL players on
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there. But you know, I, I guess I don't
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want to bounce around too much. That was really good.
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Let's try to let's try to get this into order.
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All I'm saying is I agree with you.
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That was a good match. Yeah, and apologies for starting
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the show, but let's let's pretend I didn't start the show
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so that I could say, Mr. Guneg, where you where you want to get
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started? Let's get started with a
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beverage, because let's go little Saturday football, little
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Saturday afternoon football. What's better than that?
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Not a whole lot, I'll tell you. Good to you.
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Cheers to the football. Cheers to you, cheers to the
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football. So obviously only one logical
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place to start live from San Jose, CA United States to Japan
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1. Yep.
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The first thing I noticed and I texted you this at the onset,
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the front threes loaded get on the US side, Alyssa Thompson,
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Sophia Wilson, Trinity Rodman, and then on Japan side, Abu
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Fujino, Monica Matsukubo and Hen out to Miyazawa.
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And my first instinct was like, I think Japan's the front three
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maybe a little scarier. And and I texted you, I think
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they're more likely to score. And in retrospect, I wasn't
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wrong. You were not wrong.
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No, no, no. I mean, somebody from Japan's
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front three scored and nobody from US as front three scored.
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So the take was right. You got on the record, you you
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texted me to say, hey, I'm a little behind.
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I knew we were operating in no spoilers mode.
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And you got that one right. Early in the match, I think the
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first thing I noticed Bros the Vel there was that moment where
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she's pressuring Yamashita. I think in the 4th or 5th
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minute. Who are you?
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We usually see the key, the keeper, you know, when there's
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some pressure, take a little 2nd and kick it.
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But you obviously just like no, no, no, I just she just reached
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out and grabbed it was the like, I don't know was it a funny
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moment, but it made me laugh. But rose early, the pressure
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that was she was putting was was very noticeable.
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And I think it kind of being a raising little alarm bell with
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me because I went back and checked these the last time USA
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Japan played February 26th, 2025 in the second minute, second
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minute, Yuka Mimiki scores. That was a 21, you know, win for
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Japan about a year earlier, April 6th in the first minute,
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Kikoseki US1 that 121. But that was a she believes cup.
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So I think Emma Hayes kind of flipped it a little bit like,
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hey, hey, for let's not give up 1 early and let's see if we can
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kind of get one early. And I and first half and
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second-half, the US kind of struck with with that kind of, I
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don't know, quick strikeness. That's such a football coach
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thing to do too, is to show the film and be like, look how they
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jumped on you these last two matches.
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Like, well, how about we be the aggressor?
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Like we're informed right now we're feeling great.
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I I I liked US as posture from the opening whistle.
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They look to be on the attack. They I mean that that left side
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with the Thompson sisters was cooking and cooking early.
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Yep. I mean, I wrote, I wrote in my
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notes Giselle from from a an XG standpoint, because she was
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getting busy up the up that left hand side for the interplay with
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with Alyssa and putting good pressure too.
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And involved in like, I think it definitely involved in the
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second goal because she gets that that big take away.
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But a good combination of like XG and like X not G for you,
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for, you know, from a defensive standpoint, like X, you're not
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going to get a goal here. You know, she had that big stop
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in the 40 like right before half time on on Matsukubo, where I
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mean, that was a danger moment. And then about a minute later
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she leaves to break the other way.
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And then I already mentioned that she was doing away involved
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in in that Heaps goal, you know, right after halftime.
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So big game for Giselle, big game for Alyssa Thompson as
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well. Big chances.
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Couldn't couldn't, couldn't quite get there.
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But you got, I mean, I was thinking to maybe like 18 months
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ago, 15 months ago when Alyssa Thompson wasn't quite on the
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bubble but wasn't at this level, wasn't at that like, OK, you
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know, no surprise whatsoever to see her in the starting lineup,
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you know, match in, match out for this team.
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I mean, we've talked about like, is there a question between do
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you play Ali Sentinel or Alyssa Thompson?
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And there are people who fall on either side of that camp.
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I do want to focus on Gisele Thompson here for a moment.
