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Lyon Tops Wolfsburg | Barcelona Dominates Real Madrid | FULL UWCL RECAPS 🏆 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast primarily about women's
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football and my host Dino De Suspicious.
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And as always, I'm joined by my coast, Mr. Grant Engel.
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What is up man? I'm feeling fantastic, buddy.
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I mean, look, we had some injury issues earlier in the week.
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I feel like we're both on the mend.
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I'm feeling stronger. I feel myself getting stronger
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every day, even though I hopped right up from my injury.
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I know you did, too. No punk assness between the two
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of us. We expect the same from all of
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our pals watching the show. We know it is the toughest group
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of podcast listeners in the game today.
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I'm ready to talk about these two matches.
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I definitely
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hopped back up and I hopped back up.
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I mean, I hope you mean like rising around in pain for a few
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days. But it's a hop Tomato.
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Tomato, right? All right, man, where are you
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going to get started? Let's get started with a
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beverage, my good man. It's Friday night.
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Let's go. Made it through the work week.
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Did you say love a love a Good Friday?
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I'm I'm extremely ignorant about these things.
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Is today Good Friday? It is Good Friday.
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Look at that. Cheers to that.
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Cheers to the football, cheers to you.
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Cheers to you, cheers to the football.
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Quarterfinals in the books. We did it.
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We advanced again. We always do.
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You know what, man? Nobody's stopping us.
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And I got to tell you it, it always hits me like, and maybe
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I'm just a melancholy fella. Maybe I'm just a guy who grew up
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listening to The Cure and The Smiths sad boy music.
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But when you get to the quarters, I don't know.
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I try not to be a pessimist. Then I'm just like now we only
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got the semis in the final left. I don't want it to end.
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It's been so great. I know what is that 5 five
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matches left? That's it.
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That's that's a real bummer. But the good the good news is
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that the intensity cranked way up.
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I mean, we probably we I think we landed with like a pretty
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traditional, even though this wasn't the seating like a 1423
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type feel or, you know, bar says the one Byron's the four Arsenal
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Leon, how everyone chopped that up at the 2 three.
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So so we got great balance, like a really nice bracket and we got
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a few weeks to kind of decompress.
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But before we get there, I do want to cover these two matches
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from this this past week that that closed out the
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quarterfinals, these second legs.
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So let's do it. We'll start chronologically
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Barcelona 6 Barcelona What is that?
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Barcelona Sace Real Madrid Seto Real Madrid Nil Barcelona
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advances 12 to two on aggregate What is that dosay and.
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Dosay a DOS? Dosay a DOS?
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Thank you. I don't know what am I doing in
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the beginning of the show, trying to do Spanish, trying to
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speak Spanish. I mean, I know like the tiniest
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bit ever. I don't know what I'm doing.
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Barcelona 6, Real Madrid nil. No say Barcelona advances 12/2
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on aggregate. I mean this was an ass kicking.
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This was a thorough ass kicking. You could you could also inject
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another three nil in there to to kind of like over those 3 three
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matches, 15 to 2 on aggregate. 15 Barcelona 15 Linda Kaisedo 2
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Just this one was I mean, I couldn't believe how fast they
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started. I mean, it was like out the
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gate, no messing around like just shot out of a cannon.
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You know, you were joking about how how soon would we get or how
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many Bayern, Barcelona mentions, but we we got the first one nine
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seconds into the there it is. So I we got up to a really fast
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start there. But you know, when you see the
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lineup and you see, I don't know, there's something about
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the sign that feels incredibly balanced and like unpredictable.
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And you're like, you just your eyes could just kind of ping
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around. You're like, oh, OK, I don't
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know where exactly the danger is centered, but the danger is
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everywhere. Bro I I mean, I love this.
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We've been watching football together and talking about it
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for so long. With the first things I thought
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and put in my notes, this is about as close to a death line
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up as Barcelona can get with without obviously three time
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defending Balandor winner Aitana Bone Mati.
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I love the line up that they put out there.
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They then they put it out there knowing the tie was in hand.
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They're four goals up. There's pretty much you know,
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and we respect Real Madrid. They're they're a good team and
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I like the when I look at the line up card at the beginning of
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the match, there's like a lot of good players on that team and I
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still know they're drawing dead. But Barcelona still put out the
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best line up I felt like was available to them and I love
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that move. I mean, it was incredible.
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And and you just look at the scoring where it comes, you
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know, like this is when Barcelona's at their best.
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You know, I mentioned, you know, the the the pyor you she takes a
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crack in the eighth minute. That one followed up by Alexia
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and then you just what you sing Alexia and Carolina Graham
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Hansen just flying in, you know, at A at A at the drop of a hat
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gave me real like Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan lob city vibes
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were just like they're just they're coming and like if, if
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the balls up there, they're going to they're going to smash
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it home. 15 the 15th minute CGH steamrolls.
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Yas meme didn't didn't love seeing that, but that was a that
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was very, you know, like it like it was a great representation of
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the day as a whole, like that one little 2 second microcosm of
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CGH just overpowering gas beam in that moment.
