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NWSL Weekend Recap ⚡️ KC Current Win Big | Angel City, Dash, Spirit, Racing Louisville Get Wins · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Oh, okay. Welcome to into Channel podcast
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primarily about women's football.
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I am your host Dino de Cespedes and as always, I am joined by
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Michael host, Mr. Grant Engel. What is up, man?
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I'm feeling all right buddy, that was certainly an eventful
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match week. 8, got lots of talk about some good, some bad, some
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terrifying, but, you know, unbalanced.
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It was another exciting week and I'm looking forward to chatting
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about it. We did that recap.
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I'm sorry. We did that preview Friday night
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got excited. I'm not sure that we nailed our
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both our most. I don't think we hit our power
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rankings of which matches we're gonna hit, and which weren't a
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lot of surprises up and down some upsets.
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If you'd, if you nail all set, seven picks his weekend props to
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you because this one was very difficult to predict, But I got
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to the way here. Mr. Granite where do you want to
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get started? All right, let's do.
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Chronological order. We'll start from Friday night
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first match of the Slate racing Louisville one.
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Gotham FC nil. This one I mean talk about
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surprises I mean you know racing Louisville they've been on our
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mind they've been on our show last couple weeks in terms of
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like unpredictability but we know what they're about.
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They're about putting shots up there, they're about kind of
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like running and gunning and they're developing a little bit
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of chemistry. I was just I was excited to see
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what Gotham would look like on the other side because those
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that attacking for that, they put forward Jason the left
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Midge, purse a stair and Japan ski They were flashes.
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And I think it's more about like what is that attacking unit
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going to look like more than what they look like in this
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match? This match?
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I think it was just flashes, but I think you can kind of see
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something started to get together here.
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No, and that's not to even speak of Gabby Port two, yo, who could
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even, you know, take that, that group up a level.
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Yeah, I think that's a great point.
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I think, you know, Jace was able to test Bloomer for Louisville
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at least a couple times. It didn't feel like the bats
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brought their finishing boots to this one.
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Obviously, they don't, they don't Notch any goals, but they
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had some chances. I think you're spot on that.
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You have to project forward with what this attack is going to
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look like. And I checked it before we got
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on and my notes, like watching the game live, I had wrote that.
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I bet, I bet the bats won XG in this one.
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And I think the when I looked on FB ref I think it was 0.9 for
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Gotham and 0.5 for a little but that's doesn't win you anything.
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You don't get any points for that.
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That's why we stick to real g in these parts.
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Yep, definitely definitely a real G Enterprise here.
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And speaking of real G56 minute Taylor, Flint scores to
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basically, you know kind of like put this one Out Of Reach.
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I was excited to see obviously Flint score and I think
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Louisville's got their own set of interesting attacking
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players, obviously jeanine's form of the genie.
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Becky Savannah. Demelo is I mean, physically,
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like athletically doing some things that I just have not seen
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a lot of players doing globally in the game.
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She's drawing a ton of fouls. She's super just, I mean,
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Impossible to kind of like pin down defensively.
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You think she's going one way? She's going the other way.
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She's very creative. She's very quick.
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And she just, she moves almost like a blitzing outside
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linebacker where she could kind of contort and go fast and go
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slow and high and low and left and right.
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And just I mean proven to be a great playmaker for louisvill.
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But yeah, I think, you know, racing goes up in this one,
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Cannon shot, from 2627 years out and catching Burger nowhere near
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the shot. I mean I think it's hard to
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imagine that from that distance. A keeper could be a keeper that
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good could be that far away from the Finish, but I mean that's
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just how good that strike was from from from Flint.
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Absolute laser from Flint and good to see from her, you know,
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a player that people often expect to just score with
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headers, obviously, giving her her height advantage and most
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situations. But yeah, absolute Banger from
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her. No chance for unconstant burger
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and that there you go. Where there's, there's our table
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movement. I obviously, we didn't think
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that like Gotham would walk all over Louisville.
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We've been kind of confused about him but we know they have
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good players and the weekend was Off to the Races with with an
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interesting result right off the bat.