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There were there were stretches and you know, I'm huge into this
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is what I always talk about like Rose Lavelle in the 2019 World
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Cup where I talk about in big, big matches against great
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opponents. There was like there were
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multiple 30 minute stretches where Rose Lavelle was the best
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player on the field. Now, I realize we're talking
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about a friendly versus Japan in in April, but I thought there
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was a good stretch of this match where Giselle Thompson looked
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like the best player on the field.
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From what you were talking about with those takeaways, you didn't
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like that Matsukubo. Matsukubo, pardon me, was was
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available over the top for that long pass, but Giselle Thompson
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snuffed it out and she had other moments too.
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Where when Japan was off on the wing that she was just being
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super disruptive on the defensive end and then we
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already know what she can do on on the attack.
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Yeah, I'm so I'm so jealous of the the Giselle, you know, being
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the player of the match for stretches because that's a great
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take. And she's all over my notes for
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sure. You know, they just didn't kind
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of put that one together. But you know, great moments, the
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Germa Wesley pairing, you know, you don't know what this what
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schematically like they're trying to do because there was
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sometimes where you know, to to your point, like I think where
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it went Giselle made-up on. There was one play where Gurm is
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like way, way, way up the field and it looks like Wesley's out
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of position. But it's it's so it was so weird
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looking that there must have been, you know, something
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schematically like that they were trying to do in that
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moment. But either way, the back line,
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not quite, you know, that they they talked to them telecast
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about, you know, the US being like defensively on full
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lockdown mode for for a pretty long stretch here.
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But they didn't really look, you know, elite, excellent,
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excellent defensively. And I thought I think to your
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point, just all made-up for for a bunch of stuff, you know, when
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needed and was I was just like, you know, so effective and so
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many different parts of the pitch.
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You mentioned the midfield, you know Lindsay Heaps, the year of
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the Heaps. There you go, it's back.
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Here leaps here we'll we'll figure out the the branding of
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it, but I mean a little a little tick up for my for my year of
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the heaps prediction. Sure.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, you get a goal
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and she made some other good plays in there.
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She had she had the pass where she played Sophie Wilson in and
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like, and Heaps like had to take the step back, had to hit yeah,
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had to hit the pass like around the defender to play Wilson
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clean in. And that was on the like you
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mentioned Alyssa Thompson, like you want to finish some chances.
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I that was a golden opportunity for Alyssa Thompson to finish.
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And and you think, you know, you you still feel confident that
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she will finish those types of opportunities moving forward
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because she's too good not to. It was it was surprising that
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she didn't, but I think you're right.
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I think Heaps just that that European style of play that she
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has that can look a little plotting at times, it can look a
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little slow at times. But her ability to pick out the
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passes, find her teammates, slow the game down when she needs to.
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And if she's if she's hitting, if she's striking the ball with
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the right weight on her passes, then she can look awesome.
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But you know, like we've talked about it, you know, she gets a
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lot of stick because sometimes she doesn't hit the hit the
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passes or hit the shots or she might be offside and people get
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mad at her. But this was a good heaps game
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no doubt. Yeah, You know, yeah, I would
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say when she misses, sometimes she misses ugly and it's just so
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noticeable. But it kind of is reminding me a
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little bit of Marta in Orlando right now where it's like you
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don't really need her to like run and like cover a bunch of
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ground and they don't, you know, knock, knock everybody over.
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But you do need her to like kind of like get it, make a great
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decision, stick the past, you know, and like, you know,
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utilize what's there. And there was a little bit of
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that today where like, you know, heaps on the move.
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We didn't get a lot of heaps on the move today, but really
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smart, really good like usage of like, you know, pivoting and
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rotating and just smart passes, you know, and I'm just like, I'm
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like, you can see the Lyon effect happening there.
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You know, I wrote my notes decision making like around the
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16th and 17th minute mark and then also composure on the goal.
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You know, how many players panic in that spot?
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You know, I mean, she's got a great look, but she settles, you
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know, reaches back and and just puts it exactly where she wants
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it, like a clean finish, you know, clear from the keeper,
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like, you know, nails that too. And it was so opportunistic and
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it was just it's it's a great shout by you because she was so
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calm when she did it. And that there is a Leon Ness to
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that, if you will, where she's just like she's just kind of
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like watching the ping pong ball bounce and then boom, I'm going
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to strike it exactly where we need.