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We're too linked up right now. I cannot believe this is
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happening. I mean, the fact that you threw
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out a DeAndre Jordan, Blake Griffin reference, the immediate
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things that I thought of when CGH just flies over Yasmeen for
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that headed goal. I thought about Scottie Pippen
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over Patrick Ewing. I thought about Shaquille O'Neal
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over Chris Dudley. I thought about Vince Carter
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over Frederick Weiss. Like it was just I'm flying over
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you. There is zero you can do about
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it. And you know, I would say this
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is, you know, Yasmine is a good player.
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She's probably closer, she's closer to Patrick Ewing than
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Chris Dudley or Frederick Weiss. No, I don't mean to disrespect
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Yasmine when I, when I bring up Chris Dudley and Frederick
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Weiss, but like, what was she going to do in that spot?
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I. Mean you could have put
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Frederick Weiss out there, but. I love that.
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And then, you know, I was mentioning earlier, like
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Barcelona, like, you know, the, the how do you want in nature
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when you get when you get the CGH corner off Eden and Perez,
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you know, forehead for the third one, you're just like, it's over
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at that point, you know, like, who are they going to score this
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way again? Like now you just realize that
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that everything's on the table. You've got to defend everything.
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You can't defend everything. And they, they're just, they're
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just punishing. And the level of intensity that
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they took this match up to was frightening.
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You know, it jumps off the screen and it, it made me
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actually go back and be like Real Madrid.
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They're good, right? They're they're, they're solid
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And and I go back. They.
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Beat on this GMZ run, they beat Paris FC twice, they beat
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Wolfsburg, they beat PSG, they beat Eintracht Frankfurt twice
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to to to get through qualifying. They smashed Roma six to two.
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This isn't a team that limped to this point.
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This was a solid team that just completely got blown off the
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pitch. And let's talk a little bit
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about Las Blancas. I'm I'm glad I'm glad you say
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that, because obviously they're not bad.
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And you know, I love the they got a lot of good players
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theory. But Naomi Feller, Linda, Linda
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Kaiseido, Felipe Engel, Dahl Lacrar, Yasmine, I feel
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terrible, terrible for Misa in all of these situations.
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Misa Rodriguez is a good goalkeeper.
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There's no two ways around that. She's one of the better
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goalkeepers in the world to Letty.
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How many times have we talked about Atenea del Castillo as as
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a dynamite player, an electric player, a tough player?
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You know, obviously they had, they had Caroline.
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Weir, yeah. Yeah, Redondo plays for them
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like, like they have good players.
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Good. Players.
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But there is just a distance right now between these 2 clubs.
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And I'm, I'm glad you mentioned, you know, when it, when it goes
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to three nil, you know, we're watching these matches.
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We're no spoilers. We have like work projects,
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family stuff that we got to do. And I do people have probably
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noticed from the number of times that I interrupt myself as I
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talk on the on this podcast that I can be somewhat absent minded
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at times. And I know you like Real Madrid
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and, you know, I've positioned myself as the Barcelona guy on
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this podcast. So I'm not like, and I don't
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mean to like talk shit or whatever, but as I'm watching
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the replay, I'm like taking my mental health walk.
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I'm like watching on my phone, you know, doing my thing.
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And I just decide, because I knew you were ahead of me, you
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would watch more of the match to that point than I had.
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And I wasn't even trying to be a jerk, but let me just do the
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public apology because we care about accountability on this
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program. I decide to text Dito, who
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actively roots for Real Madrid. I text Dino after the third
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goal. Hey man, I'm 30 minutes through
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this match. I think Real Madrid might be in
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trouble. I didn't do it to be a jerk.
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I thought it was a funny line so I'm sorry if it came off like I
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was like talking shit. No man, they were.
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That's that's what it it like it's very it's very addictive
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because like for you to send that text like we already knew
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they were in trouble. They came into this one down 62.
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So for me to get that texted 30 minutes in, it just tells you
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how the degree of trouble they were in in this one, because it
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was absolutely unrelenting. Barcelona completes 90% of their
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passes as a team in the quarterfinals of the Champions.
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League. Come on, like against their
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biggest rival? Yeah, if a if a player completes
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90%, I'm just like, oh, Harry, they were cut the whole team at
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90% is is outrageous shots on target 14 to 0, just a complete,
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you know, a complete overwhelming of of of a decent
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side. Like we mentioned the last thing
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I want to hit 55 minutes when Alessia Alexia steps in front of
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that ball, that footwork, the drive gets deep and then kind of
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like a little like faint, like a little faint step and then cuts
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it not across, but like across and back to kind of like give
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CGH the opportunity to like wheel in and then wheel back.
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You know, like just utilize that, you know, the space to do
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the the double move. Essentially just create like
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it's I can't believe how much of the goals get created at every
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step of the way. Like with each pass, like with
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each pass, you just like value added, value added, value added.