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Yeah, for sure. And I think Louisville
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defensively they were pretty stingy.
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As mentioned Jace, had some really good moments in the first
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half was probably their best creator.
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But yep. They they kind of locked it down
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and I think that that's too straight scoreless weeks for
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Gotham. Which is weird because I kind of
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walked away from this one being like this seems coming you know
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but also the team too straight. Shut up two straight weeks so
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that I guess is just asleep, right?
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yeah, I mean that's just bound to happen and I don't I don't
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even know what I'm doing here but in honor of that in honor of
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that Taylor Flint strike, we might as well crack the
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beverages because I think That deserves a cheers.
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And forgetting, I might have to sort of open this one, from 26,
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to 17 yards out as as punishment, but we'll skip that
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for later. Cheers.
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Cheers to the Football. Cheers, you cheers to the
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football. I think seriously was all right.
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We're, we're gonna keep this baby on time.
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What's next? My good, man.
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All right, going chronological as we do, Angel City, 2 Utah,
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Royals nil. We talked about this one as a,
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okay, who is for real, and how for real is for real kind of
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game for Angel City. They've been surprising in
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spots. They've been exciting and spots.
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They've gotten wins where they probably.
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Would have lost last year for for just a lot.
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You know, just not to oversimplify it, but that's just
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kind of like what it is. And in this one, you know, it
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was very curious to see what angel said he would look like
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against the team that they should be.
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You know, like pretty much flat out at home that Utah Royals
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side. Who was getting me, it's not go
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back. I think looked really good, you
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know, kind of getting back into the mix for Utah.
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She just brings like a real like I'm gonna go right now, you
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know, speed that I think Utah kind of really needs.
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I thought most England was really good to on the other
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side. I'm just taking advantage of the
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opportunities. The Ford tour as well.
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Uh, but yeah, ultimately use how a little bit over matched in
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this one. Yes.
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But I mean, you know, Kristen press comes on, shout out to
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Moira Sheridan, from ion, slash CBS, who, you know, seconds
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after Chris. And press comes on starts
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talking about how Christian press is probably going to want
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to try to get the ball onto her left foot and you know, people
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know that. But as she's saying it presses
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streaking down the right hand side, cuts in to get the ball
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onto her left foot and score that, that great goal.
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So shout out to more shared in for that.
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Yeah, I mean, you talk just, you mentioned to knock a coming
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back. That's obviously gonna make a
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huge difference over time. But Angel City just looked look
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to the better team in this, what they had, nearly 60% possession,
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more shots, you know, more big chances, they just looked more
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dangerous. And that's what, that's what
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we've been kind of lamenting with Utah year.
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They just never look super dangerous unless it's like,
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unless they're counting on a sentence or wonder strike.
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Yeah, the the I think one thing to kind of think about too is
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like Utah looked so poor. I think to open the season,
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that, I mean, at least for me, I was looking for almost for baby
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steps with this match, like let's let's kind of get things a
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little bit back on track and there's some stuff I think to
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build on, potentially, you know, they do not 15 shots, they do
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have the shot on target Advantage.
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This one seven to five over Utah.
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You mentioned in that Kristen press School, 22 seconds, after
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she comes on. Obviously, super scary moment.
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About 10 minutes later when Savvy King goes down. to
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non-contact, you know, kind of looked a little disoriented
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ultimately, is Richard off the field, you know, got some oxygen
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Still not a ton of War. I was checking this morning to
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see if there was an updated. I think the updates are fairly
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vague but obviously, you know, this is a, you know, a full
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saving suborder show. So we've obviously got our
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fingers crossed and definitely made the rest that match kind of
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weird, but all we can do. I think, you know, is hope for
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for the best for Savvy king and you know a fast and full
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recovery. Yeah, no doubt.
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I mean I think I most football fans like the the closest thing
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that that people could think of was Christian Eriksen and the
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2020 European Champion chips. And that's just, that's
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terrifying. I mean, anytime the medical
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staff comes on the field and you think that, or I don't think it
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was on camera, but if I understood correctly please, you
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know, correct me if I'm wrong in the comments.