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Yamashita has has no chance. I thought that, you know, Heaps
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plays better when USA is able to kind of control the pace a
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little more and maybe that's a chicken and egg kind of
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situation of like. Well, I got something on that,
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but yeah, I want to hear what you say.
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Well, so all right, I'm glad we're, you know, we're in the
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same neighborhood here. Is that like OK does Heaps play
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better when USA plays a more possession style offense?
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Or does Heaps just look better when the rest of her team mates
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are playing more of a possessive style?
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What say you? I, I, I think that I agree with
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your original point that when it's more open and it's a little
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faster twitch, I think she's better.
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And the player that played off her the best today, I think was
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Roosevelt, you know, because like heaps found herself in a
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couple, a couple times, like on the sideline or, you know, about
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to be trapped or something. And then Lavelle just darts and
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is like, let me, let me bail, not bail you out here, but let
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me give you an outlet, you know, and it's like the heaps of L
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chemistry just works. And I think Lavelle knows so
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well how to maximize, you know, what, what you don't Lindsay's
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game and and how to, you know, get to get the Max out, you
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know, performance or outcome. And there was a couple times
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where I was just like, Oh my God, like them to right now, you
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know, at this point in their career have something really
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going and are and are impacting this match in a big way.
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I don't know if either of them really.
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I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if the if the
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comp totally works of like is Rose Lavelle, Steph Curry, is
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Lindsay Heaps, Draymond Green. I think that's, you know, I'm,
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I'm, you know, hesitant to compare anybody to Draymond
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Green. Yeah, he's a one-of-a-kind
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athlete, we'll say. But that kind of chemistry of
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like, I know where you're going, you know where I'm going to be,
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you know what we're going to do together.
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You like we've got a lot of reps.
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Yeah, I thought the chemistry was great and I'm glad you
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mentioned that because we we've talked a lot about, you know,
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kind of like these individual like player chemistries.
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R Pal German national Peter Weiss has talked about this,
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talked about this with us about the German team, how you kind of
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have these blocks of players. So you think about you have that
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heaps Lavelle chemistry that the the Emily Fox Trinity Rodman
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chemistry is just off the charts.
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And like I know like, you know, when the free agency struck,
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you're like, yeah, Trinity Rodman great fit for Arsenal.
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Like that could have been that could have been a real thing.
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And then on the other side you have literal sisters playing
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with each other on the left side with Giselle Thompson and
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Alyssa. Thompson well also Lyon too.
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You got the the Lyon midfield situation totally no, no
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Schrader, but you know Johannes Heaps and you got that
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connection too. It's a great point.
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And coffee, like obviously you know, playing for Manchester
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City Football Club, but coffee in that mix.
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There were a couple times in the first half where it's just Fox
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Coffee and Rodman and I'm just like, and you know, obviously we
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saw it in the 2024 Olympics. That's a really nice triangle of
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players who you want making decisions and trying to figure
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out where do we find the space and when do we move up field.
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It is I mean, I I totally agree with you, but I think I think
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what happened in the second goal is pretty telling.
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You know, not a whole lot happening to cells got to force
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the the turnover and then it's like a lot it's a lot of you
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know, you know, chipping away, chipping away, you know,
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progress, progress. Lavelle puts a cross in
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deflected back works its way back to her.
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Now she's not going to go back for a cross.
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She's going to, you know, kick, you know, Kick It Out the heaps,
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you know, for that, for that kind of open look there.
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But it's like, you know, it's almost like we're going to need
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more than just killer triangles, you know, against teams like
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Japan and the Spains and the England's.
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But like I said, I thought it was really impressive that they
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they won, you know, not just by overpowering and you know, like,
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you know, outclassing it was kind of like it was real
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scrappy. Like, I don't know, for whatever
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reason, maybe going into it, I would have felt, you know, not,
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you know, anticipated feeling like this.
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But yeah, my my arrow pointing a little higher than I think I was
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expecting. OK, I like that.