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And then the 6th one that that Brooks puts in it, it pretty
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much just knocks off, you know, I, I hate to dismiss like the
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last touch, everything leading up to that was so brilliant, so
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precise. The energy's building, the balls
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moving faster and faster with each pass, with each touch that
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all Brooks has to do is just open up and it's just pimple.
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And it's like, I can't give out so many assists in the ITC
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person. There's only so many assists I
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can give out in the ITC personal record book.
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But it's just like I just write down every name because every
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name is vital to the action. Like on every single goal.
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I think it's the coolest part about Barcelona is that they
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just, it's so ingrained, they so deeply know who they are from
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the perspective of a, of a footballing ethos that they just
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stamp that over from the men's game to the women's game, as the
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women's game continues to, to grow.
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And it's we just shouldn't, we shouldn't be too surprised that
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they're great. But the distance between them
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and the other teams and you know, the, the Gunners beat them
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in, in a final that's super meaningful.
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Lyon beat them in a final a couple years ago.
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That's super meaningful. But the the, the distance that
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they create where if they're having their best day and you're
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having their best day, you might not have much of a chance.
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I think that that speaks a lot to everything that they are the
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players they recruit, the players they develop the the way
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they play. I just think they are the Death
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Star at this point. Yeah, and I mean really good
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players having moved on, you know, you mentioned the Beaumont
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T injury. So it's like it's not like it's
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just they have got the biggest checkbook and they did all this
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in a year where a lot of other teams, you know, haven't taken a
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step for, you know, that like we're watching some of the other
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teams look like they're getting, you know, the the gap closed on
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them. The Chelsea's of the world,
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Leon, we'll talk about them in a little bit.
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But Arsenal maybe, probably Arsenal maybe looks a smidge
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better, a smidge ahead of last year.
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City looks better than last year, but Barcelona looks like
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they're they're evolving faster, you know, than the competition
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is like, Oh my God, like what? What are we going to do?
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How are we going to keep up? I mean, it might be that city is
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maybe the only team that could really truly push them.
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We'll have to wait till next year.
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But I I don't know, it's what I see.
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What can I say? But let's move on one more match
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to hit Leon Wolfsburg. I mean this one, this one had
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some ebbs and flows to it. Lyon super duper fast start.
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What did you see in this one? I love the aggressiveness, I
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love the Karidatu D, and he came out making some moves, looking
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real quick on that right wing creating, you know, creating
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problems for Wolfsburg's defense.
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Hey buddy, how about an American player scoring a goal, scoring a
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super important goal in the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter
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final? And not even just not just any
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American player. Friend of Into the Channel,
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friend of the program, Lily Johannes.
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I thought you were going to Orlando's own Damaris Iguerilla
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when they were talking about the the American midfielder.
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Like, oh, the American midfielder.
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I'm like, yo, Orlando's an American bra.
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Like, what are we doing? Like I know she plays for the
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Netherlands, but like, you know. Yeah, that's tricky.
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That's a tricky 1. I mean, I don't know, I feel
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like it for the mentioned I or maybe I just love mentioning it.
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That's actually what it is. It's not worth mentioning at
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all. It's so good she I mean her
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father's a highlight player and that's awesome.
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I'll see you I'll see you Dania highlight this weekend.
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I'll. Be there with Cody.
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I love Leon's. I thought their press early was
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like a we're we're not messing around today.
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I love that they came out so hardcore with it.
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And then a little bit of a sneaky like 4141 formation.
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It looked like it looked like out of Hagerberg.
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They kind of wanted to get her in, you know, hold up
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situations. And then you've got you LeBron,
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Lily, Corbin, Schrader and Danny, who you mentioned, you
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know, roughly like almost like in a four across for a lot of
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that's a lot of the time, especially when Hegerberg was in
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those hold up moments. And then she just got a chance
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to like look around and pick out whoever she wanted, whoever
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could make kind of like a run into the zone.
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And then in the 11th minute, I mentioned in my notes, good
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things keep happening when Lily's on the ball just because
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like, whenever she was around, it felt like he was.
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He was either a turnover on the other side or positive play,
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positive action, at least early in the match.
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I mean, but it's, it's long for a nickname.
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But how about Lily? Positive play, positive action,
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Johannes? I mean, that's all she does,
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man. Yeah.
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Like we talked, we've been talking about her IQ for years
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at this point. And she just fits so perfectly
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into a Geraldes system, into a European style system.
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And we've seen her do it for the US women's national team.
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I mean, the IQ is ridiculous for somebody her age.
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And then she had, she possesses so many physical skills that the
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touch on the passes, I mean, when she's playing like that,
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it's, it's hard for any team to really keep up with her.
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Yeah, no, 100%. And she just puts so much
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pressure on the defense, like her movement, she's always
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moving. She's always, she's always like
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gravitating towards the the right open space.
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It's going to put Max pressure on the defense, which I love.
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And then to put her next to Schrader, who just if the ball's
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there, she's whacking it the anti like it's like kind of like
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a fun, you know, like, you know, I don't know Hammer and I don't
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know the right kind of like analogy for the old, though.