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But I think they said that it was mentioned that CPR was used.
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When you have that many people who are medical Pros on the
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field and they stretch your somebody off. you know it's it's
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hard to say like what to do in those situations but I I just
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can't help but think like when you have players crying on the
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field when you have players like concerned that their teammate or
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that their opponent on the field, stopped breathing I lean
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toward postpone, the remainder of the match because I don't
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think it's it's totally fair to the players to continue playing.
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Um, I also recognize this probably easier for me to say,
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but I feel like that could be a pretty easy, easy rule to
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Institute. yeah, and I think I'm glad you kind of put it that way
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with regards to like rules Institute because Realistically,
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it's probably just a lack of protocol and that situation, you
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know, not, you know, it's not super clear what to do.
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I think I saw the conversation on Reddit the following morning
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or maybe this morning Uh, maybe driven or led by Megalodon.
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You know, but hey, why didn't we really stop this?
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And I was kind of like, okay, yeah, that doesn't make sense,
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probably just stopped it but, you know, I was, I was watching
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this one live in the moment. You know the announcer.
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Like it's just a weird kind of like confusing disorienting
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situation disorienting. I think for everybody involved
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as well. I was about 15 minutes left in
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the game. I think at that point and I
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wouldn't be surprised if this moment Is the Catalyst for new
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protocol, just so it's more clearly understood.
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Hey, and this kind of situation, here's what we're doing, you
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know, it doesn't have to be in the air.
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Nobody has to make a weird. Call and think about.
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Okay, well, this is an ion game, is a Prime game is the ESPN, you
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know? And, you know, like just take
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all of that calculus off the table and get something in place
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so that we can kind of avoid that going forward.
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And obviously, as mentioned Savvy King, hoping for a full
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recovery there. Yeah, today is a Seattle Range.
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Houston Dash match which we'll talk about later.
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They did a nice moment where they had a jersey with Kings
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name, on the back, just, you know, wishing her well saying
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that, you know, the players stand with her.
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So obviously she has widespread support across the leak.
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So obviously, open for that speedy recovery.
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For sure. And you know playing well on a
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new site just that he and was super involved in this game for
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sure. But Get back to it as mentioned
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Chris and press gets that goal, 22 seconds after coming on and
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then Alyssa Thompson. I tweet I am almost, I almost
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said a bad word there. I blue sky this from our account
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continues. Her stealth MVP campaign with a
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late gold assignment door, shut on Utah. 90, plus seven, Alyssa
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Thompson. If you watch if you re-watch the
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first half highlights, it's pretty much just her running up
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the left hand side. Just terrorizing you tell us
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team it's from in different ways like it's just almost like a
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super cut of her of different ways to kind of like attack that
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defense in almost like a coach's Clinic you know type video
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style. But yeah I'm out here man I
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think I think she's gonna be the next MVP.
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I know it's early but you know I want to be at the way at the
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front of the line with that one. I think it's a good move by you.
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I mean, you've been on it from, you know what, obviously her US
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Women's National team performance is great.
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She's stringing those together, she's in good form again in this
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nwsl season like she was in great form at the end of last
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year's season what I think. She's a four goals two assists.
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She's top 10 in like gold, creating actions shot creating
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actions, like I think passes in the final third, maybe pass it
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in the penalty somewhere in there.
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So I mean, she's mounting the campaign.
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I think you, I think your spot on there.
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Oh yeah, last thing I'll say she has a little bit of that. that
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when Alessia Russo, was in a really sick, you know, run of
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form for our son was just like you cannot help, but notice How
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active and how dangerous and then, how much he's such in the
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ball and how like how deep she's driving?
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You know, some of these offensive possessions I think
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she's in that same vein we're just like, you can't you can't
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really not notice what kind of effect she's having on these
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matches so we'll keep an eye on it but let's go ahead.
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This one, I mean it ranked pretty low on our hype meter but
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I think came through in a really big way, especially considering
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the first half an hour of this one was an absolute dud.