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I mean, it's an impressive win. Japan put out a great starting
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line up and then we see, you know, the substitutes, Yuaki and
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Miyabi come in right after half. Hamano comes in, Tanaka comes
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in. I thought Chiba put in a like a
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lot of good minutes. The absolute legend World Cup
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winner Saki Kumagai comes in in the 80th.
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Like, you know, Japan emptied the bench to to try to figure it
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out and you know, obviously they get the goal there in the
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second-half, the UEK goal, you know, good sub coach.
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Like I it's a, it's a great win for USA because it's a, it's you
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win 21 over a very quality opponent.
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You can't say like you didn't like totally like kick their
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ass, but like you shouldn't totally kick their ass like
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they're the 5th best team in the world.
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I mean, like, you know, we're talking about two verse 5 in the
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FIFA, you know, rankings here. Well, let me ask you something
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because I don't think you know there.
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I don't. I don't.
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There's no scenario. I don't know maybe Julie Fowler
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might say US kicks these are pans ass, but I'm not sure a
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whole lot of other people would you look at the shots 8 to 6 for
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Japan shots on target 6 to 3 five to three advantage in
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corners as well. They had chances early, they had
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chances in the second-half. After those those Subs, Uecky
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had two more really good chances.
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Could have easily had a second goal today for sure.
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You. Gotta talk about that one.
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Yeah, I'd be you know, Thompson had chances, Uecky had chances.
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I thought the teams were pretty even today, you know, like I
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don't I didn't see much of a difference where like, you know,
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I don't know, I thought the game could have gone either way.
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Game goes US is away. That's great to see.
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That's a real confidence builder.
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You know, when you can win like this.
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I love I love Rose at halftime. I just had in my notes when
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she's asked by Melissa Ortiz, Ortiz says tell us about the
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goal and Rose says, I think it was.
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This is a quote. I think it was a second phase of
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a free kick. End Quote.
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With a question mark. Yeah, with a real, real Ron
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Burgundy shit. And Ortiz was like, yeah, Rose
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was like, yeah, nailed it. Yeah, that was it.
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That's my answer. Lavelle is such an instinctual
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player that I think there is some, Hey, the ball fell to me
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and I got my foot on it and I put it on goal and that's the
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way that was going to work. Like I, you know, I, I think
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that I think that's pretty clear from her style of play in the
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way she describes the way she plays is that she just, she has
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this kind of free flowing football genius decision maker
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aspect to her game. It's why, like, you know, I've
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talked to excellent NWSL defender Quinn, who now plays in
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the National Soccer League up in Canada, about when who who both
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played with Rose Lavelle and against Rose Lavelle, that, you
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know, Quinn told me you got to try to stop Lavelle from getting
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downhill. But that's also not easy.
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And that's not a direct quote, but like, yeah, like, you know,
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good luck trying to stop her from getting downhill.
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That's what I'm nightmares about that just just having envisioned
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it for a couple seconds in my in my brain.
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What else did I want to hit real quick?
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Oh, the UI key goal you mentioned, you know that Trinity
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Rodman's partner on that right hand side, Emily Fox, you know,
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Gunner Champion of Europe, Emily Fox.
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That's right. You got to let the bun, you got
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to wait till there's there's a stop and play like, you know,
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she lost control of the bun. You know, I'm I'm a big fan of
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the fox in the box. You know, anytime that's a,
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that's a scenario, but. This this scenario went way off
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the rails. You know, like she's up there
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kind of reworking things and Japan's just scoring goals in in
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in the interim. I was like when I was watching
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the replay, I was like, oh, she's fixing her, She's fixing
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her bun there, huh? And like you could also you
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Gisele Thompson had a great match.
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She she played fantastic. Like there's like really no
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caveats to that. But AT and at the same time,
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like she kept you wacky on side. But like, I don't think it, I
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don't think her keeping you wacky on side is egregious.
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Like it's hard to, you know, like me and you 2 dudes like
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sitting on our apartments where like houses watching this stuff.
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Like, you know what, like it's hard to get back on, you know,
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to, to set the offside trap there.