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It's a good 1-2 punch, we'll say.
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But can I I mean, would. Yeah, go ahead.
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OK, so again, we, you know, I mean, our, our opinions are
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overlapping. We've been doing this for a
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while. I put I had in my notes, like
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how much of Schrader's game is just, oh, the ball's bouncing
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toward me, I'm going to fire a shot as hard as I possibly can.
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We've talked about this now. Schrader is a young player.
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She has room to develop more. So I'm going to make a
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comparison. I do not personally think she is
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as good as this player, but you and I have talked a lot about
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Jill Rort from Manchester City Football Club where it's I'm
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going to hit super hard shots and some of them are going to go
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in and then several others are going to be somewhere between 1
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yard and five yards over the crossbar.
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And I'm not quite sure where they're going to be.
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It feels like Schrader has a lot of that to her game, which kind
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of surprises me that Herald is, would 1A player like that, like
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with his Barcelona pedigree and like the quality and like the
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control and like that kind of piece.
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But it seems like he likes something about putting Schrader
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in those moments where he's just like, you know what, When the
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ball bounces to you and even if you're 3, you know, a yard or
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two outside the 18, just RIP it and we'll see what happens, you
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know? It's funny because as you're
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going through all those players, she's the only one in that Leon
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attack that does that, right. Deoni is a little bit more
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calculated. Bron wants to run and move.
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You know, Lily's going to do what Lily's doves, you know,
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and, and, and how to Hegerberg has been about headers, hold,
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hold the play and she does her stuff.
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So, so having that kind of wild card in there.
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Yeah. And there was a funny where
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where Lily and Lynette Beardstein, like, there's a
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collision, like, you know, right, right at the end of the
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18, before they hit the floor, Corbin's already kicked the
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ball. Of course.
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I got this and I love I love it. I mean, for me, as I keep doing
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it, I think that that wild card nature of her game because when
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she's going to be first to the ball anywhere inside 25 yards,
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the the defense has to panic a little bit.
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They have to react because she's that type of player.
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And I think that just, you know, shifts pieces around really
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quickly and kind of puts people in the scramble mode.
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So I kind of like it. And at least for the 1st 25
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minutes, Wolfsburg had no answers defensively.
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Yeah, I mean, they were getting pressed into oblivion.
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Leon was suffocating them. It felt like.
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Wendy Renar was 40 yards from the attacking goal for like so
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much of the first half. Like all the defense was way
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pushed up. Wolfsburg had no chance.
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They're like just multiple times in my notes.
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Like I don't think Wolfsburg's defense is playing that that
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poorly. I don't think I actually I I'll
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correct that they weren't playing poorly at all.
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The defense was playing well. But if you're just going to let
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Leon keep taking shots at you, you are drawing dead.
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That that's so true. And, and I wrote in my notes, I
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was like, if, if Wolfsburg's going to put forward nothing
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offensively, that's it. They won't be able to hold
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right. And I think Leon's defense and
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their press specifically, there was a point where all Wolfsburg
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could do was pass it amongst the back four.
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Like there was no, there were just no passes available, not
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even to the six. Like there was just nothing that
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that's all they could do. Like the and, and Wolfberg's
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smart enough to be like, well, we're not going to just give you
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the ball back. So they just got to pass it back
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and forth until they kind of realized I did make a note in
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the 26th minute be Elda. She's in kind of a one-on-one
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situation with you, LeBron, and kind of stands up to Bron.
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And you know, Bron had been like in bully mode for I'm she was in
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bully mode all day. She just was that's what she
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does. Yeah.
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I mean, but she cranked it up a little bit.
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And I thought that moment was a little bit of a turning point
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for Wolfsburg. They get their first box touch
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two minutes later. And then a few minutes later,
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the game had kind of shifted, you know, Wolfsburg, you know,
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still not a lot of the ball, but their defense was maybe caught
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up. They were up to speed, like
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quite literally, quite literally able to kind of, you know, body
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on the body, you know, knock it. Because the first, the first
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portion, they were chasing everything and just in a ton of
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trouble. I think the 30 minute mark, they
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really kind of played there. They had already played their
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way into it. It's a it's a great shout by
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you. I think be Elda, like be Elda
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held up as much as she could. They they clearly thought like,
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OK, we're going to stay back. We're going to play a little
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block and then we're going to hit them on the counter it and
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you know, whatever. Like we're not in the tactical
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room. We didn't interview any of the
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coaches after after these matches.
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We're we're quite a ways away, but it's it seemed it certainly
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seemed like they thought like, OK, we're going to play counter
23:49
attacking football. But the thing that I don't know
23:52
if they didn't expect it or maybe they thought they could
23:54
overcome it, is that Leon was like, no, no, you actually won't
23:59
play it counter attacking football.
24:00
The only move you'll have is to punt it back to us in the
24:05
desperate clearance and then we're going to just attack you
24:08
again. And then what they had they had
24:11
it felt like they had sixteen corners.