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Chicago stars to Washington, Spirit three.
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A lot happened in this one. Where do you want to get
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started? I got a lot of thoughts here.
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You know, I want you to ISO on a lot of those thoughts, maybe I
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can say you have for the alley up here.
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You had mentioned either last show or the show before
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Rosemont. He's gonna be an important
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player to get back with all these injuries.
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Pretty good call by you, my good man.
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I it's funny because I was, I had been taught, I think in the
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last time I mentioned her, I think her last match was a
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little you know not really a little spastic you know Big Time
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energy kind of like pinball around the park involved in a
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lot of really promising stuff but A little, you know like like
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a car that it's alright, it's rattling and pinging around but
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it's got really, really fast. I'm sure cuasi in this one was
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so cool. So smooth involved in everything
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so dangerous or crosses Look like knuckleball.
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Like they just look like comical.
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You know, the movement on them was just for ridiculous and like
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I don't even know what what you do to kind of content with that.
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She always creates an own goal off of each day or early.
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Involved in all the goals, but, you know, pretty much and I
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think it was really surprising. Because that's mentioned the
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first half an hour. Nothing happened.
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Super kg and then it goes back and forth.
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One nil, one one, two, one, two nil, you know, just a couple
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equalizers before we get the late winter from Washington but
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anything, anything stick out to you from from either these two
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sides because I thought You know, Chicago, some some
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interesting stuff that we've talked about their offense, the
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spirit, we talked about their defense.
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Would they look leaky? I think that was definitely on
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display but I don't know what were your big takeaways from
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this one? Okay.
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I'll give credit Grosso, Jimmy's Joseph, Ali Schlegel lewd Mila
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that's a good four you know. Obviously if you put Mouse
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Swanson there that then you feel really great about that but
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those four are solid Still questions about Washington
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Spirits defense right now. I mean, you know, they they're
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dealing with those injuries. They got to kind of get it
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figured out. Yeah.
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Krueger came on in the 70th I was gonna say she didn't play,
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she didn't play much. She got a kind of work her back
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in post injury. And you know we talk about her
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all the time with Trinity Rodman.
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She plays a role on defense as well.
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So now you kind of gotta count for that you're missing.
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Hell herself. Lacey Santos, didn't play in
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this. I know she's not like a
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defensive minded player but, you know, she, she kind of helps
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just the overall health of your of your football team II.
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Like the defense looked vulnerable in spots credit to
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Chicago for for playing through the middle but you you didn't
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get a lot of that last year out of Washington Spirit.
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Like usually they're able to kind of snuff out some of those
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attacks in the middle of the field. yeah, I mean, I think
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yeah, Washington's just get beat by and I don't know, it's, it's
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tough to say, because I feel like the level of play the skill
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level, kind of like continues to elevate every year, you know.
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Basically. So it's almost like a team,
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might stay the same and the team the teams around them, just
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might be advancing at a faster pace.
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But I want to talk about Chicago a little bit.
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They did, they did pretty well, they outshot washed it in this
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one, they get the goal from Grosso on a great move.
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I mean, she, it was one of those where I was great ball from my
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Tony up the pitch and then grow. So, does that one touch?
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I got to get a little space and then a second big touch to get
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even more, you know, usually like a straighter, you know.
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So we might take that shot after the first one.
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So pretty sick move from gross. So great finish great call to on
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that one. And then say I'm stopped for
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Chicago as well on the ultimate given.
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Go go go. Go go go go, go go, 50 yards.
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She was like if anything happens here I'm gonna be a good
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position to get a knock at any exactly what happened and then
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the last Quick no in Chicago. Do I have to do it?
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I think I got to do it. Listen there. it's where we're
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in a, we're in a rough patch right here.
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Eight matches played this season, 32 shots on target
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again. 17 goals save percentage right around 53%, according to
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fuf, that's a League worst, the rest of the league.
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I mentioned, she's at 53 Alyssa there.
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The rest of the league is between 60 and 81.