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But once we saw the replay, I thought you like, he was offside
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when the goal was scored. I was like, oh, that one's
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definitely getting called back. But as soon as the replay hit,
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you could tell from the beginning of the footage I was
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like, Oh no, no, no, Giselle Thompson's going to keep her way
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on side. It was a good header.
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I, I, and I was very interested to see the way Dickie was going
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to bounce back from that because I do think there is a mental
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aspect. I'm curious your thoughts on
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this. I think there's a mental aspect
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of, OK, now it's 2 to one. Is shit going to get weird?
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There's like 20 plus minutes left.
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What's going to happen? And you know Dickie is fighting
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for the number one goalkeeper spot for the number 2 ranked
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team in the world. And so, like, you wonder how
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much does that come into her line of thinking of like, shit,
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OK, conceited 1, you know, it is PTJ going to come out here and
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be an alien in the next batch? Like, you know, the decisions
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Emma Hayes is too smart and her staff are too smart to make
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like, you know, wild flip flopping decisions.
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But everything is a data point. So I was curious to see how
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Dicky would bounce back. I mean, you know, I'm taking the
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the stats from from, but you know, if those are right, eight
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shots, 6 on target and just the eye test.
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I thought Dicky had a really good game.
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You know, she didn't she wasn't called into like crazy.
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She had one really, really tough save, you know, but and and
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there was a lot of pressure on the goal for sure.
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Couple of them were were pretty routine, but even those routine
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ones, you know, like to your .21, you know, it's I was
22:39
chuckling because I was remember that Jill Lloyd, the story where
22:42
you know, she's like 2 NIL most dangerous, you know, leading
22:44
football. Well, last time was 2 NIL.
22:46
This team came back to two and then they were they kind of they
22:49
were chuckling about it and then it happened again. 22 NIL
22:52
becomes 22. So there is something to it.
22:56
You know, cliches become a thing for a reason and it I definitely
23:00
felt it in this one. You know, we talked about your
23:02
keys close calls down the stretch, but Dickie was up for
23:05
it. I thought the defense, you know,
23:10
bend but don't break. I think it's kind of like the,
23:12
the, the, the position that they took the last 60 minutes of the
23:16
match. You know, once they, you know,
23:17
kind of got the speed of things, it wasn't it wasn't suffocating,
23:22
wasn't all-encompassing. They kind of held on, but they
23:24
played well. You know, they played tough.
23:26
They hung in, you know, like they they they battled when they
23:30
needed to. So again, I think I think Emma
23:33
Hayes is going to be really proud of this performance.
23:35
I don't know, There's something that's telling me that that is
23:38
going to be the read off this one and then these next two.
23:42
I mean, I'm super interested to see what what these two teams
23:44
look like for the next 180. It certainly felt like the best
23:51
lineup Japan could put on the pitch.
23:56
So I'm very interested to see and obviously I will be in the
24:00
building Lumen Field on Tuesday for this rematch.
24:07
It certainly felt like this match had the best lineup that
24:09
Japan could put out and I understanding that mean a Tanaka
24:13
didn't come in until what, like the hour marker or somewhere
24:17
around there, So I'll be very interested to see what the the
24:22
rotated squad looks like. USA just has so many good
24:26
players on the bench here. I think it's fair to say it as
24:31
much as I like Japan and have have have touted them from since
24:36
the inception of this here podcast, USA is deeper.
24:42
I mean like you know, Lily Real doesn't get any minutes in this
24:45
match. The list goes.
24:48
Goes on and on, Johannes. Yeah, Johannes doesn't get any
24:51
minutes in this match. So like, there is, there's a lot
24:55
of talent left to play. Avery Patterson didn't play.
24:59
Olivia Moultrie didn't play. Jaden Shaw didn't play.
25:02
Like we're talking real superstars.
25:05
Do you think that it feels like things are lining up for Emma
25:09
Hayes to trot out, you know, the, the young, you know,
25:14
basically like sort the sort the column by age, you know, like in
25:18
decreasing order or increasing order and just play the, the,
25:22
the 11 youngest players, you know, kind of not set one up to
25:26
take one on the chin. But like, let's, let's measuring
25:30
stick our, our young, our young crew and then setting up for the
25:35
third one where it's like, all right, now, let's this is the
25:38
true like measuring stick situation.