24:13
I Chris Whittingham who was awesome on the call I think he
24:17
had pointed out by by the 60 minute mark I think Leon had 16
24:22
corner kicks and Wolf forget 0. Yeah.
24:26
And I think, well, if you think about what what it looked like a
24:30
4141 for big chunks of it, you could kind of get away with it
24:34
because you've got heaps as that defensive mid and then that back
24:39
line, Basha, Bernard Engan and Ashley Lawrence.
24:43
This was a different, different Ashley Lawrence too.
24:45
In this match. I thought she played really,
24:46
really well. But defensively too, it starts
24:51
up top, You know, when you have DNE, you have Hagerberg,
24:56
Schrader, Johannes, when you have those players pressuring
24:59
and and all committed to it. We want the ball.
25:02
We want, you know, we want to like just not give you even air,
25:05
any air to breathe it. It's much, much, much more
25:08
effective. Ultimately, they couldn't, you
25:10
know, you look at Seth Leona had 78 box touches over the course
25:14
of the match, 37 shots, 14 on target.
25:18
Seen the Johannes 10 saves. She was incredible, by the way.
25:22
I mean. Second best Johannes on the
25:25
field. Yeah.
25:27
And I mean, there was Johannes versus Johannes.
25:29
Johannes on Johannes crime there a couple times, you know,
25:32
because you get to stop. Lily almost hung a second one on
25:35
her. I mean, that was a that was a
25:38
great kick save. That was awesome.
25:40
That's football, right? That I love that in football the
25:45
great player gets a chance and the keeper has to like, you
25:48
know, they make themselves big and then have the kick save
25:50
that. I mean, that's choice.
25:53
You love that. It's so great.
25:54
It's so great to kind of talk about the keepers a little bit
25:57
because I thought Bosh on the other side really wanted to
26:01
score today and put 2 just like this is my best crack, you know,
26:07
like worst Dina had to, you know, get get up high center the
26:11
center of the goal and then get low all the way out to the left
26:15
on that on that second free kick late.
26:18
So to to contend with those was great.
26:20
But then in the 77th minute you get Lynette being signed to
26:25
Pedimore's to spend you who's what?
26:29
An absolute wizard like a like a wizard.
26:33
Stroke of a ball bends it around, Basha around Ingen gets
26:37
it to you new levels. And then it's one-on-one versus
26:40
Endler for and Wittingham again, who who made a great point of
26:47
saying Endler has had to do 0 for the 1st 77 and change of
26:53
this match and is called into action in a snap of a finger in
26:57
A1V1 situation and comes up absolutely massive because we
27:02
had talked about it. It's only one nil.
27:04
It's one one on aggregate at that point and it's at 78, we're
27:07
in the 78th. They could have won the match.
27:09
They couldn't. They could have won the tie.
27:10
They could have advanced, Yeah. And, and you just think about
27:14
mentally, you know, where, where are they at?
27:17
You know, where are they start so fast and they cool off and
27:20
then, you know, we'll get to kind of like, you know, how they
27:22
close things out. But during that portion of the
27:25
match, it was way in question and I and I, you know, I, I, I
27:30
don't really have a really interest either way.
27:32
You know, we've got probably more friends on the inside for
27:34
sure, but I would love to see just what happens if that goal
27:38
goes in what that response is like, because that is high,
27:42
high, high alert. We didn't we didn't really get
27:44
to that neon kind of gets to, you know, ride their their their
27:49
strength, conditioning in depth to to the win here.
27:52
But that that would have been just absolutely fascinating.
27:54
It but huge, huge play from Endler.
27:57
I've I've asked Claudia Dickey, you know, US Women's National
28:02
team keeper, contender for US Women's National team #1
28:06
goalkeeper, current number one goalkeeper for Seattle Rain
28:09
Football Club in the NWSL. I've asked her directly about
28:15
those matches where, or those those spurts in matches where
28:20
you know, your, your, your attack is doing enough, your
28:23
defense is doing enough to where you are kind of you're on your
28:27
toes, your control, you're, you know, you're pointing around
28:30
talking to your defense and all that, but you don't have to make
28:32
a lot of saves and then boom, you have to, you have to snap
28:38
into action. And she was just like, I'm, I'm
28:41
going to paraphrase here because I don't remember the exact
28:43
quote. It was, it was multiple months
28:45
ago. But she was just like, you have
28:47
to, you have to think about what happens when I have to make that
28:51
dive or like when I, when I have to be called into action.
28:54
I I got to imagine it's an incredibly difficult part of
28:58
being a goalkeeper. I mean, it seems impossible to
29:03
be honest. I mean, you know, I lose
29:05
attention much faster than 77 minutes very often during the
29:10
day. So I couldn't imagine that and
29:13
the pressure of that situation, but huge keeper stepped up into
29:17
a huge spot. I mentioned Basha just want to
29:19
hit a couple of the quick points.