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So they are a good deal below that.
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I mean, she was getting peppered on this day but you know, she
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you cut, it's starting to stack up a little bit where we might
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need to look at you know, that goalkeeper position for Chicago
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and be like, okay, well we already know the future is
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somewhere else, maybe that kind of gets accelerated a little bit
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in Chicago. Yeah, I mean you know time comes
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for us all and I do think it's also worth pointing out though
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that two seasons go in Chicago, finished dead last.
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I think I think it was in there conceded, 50 goals in League
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Play. And then the next year, they
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made the playoffs. And I think the defense was
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leaving her significantly less exposed, you know, to your
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point. There was some of that in this
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one and there's been some of that this year, I think there's
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in, in terms of the blame pie, I think there's there enough
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slices to go around, but, you know, it would be foolish not to
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be assessing what's next to goalkeeper.
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But, you know, I don't think it's all all her fault either.
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And I know they don't think you're saying that.
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I think, I think it's reasonable.
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It's reasonable. Take to have to say, hey, our
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goal Keepers, getting up there, in age.
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We got to look at what's next eventually.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think we'll keep it on
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that some quick notes within comes on the match.
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She had a kid. I'm not sure she was a free cake
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but she Uncorked one that hit Carey Recaro and it look like
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she got shot. Just kind of folded over, not
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not jealous of hero that welcome back with you and then another
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funny, but not a funny moment but Mikayla Johnson 17 year old
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comes on for Chicago. Who was a u-17 standout for Team
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USA. So stop me if you've heard this
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one before. Young standout Team USA
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experience playing in Chicago, wearing number 23 with the
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initials MJ. I see you Mikayla Johnson.
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I, I, you know, it's that it didn't go unnoticed, you know,
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the kind of the package that that the Johnsons are putting
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together in Chicago. That's it.
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That's a great call. I didn't put that together.
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She wears number 23. Good for her.
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They gotta play that. That's Whatever the song is
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during the intro. So let's get.
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Let's get back. Whatever the name of that song
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is everybody knows what is anybody was even around our age.
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Knows what that is if you hear it but I don't know the name of
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it. Yeah, no.
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Well, we'll track it down last night, Kingsbury.
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I think great match, really cementing her her place that
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maybe at the top of the The goal keeping Heap in the nwsl.
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So we'll, we'll try that as well.
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But, yeah, Big Win for Washington.
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I think, I think I have this, right, that they've won all four
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Road matches this season. Should be a crazy step, but if
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that's true. A pretty impressive.
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What's your take on Washington? Are they like?
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you know, we talked about last year where not last year last
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episode, where sometimes there's a lot of turnover and even if
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players do come back, If it's too many players, the chemistry
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could be an issue to kind of match match things up.
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Do you think this team? I mean will they have enough
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time? You think they're trending the
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right direction? In terms of training the right
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direction. I think, you know, we gotta see
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some of the players come back, but I think you would be crazy
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to write him off, like they're gonna be, I think they'll be
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able to kind of, hold on and keep themselves and striking
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disease in within striking, does distance.
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Pardon me of, you know, the top spot.
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I think they can still challenge for the shield as the way we
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see, kind of Orlando and Kansas City looking Kansas City, kind
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of turn things around and the last two weeks we'll get into
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that later. But yeah, I'm still way in way,
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bullish, on Washington is it's gonna take a lot for me, to, for
22:29
me to stop believing in them. And I think quick look at the,
22:31
at the Fishers, this season, I think you're right.
22:34
I think they've won every single away match that they've had this
22:37
season. And there are other three
22:39
matches, three home matches, they lost all three.
22:42
Because I don't know if that's a rapid.
22:45
Chaos lie, chaos season. Let's go.
22:47
All right, let's go ahead. North Carolina, courage one.
22:52
Or Lando Pride one. Your most sensitive anticipated
22:55
match of match week 8. This one was another weird one.
23:00
I think, in some ways you can look at the stats, And say okay
23:05
well Orlando dominated possession.