25:41
Because I think these seem to pretty even.
25:43
I'm not sure if that's like maybe 2-3 dimensional or 4
25:46
dimensional or I'm just getting getting out ahead of myself.
25:49
But I'm going to be interested to see if it's like heavy on,
25:53
on, on youth or if it's a mix or if it's a full rotation.
25:59
I don't know. I'm I'm going to keep my ass out
26:01
for sure on that. We've seen Hayes do something
26:04
close to a full rotation. I mean, we're only talking a few
26:07
days. Well, we're talking like 3 1/2
26:10
days or whatever since this match was played.
26:14
So I think it'll be fairly close to a full rotation.
26:20
It would be absolutely diabolical.
26:22
And I'll tell you this as somebody who gets served
26:24
Instagram ads well localized to Seattle, WA, considering I live
26:29
here, it would be diabolical to to play Fallon Tellus Joyce over
26:36
Claudia Dickey in Seattle. An amazing storyline considering
26:42
Fallon Tellus Joyce. The first time I became aware of
26:45
her was as the goalkeeper of at that time OL rain.
26:51
So I'll be very interested to see how that's going to go.
26:54
We know Emma Hayes has been subject to, you know, hometown
26:58
crowds chanting at her. We want Player X in their home
27:02
in their hometown or whatever club they play for her putting
27:05
them in the match. It would be pretty wild to play
27:09
PTJ over over Claudia Dickey. And I got to tell you, no lose
27:13
situation from your boy because I I cover Claudia Dickey.
27:16
I think she's an outstanding goalkeeper, one of the absolute
27:19
best in the world. But you know how I feel about
27:21
PTJ too, so you know I can't lose in this scenario.
27:26
Yep, Yep, lock it down. Lumen field between the pipes.
27:31
Jane Campbell for the USWN. T that would be, yeah, that
27:34
would be a real curveball. That'd be funny.
27:37
All right, man. Anything else you want to hit
27:39
before we get? Out of here I do.
27:41
Speaking of Tuesday in when I will be in Lumen Field that
27:46
evening. Tuesday.
27:48
Real hoops, Bubba, Let's talk about this. 9 AM. 9:00 AM.
27:57
And you know, we're talking Pacific Time because that is so
28:00
obviously the best time zone in this shit hole country that we
28:04
live in. 9:00 AM. Norway versus Slovenia, let's go
28:10
10 AM. How about Sweden versus Denmark?
28:13
Switzerland versus Turkey at 11 AM?
28:17
Well, I don't know. Have you ever heard of these
28:18
teams, England versus Spain? Does that sound like a good
28:22
match? I think that one should be
28:24
pretty interesting. Let me just do this real quick
28:27
because it's the the the numbers are fairly similar, but when USA
28:33
and Japan play each other, I'm going to go to Fat Mob
28:36
everybody. You can do this yourselves if
28:38
you're interested in this kind of thing.
28:39
You go to Fat Mob, you click on the match, it's England versus
28:42
Spain. Then you click on the little
28:44
mini tab that's head to head to show how they've played each
28:48
other. OK, so in their last few
28:50
matches, playing against each other, England versus Spain, you
28:53
remember the Euro final. That was an important match.
28:56
That was a fun match. One to one.
28:58
England wins on penalties. And then we're talking about the
29:01
UEFA Nations League. Spain beats England 2 to one.
29:04
Then England beats Spain one nil in the World Cup final.
29:08
I I remember that Olga Carmona won her goal.
29:11
Spain wins one nil. And then in the in in the 2022
29:15
Euro, which I think was the Georgia Stanway super late goal
29:19
in the quarterfinals, England beat Spain 2:00 to 1:00.
29:22
And then they have friendlies like that are nil, nil or 01.
29:27
It's going to be a dogfight. We're talking about two of the
29:30
three absolute best teams in the world, maybe two of the two best
29:33
teams in the world, depending on who you ask.
29:37
I digress. Tuesday, let's keep it moving.
29:40
11:15 How about Wales verse Albania?
29:44
Wales, the home of Jess Fishlock and Anurad James Turner.