29:21
Obviously gets the assist on the Damaris dagger at one O 5 + 2 an
29:26
assistant. The ITC personal record book too
29:29
on the Mochi du Barney in the 102nd.
29:31
Didn't get the official one, but she put the ball in and made it
29:35
happen, right? Leads the match. 132 touches.
29:39
Leads the match with nine chances created. 15 passes into
29:43
the final third. This is the part that I love
29:45
those six shots, 3 on target, not some that we're used to.
29:48
And then we mentioned those two super close calls, the one that
29:52
that Johanna save in 56 and then that free kick on the at 86.
29:55
And she really, really was looking for it.
29:57
I'm going to be kind of watching to see if that becomes more
30:01
recurring because she very famously not a big time goal
30:04
scorer, but I mean, she was the the the hub of everything that
30:08
Leon was doing today. You are the inventor.
30:12
A year too humble of a guy to to say this, but I will do it.
30:16
I'll shout out my guy here you are the inventor of the term
30:22
boshable, which should be universally recognized across
30:27
all women's football punditry. It was a great call by you two
30:31
years ago. We're talking about at this
30:33
point and, and we talked about player ratings and how, you
30:37
know, they could be subjective and like different websites have
30:39
different stuff. I'm going to, I'm going to call
30:40
out fat mob again. Our pals over there in, in
30:42
Norway who run that website, some of Basha had a 9.4 rating.
30:48
It was the IT was the best player rating in the match
30:50
according to them. I mean, before I even looked at
30:54
that, because obviously I'm in full nose spoilers, I can't
30:56
look. But an hour into that match, I
31:00
mean, tell me if I if I'm talking crazy here, she was way
31:05
the best player on the field. Yeah, I mean, I would say I
31:11
would say the best player in the field, but the player that the
31:16
ball just kept going to, you know, that like it was just
31:18
like, all right, let's let's get, you know, boss of the ball
31:21
and let's let's all kind of, you know, slot in around that.
31:25
And I think it it was played to really, really good effect
31:27
defensively. She was really good a great, you
31:29
know, aggressive on offense and I mean, you know, the the
31:33
crosses when you can have those, that's great when they can rack
31:36
up corners, obviously 2 two goals off a Bosch of corners
31:42
late in the match and she just stays super sharp.
31:46
There's no kind of there's no real knocking her off her game.
31:49
You know, you can't really muscle or you can't bully her.
31:51
There's there's she's the antidote for her.
31:55
Absolutely. Yeah, she's a bully.
31:57
I love that. But yeah, great game from her.
31:59
And then the last quick note 119 Leon gets their 4th Tabitha
32:05
Chewinga. You mentioned Lil Johannes came
32:07
on the show, referred to her as tabby.
32:09
I call her Tabby now. I just, I'm just at my house,
32:11
just I just adopted it. Here we go.
32:15
I just want to call out one of my favorite little micro moments
32:19
in football. You know when the ball is going
32:22
out to Chewinga and right before it gets to her foot, she does
32:26
that stretch of the leg and stretch of the arms almost like
32:29
the Jordan brand. I know, you know, I'm talking.
32:31
She's just like, like, it's almost like I'm gonna wind up.
32:33
She's like, and now I'm gonna go, 'cause like the balls almost
32:36
here and I just love you. Do you know what I'm talking
32:38
about? I know exactly what you're
32:40
talking about. I love it.
32:41
No, it's fantastic. Yeah.
32:42
And that's her like, I like, she's just like getting yourself
32:46
ready to be like, and, and the defender's like, oh God, which
32:49
way is she going to decide to go?
32:51
Because she can stretch and then pull it back or she can stretch
32:54
and then go to the end line And then you're a defender.
32:58
And you know me as a guy who like played right back or, and
33:00
then sometimes played and often played center back.
33:04
It's just like, OK, I'm in big trouble because I know the
33:07
player I'm going against is way faster than me.
33:10
I know I I will tell you with great certainty I will
33:13
disrespect all my opponents. In my crappy high school
33:16
football that I played, nobody was one one millionth as fast as
33:20
Tabitha Chewinga. But you have to decide.
33:24
OK, I guess I got to pick a side here and I hope I'm right.
33:28
And even if I'm right, I still might not have a chance.
33:32
Yeah, and a chance was not had by by anybody on that on that
33:38
sequence. I just love seeing Chewinga get
33:40
that goal because, you know, she was just that moment.
33:44
He was like, all right, I got I got this and I could take a RIP
33:47
from here. But I know that if I just do
33:51
these three extra steps, I I can essentially walk it in.
33:55
And it's what she does. I love Yeah, that was so great
33:59
when she turned it inside and then had the RIP.
34:02
Like like, hey, Tim was not the only like true goal scorer in
34:06
this. Family.
34:06
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, we, that's we came up on tab with a
34:10
joint. So here we go.
34:13
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here?
34:18
I do I mean, you talked about Salma Basha and so you talked
34:23
about. So let let me I'm trying to
34:25
remember this because you talked about great jerseys.