23:06
Dominated in the shots. But you can look the other way
23:11
and just say, okay, I mean, you watched the match, the courage
23:15
or are in control of that match, till dip deep deep, deep, deep
23:18
deep or land. Has got to get a very late 90
23:22
plus 3 prescription. You know, just an impossible to
23:27
recreate, you know, equalizer very, very late to be able to
23:31
escape this one with a point. I don't know, what are you gonna
23:34
walk away with having seen the courage I think coming on in a
23:38
really big way here. totally, I think the stats on this are
23:43
completely deceiving from, you know, oh yeah, watching the
23:47
match like and it's funny because we always talk about,
23:50
you know, Sean a house and his style the North Carolina courage
23:53
style possessed the ball, you know, kind of dominate the game,
23:57
have the dictate, the pace of the match, And they just allowed
24:04
Orlando to have the ball and just kind of meander around.
24:06
You're right. It was 15 shots to 7 for the
24:09
pride three shots on target the two, two big chances to one even
24:13
though I'm not sure how big the chance is really felt for for
24:18
Orlando. I think you know none of those
24:22
stats do justice to what really happened.
24:24
I thought courage probably looked the better side for the
24:27
majority of the match and that header, according to my notes
24:31
because it was all, I could really process.
24:33
It's the most, looping is looping header.
24:37
That's ever been looped from Shalia.
24:40
And you know, Murphy just Murphy, couldn't make like heads
24:45
or tails of it and then she's like, she's sandwiched in
24:49
between two Defenders and goes for the punch and it's just it
24:51
falls into the net. It was just the weirdest damn
24:53
ever I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah.
24:55
And it was funny. I think the worst with this but
25:00
the person doing color on that match was like yeah and the
25:05
Heather had some Pace on it and I'm like Yeah.
25:08
Weirdly did kind of have some like, went up.
25:10
I passed it down. All right?
25:13
But you, I went to the footy. Mental.
25:16
This is so stupid, but I was a funny mental exercise was like,
25:18
imagine if Before this play happens.
25:21
Prisca Julia. Pulls you a size.
25:23
Be like, alright, here's what I have in mind.
25:25
I'm gonna go again. Gotta get like a little flick on
25:28
it. It's gonna go about 30 feet of
25:29
the are real really fast and really, you know, come down back
25:32
corner side corner, kind of Twisted in and don't worry, I
25:35
got this. Yes, sir.
25:37
And it actually comes the past. Yeah, I'm just gonna rely I'm
25:41
gonna head it up real high with pace and then gravity's gonna do
25:45
the rest like it's not usually ahead or strategy that that you
25:50
rely on. I also thought, I thought about
25:52
Mr. Bean and I don't know what ton about Mr, Bean.
25:55
But I have seen the clips where he's just like, he'll trip and
25:59
fall, and then he'll like, push over a hot dog cart.
26:02
And that's what stops the thief from like getting away.
26:04
That's how kind of like, how I felt this draw, materialized,
26:08
for, for Orlando, but you need some of those over the course of
26:12
a season and they got it. Yeah, absolutely.
26:15
I think a quick couple notes on North Carolina, I thought Ryan
26:19
Williams played really well. Um, Philly Rao gets the goal, I
26:23
got a real soft spot for Ralph. She, she was on the same episode
26:26
of Leanne Sanderson show that we were on.
26:28
So shout out to everybody shutter Denisa, Sullivan, I
26:33
thought looked really great and you know, the courage didn't
26:36
play that. We're gonna possess the ball,
26:38
you know, styled this Witnesses early but they were physical.
26:42
They kind of, they did keep that physical, you know, we're gonna,
26:45
we're gonna make it tough especially on a player like Mars
26:48
so we're gonna make her feel us. So I thought that they were
26:51
really good there on the Orlando side.
26:54
I've been calling for like that that second attacker to help
26:57
march to get the ball up the pitch.
26:59
I thought go try had some moments and I thought Angelina
27:02
moments. I don't know that they really
27:04
kind of like unlocked it, but it was really good to see them
27:06
investing in that more technical.