29:48
Albania, obviously the home of Action Bronson and the new home
29:53
country of former New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
29:56
I don't know if you saw that story.
29:58
Did you see that story? No.
29:59
What's the story? Eric Adams was granted
30:02
citizenship in the country of Albania.
30:04
Because what is life? Every new story is super weird
30:08
in 2026. Yeah, that that all checks out.
30:12
And that that was Action Bronson, not Ghostface Killer,
30:14
right? It was, yes, I I know I have
30:17
that correct Albanian style got a lot of Action Bronson
30:20
references moving on. 1130 AM window, Iceland versus Ukraine,
30:26
Scotland versus Belgium, 1145 Netherlands versus France.
30:30
Does that sound like a football game you might be interested in?
30:33
6:30 PM Pacific Time, Brazil versus Zambia.
30:37
We were we're real hoops. And then seven, 7:00 PM USA
30:44
versus Japan. Can you get enough?
30:46
That's unbelievable that that might be the greatest day in
30:49
football. I mean, and I love that the the
30:52
the capper is USA, Japan, I mean, Pacific.
30:56
It's like an entire day. And he's like, they're still
31:00
going to start 15 minutes after. Like it's impossible to watch.
31:03
There's like 5 matches that start within a 45 minute window.
31:06
And many of them will be impossible for us to watch
31:08
unless we're watching very sketchy streams on the Internet.
31:12
But you know, we'll find a way to do it.
31:14
Yeah, yeah, we always find a way and we appreciate all our
31:17
friends that that help us make that happen.
31:20
Let's hit the football calendar. You mentioned it.
31:21
April 14th, Seattle, Bloomingfield, USWT back in
31:25
action. They've got another date.
31:27
Denver, Co. That'll be the third match a few
31:30
days after that, back April 25th, just two short weeks away.
31:36
Oh my God. Byron hosting Barcelona, Arsenal
31:39
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31:43
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31:47
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Found your boys on all the socials.
31:52
All right man, I already asked you this but is there anything
31:54
else? Final finding one hip?
31:55
Forget either. The only final, final thing I
31:57
wanted is that if you are not watching way into Bay FC, you're
32:01
a fool. A fool, I tell you.
32:03
Dino is breaking it down. No better coverage of Bay FC
32:07
then on way into Bay. And now you, you started
32:10
throwing in the the film breakdown, you know, taking
32:13
screenshots of where players are on the pitch.
32:15
But as plays happen, I mean, my guy, look, look, we've been
32:19
friends. You're you are destroying this.
32:21
It's just it's an absolute must watch for me.
32:25
I've got some massive, massive bathings on my sleeve, cooking
32:30
cookies, making friends on Reddit.
32:33
I mean, all I mean, there's some very smart football nerds,
32:37
brains, minds on Reddit that have been very friendly.
32:42
I'm I'm I'm building up the the courage to to see if anybody
32:45
wants to, you know, join us in the tent.
32:48
But there's some real stuff cooking some interviews down the
32:50
Pike. Very, very excited about that.
32:53
Either way, this has been another presentation.
32:56
Woof, let me do that again. Either way, this has been
32:59
another episode of into the channel.
33:00
I listen to my podcast at like 1.5 X and I think it's affecting
33:04
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33:07
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33:34
you know, not being the biggest USWT fan, but always happy to
33:38
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33:42
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33:45
and I really appreciate it. And you also bring the analysis.
33:48
So I mean, for that and a million other things, I
33:52
appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy.
33:54
And you know what? I I grew up, you know, playing
33:57
FIFA, cheering for England. You we've talked about my
34:01
affinity for the Japanese national team, but like I've
34:04
said multiple times, like the shadow executive producer of
34:07
this program watches these matches with me.
34:09
I root for the US women's national team.
34:11
I will be attending the USWNT Japan match in beautiful Seattle
34:17
with the shadow executive producer of this program.
34:19
And if I'm rooting for a team that's not USA, you know, it's
34:24
not great. So I, I root for USA in those
34:27
circumstances, we'll see who I'm secretly rooting for.
34:30
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34:34
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34:37
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34:41
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