34:28
You're number 77 guy. Obviously you don't want to get
34:31
a Luka Doncic's jersey for the Lakers.
34:33
I understand on GP for that. So you talked about an older
34:36
jersey. I I just this the bosha #4 for
34:43
Leon in the dark blue jersey. That's a clean jersey dude.
34:48
And she's such a great player. And you coined the term Bosha
34:52
ball. I was watching the match like,
34:54
should I get a Selma Bosha jersey?
34:56
I was like, well, I can't do that.
34:58
That's like Dino coined the term Bosha ball.
35:01
But I know. She's so, I mean, she's one of
35:03
my favorite players in the world and, and I know she is for you
35:07
too. 100% yeah. And I think it's just it's like
35:15
it's you know, you know what kind of reminds me of like,
35:16
remember when Damian Lillard came in the league?
35:18
You're like, all right, this is something that's like how how
35:21
good could what's the ceiling on the player that is this size and
35:25
you know it. And and you just realize, oh,
35:28
this player can keep doing new things and keep breaking new
35:31
ground. It's something like the rules,
35:35
the traditional rules of this sport don't apply to this
35:38
player, you know, and you can't really understand why.
35:41
Doesn't make really make sense, but just the way it is.
35:45
Just seeing that, it was like, I don't know, that's, that's kind
35:48
of where my head went. Did you notice when there was a
35:51
when there was the pitch invader super late in the match on the
35:56
broadcast you could. You could only see it in the
35:58
corner. Very quickly.
35:59
Basha chases them off the field. OK, No, no, you got to you got
36:04
to go back and look at the replay.
36:06
Pasha was ready to fight and I was just like, all right.
36:09
At that point. I was like, Oh my God, I think
36:11
I'm going to buy have to buy a jersey.
36:12
Like this is my favorite player ever.
36:14
I there's nothing I love more than when stupid fans.
36:19
And if we've made this clear on this podcast before, don't throw
36:22
anything at the players. Don't say anything out of
36:23
bounds. You can Boo, but don't don't say
36:26
wild shit to these to these athletes.
36:27
They're human beings. But if you run onto the field of
36:31
play, there's nothing I love more than you getting worked by
36:36
a professional athlete because you you absolutely earn that.
36:39
You deserve that. And Bosch had like you could see
36:43
Wittingham goes, oh, there's a pitch invader there.
36:46
And you can see Bosch had run after the pitch invader.
36:49
And I was just like, one of my favorite players could've just a
36:54
one in my book. So good.
36:57
Yeah. I mean, yeah, props there.
36:58
And then the whole Leon outfit, who I thought did a great job at
37:03
another. Another shot, too, for Joni
37:06
Heraldes, because I thought the way he played the Subs was
37:10
extremely smart. You know, when you think about,
37:13
I mean, we'll think about the athleticism that gets injected
37:18
down the stretch when you're facing the Wolfsbury team, you
37:21
know, like Du Mornay, Katoto, that show.
37:26
Oh, I'm missing Benya Chewinga. Eggarola Yeah, yeah.
37:30
And. And even Eggarola, who's not,
37:33
you know, an athlete, you know, she's not, she's replacing
37:37
Heaps. So that's another, you know,
37:40
athletic upgrade, especially after Heaps, you know, pulls in
37:42
almost a full shift. So I thought that was a great
37:46
master stroke too. So he gets like the midfield
37:49
chemistry. He gets that that surprise pop
37:52
bronze and starting lineup, you know, Danny Hegerberg, that
37:55
experience there and then is able to kind of come with like
37:59
like an athletic offensive wave that ends up, you know, busting
38:04
down the door, right, you know, over that 10 minute stretch in
38:07
extra time. So ends up being proven right,
38:11
and in a pretty big way. No doubt.
38:13
I mean, and you know, and Stefan Lurch, he brought on Janu levels
38:17
in the 60th. He brought on Korsakai in the
38:20
79th. You know, Zakai didn't have a a
38:24
great match, but levels ended up being one of the better players
38:27
for for Wolfsburg in the match. But that 69th minute sub window,
38:32
and I used to say this about Steve Kerr when people used to
38:35
be like, oh, so smart to bring Andre Iguodala off the bench.
38:38
I'd be like, you know what helps having Andre prime Andre
38:41
Iguodala to bring off the bench. But you know, I love to say it
38:45
IA lot of times I kind of mutter it when we're when we're doing
38:48
these podcasts, I go good sub coach.
38:51
The 69th minute Geraldes brings son Dumornay, Katoto and
38:57
Chewinga. And as it's happening, I'm like,
39:00
yeah, good sub coach. That's a good, that's a good
39:02
that's a good window. And that won, that won the game
39:06
for him. Yeah, yeah, no.