27:09
We just has to happen. You know, we know we've got, oh,
27:13
you know, on one side, a Bellow, and pick it on the other.
27:16
What's going on the middle of the field?
27:17
How can we kind of make this work?
27:20
Either way, didn't didn't fully, you know, solve that puzzle, and
27:24
it really made me look at some stats.
27:26
I wanted to compare last year to this year with two players
27:30
Marta, and Barbra Banda, So, I went back and said, okay.
27:35
How often was Marta, touching the ball in the final third last
27:39
year versus this year, right? So she had 480 touches and 1700
27:43
minutes roughly last year, the final third 179, and 654 this
27:48
year. So those last year, it's one
27:52
touch, every 3.6 minutes and the final third from Martha this
27:56
year, One Touch every 3.6 minutes.
27:58
Incredibly consistent almost the exact same figure really weird
28:02
but she's the goat. These things I don't try to
28:05
explain them. I just look at the numbers then.
28:07
I looked at bandar. How many touches did she getting
28:10
in the penalty area? Last year, one every eight and a
28:13
half minutes. This year won every 11 minutes.
28:16
So it's taking her a lot longer to kind of see that ball deep.
28:21
And I think that is emblematic when you think about, okay, Mark
28:24
to get Martin is getting touches in the final third at the same
28:26
as last year, but Ben does not getting touches deeper at the
28:30
same rate. So where is the breakdown?
28:32
Why can't the ball get up there? Why can't we kind of continue?
28:35
Why can't those numbers kind of increase versus backside and
28:39
such a big way but I don't know, that's kind of what I saw.
28:42
Like an inability to kind of take advantage of that and just
28:45
kind of create more chances for those two attackers.
28:49
Yeah, I mean, that's that's great stuff out of you.
28:52
And I feel like just watching the matches, like, I can kind of
28:55
feel that now. Like I had no idea what that
28:58
number looked like in terms of Ben's touches in the penalty
29:01
area. But I just knew I've just known
29:03
like she's not on the ball enough down in those dangerous
29:07
areas and you talk about like who's gonna be the third player
29:09
to kind of help get her. The ball was how can the
29:12
Midfield? Kind of provide some more
29:13
service. It just felt like she was out on
29:15
the break so often last year and even when teams would try to
29:19
stop it, they couldn't stop it. And now, it's like they found a
29:23
way to kind of slow that down a little bit.
29:25
So, Again, this is another team and they also just had some
29:29
defensive breakdowns. In this one like chivalry had a
29:33
had a giveaway. They just had some things that
29:37
you just never saw last year. And you can't expect the team to
29:41
go to be in Invincible Dynasty, like two years in a row.
29:46
So obviously there's going to be some backsliding there but I
29:51
think it it's really boiling down to their seams to be.
29:53
There's lacking that connectivity and maybe some of
29:58
it is from from the defense to the Midfield to the attack.
30:01
But if it feels like mostly from the Midfield to attack and I
30:03
think I think the stats you sighted kind of bear that up.
30:06
Yeah I think a lot of changeover defensively too like oh yeah I
30:11
obviously getting worked in shavu she and the starting
30:14
lineup again you know so you talk about half your back four.
30:18
But Carson Pickett, you know, being worked into the lineup in
30:22
a bigger way than than she was late last season.
30:25
So definitely a lot of change over I think a lot like last
30:30
year, I think sabine's Haley, Carter playing the long game,
30:32
you know, trying to make sure that they're going to be ready
30:35
peeking late in the season. So I have to imagine it's that
30:41
because it's not as if things have gone stale.
30:44
You know, I think it's it's sort of, in the other way.
30:46
A lot of changes. A lot of experimentation, a lot
30:49
of tinkering, you know. So I think you will see still
30:52
early. I think pretty encouraging, you
30:54
know, we kind of joked about the hot seat but they break that
30:57
little mini skid. Get off the mini schneid with
31:01
the draw and a building, that's been a little tough for them
31:04
heading to carry. And then I was a late equaliser
31:08
at that, probably maybe a little bit to lift their spirits.