39:09
And there's a lot of ways to get them the the mixing and matching
39:13
wrong too, you know, sure, I, I don't really want to just pick
39:16
out good players again, you know, like, oh easy, anybody can
39:18
do that. But no, it's because I thought,
39:20
I thought the, the, you know, the, the groupings worked really
39:25
well. You know, to, to to you like you
39:27
can see it the first 20 minutes, no doubt, like how overwhelming
39:30
and and unpredictable they were. And then you could see it again
39:33
in extra time when again, the dam just broke for Wolfsburg and
39:38
shout out to Lurch and, and, and Wolfsburg as well, who I thought
39:41
outperformed like super tough. And then we talked about that
39:44
levels chance that goes in. It's completely different.
39:48
We might see them in the semifinals, but ultimately I
39:51
think the the the football gods got their way.
39:53
We got we got 4/4 the blue bloods and the semis can be
39:56
pretty excited and Champion League back.
39:59
April 25th, 3 short weeks away, we'll get Byron hosting
40:03
Barcelona and Arsenal hosting Leon to kick off the semis.
40:09
I mean come on man 4 giant clubs, great teams, great
40:15
players. I mean, what more could you
40:17
possibly ask for? This tournament is just
40:20
delivering as it has every year that we've been covering it,
40:25
obviously long before we've been covering it.
40:28
But we're I'm just so psyched to to talk about, you know, all
40:32
these matches with you and and all of our pals out there who
40:35
are enjoying the show. Yeah.
40:37
No doubt. What else, what else, what more
40:39
could you ask for? How about couple, couple of
40:40
three dates versus Japan coming up here in April over the
40:44
international break. Those would be a lot of fun and
40:47
we're going to have to be so coverage all season long,
40:50
especially after the Champions League winds down wind the end
40:53
of the self cover way back up and then in the meantime, we'll
40:56
just kind of bounce the two. We'll see.
40:59
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41:02
All right, man, I think we've gone and done it.
41:05
Is there anything else you want to hit for a get out of here?
41:07
I think the absolute last thing that I want to mention, Alexi
41:12
Poutaez has thirty career UAFO Women's Champions League goals.
41:18
Eva Pyor has 4040 Women's Champions League goals.
41:24
She is 6 behind Marta. Is that a good player?
41:29
I think Pyor is going to get, I think Pyor is going to get that
41:33
six and several more. You know, during that, during
41:37
that drubbing of of Real Madrid when Pyor scored 40.
41:42
Obviously, she's the first Polish player to ever achieve
41:45
the the 40 mark. It just made me realize like
41:49
just what a what a machine Barcelona is.
41:54
But it also made me realize that Pyor just has a nose for the
41:58
goal. And I know Alexia is an
42:00
attacking midfielder and all that stuff, but for her to have
42:03
30 and Pyor from her time at Wolfsburg and now Barcelona,
42:06
obviously to already have 40, just an incredible
42:10
accomplishment. Congratulations to her.
42:13
Yeah, insane. And I think she had that goal
42:16
too today where it's off the header, then she gets the the
42:23
rebound, comes back. And you know, when you mentioned
42:26
Misa, that was the first, that was the first play I thought of
42:29
was like Misa befuddled. Like what the fuck we she?
42:32
Just throws her hands. She's sitting down and just
42:34
throws her hands up. And and I think, you know, on
42:37
that play, by the end of it, it's I think it's even Navarro
42:41
Mesa and and a third defender maybe are just on all three on
42:44
the floor and by yours just standing with her arms up like I
42:47
have scored again. It's just like she's just
42:50
inevitable. Of course, no doubt.
42:53
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42:55
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43:28
whenever it happens, if it's if It's A Knockout stage episode, a
43:32
knockout round of football, a knockout, you know, play a
43:36
series of shows. I already know I'm going to get
43:38
the the best out of my guy. I'm going to give my best.
43:41
And you know, we're going to do our best to survive in advance.
43:45
I appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy, and you know
43:48
what, while we while we do our best you, you can do your best
43:51
and still fall short sometimes. So I, I want to mention real
43:54
quickly, I think in the last episode I called Barcelona
43:57
stadium camp new and I know better look, I was doing a white
44:01
guy pronunciation. I screwed it up to everybody, to
44:06
all our Barcelona pals. I know it's camp no, but I've
44:10
also seen like the Spanish pronunciation is camp.
44:12
Like people say it's camp no, but with like AUA slight U at
44:17
the end. I don't know what that means,
44:19
guys. I, I just don't know what that
44:21
means. Like I my Caucasian tongue has a
44:23
really difficult time pronouncing that.
44:25
So I'm what I call the camp new. It is camp no, I apologize to
44:29
Pep Guardiola. I apologize to to Gerard Piquet.
44:33
I know Patrick Clivera is Dutch, but he was a monster when I used
44:37
to play FIFA on on video games for Barcelona, Luis Enrique,
44:42
everybody. I apologize to all Barcelona
44:44
supporters and players everywhere that I mispronounced
44:46
the name, but I don't know if anybody in the comments held me
44:50
accountable for that. But I apologize to you as well.
44:52
But thank you for dropping knowledge in the comments,
44:55
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44:57
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44:59
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45:02
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