31:12
Yeah, I think so. I mean, it's just like, like I
31:15
mentioned earlier, like, sometimes you just got to get
31:17
some, you got to get some weird results.
31:19
If you're gonna be a top of the table team like and and you have
31:24
to get a weird, a couple weird results that are going to go in
31:26
your favor and then you see like, on the on the flip side,
31:28
when you're a bad team, you get some weird results that don't go
31:32
in your favor. And that a lot of times, like in
31:34
a league where the, where the teams are bunched up like this,
31:37
that's often the difference. Absolutely.
31:42
Let's go ahead though. Saturday's third match.
31:45
Yeah I guess the late match Saturday night San Diego wave
31:48
one Portland towards one more wackiness here.
31:51
A lot of stuff that we talked about in the preview for this
31:55
week on display, San Diego, Precision football, you know,
32:01
get it done, you know, picking their spots in the pickiest of
32:04
ways. And then Portland on the other
32:06
side, kind of like tidal. Waving it over with trying to
32:09
overwhelm you with activity. You know.
32:12
Is it good activity? We don't know, but they're going
32:14
to try anyway. What would you see in this one?
32:19
I mean Perla Moroni continues to impress the ascanio goal.
32:24
I just I thought Jordan Drew. Yeah.
32:27
Jordan Angeli on the call had a totally right.
32:30
Like a Scania O's break like to stay on side and then break
32:34
perfectly as Maroni's, providing service to get the header.
32:39
I thought that was, that was just a work of art.
32:41
That's just great attacking football and I think we could
32:45
just safely start calling them, your San Diego wave.
32:48
I don't know if that's gonna cause any any Ripples, and as
32:52
you cause start to cover BFC, but you again just credit to you
32:56
for for spotting there's a balls, you know.
32:59
I don't know, we don't keep an eye on that.
33:02
There you go. I mean, I just and then even
33:06
after, so Kennedy Wesley gets the red card, she was engaged in
33:09
a wrestling match with the Olivia Moultrie.
33:11
I, you know, I don't love a red card in that spot.
33:14
But, like, Moultrie is gonna be on with the keeper Wesley's,
33:19
falling down and kind of has like this jumping like trip.
33:21
Maneuver that I don't think was necessarily intentional.
33:24
It's just they, they got tangled up.
33:26
And the wave were able to kind of hold, you know, hold the line
33:31
as long as they possibly could. But then, Just nwsl after dark
33:36
things happen. And I just, I just don't know if
33:40
I, if I want to say never change.
33:42
Nwsl after dark or please change.
33:45
Nwsl after dark because sometimes I'm just like, you
33:47
gotta be fucking kidding me with some of these things that
33:49
happen. You know. it does make for good
33:53
good subject matter, you know, very chewy material that we've
33:57
got You know. It's a foul like it's what makes
34:05
it feel. Gross is, you know, you see the
34:08
Reflow, the whistle, you look up at the clock and then you're
34:11
like you can see the 95 minutes and then it says plus five.
34:15
So you're like alright, oh wow. This was literally, this could,
34:19
you know, a second later we might not be in this situation,
34:21
which just gives it a weird tinge.
34:24
But it's a foul. Credits to Jayden Perry the
34:27
rookie steps up. Barry's the penalty cake.
34:29
I think with with great pounds I think and I think with the, with
34:34
the volume of what Portland was able to do, you know, just
34:37
peppery shots, just pushing forward.
34:40
I mean, I even, I even took it to the point where I'm like if
34:43
this team had Sophia Wilson, how good would this team be because
34:48
they look, Difficult to deal with and, you know, like you
34:53
hate to see the the game flipped that late, you know, on a
34:57
penalty. But probably a goal that at the
35:00
end of the day, they deserved, Yeah, I think that's that's
35:03
probably fair and you totally right?
35:04
I mean coffee you know plays it right gets gets into the into
35:10
the penalty area and gets tripped and it's a great point
35:14
about Sophie Wilson and I was foolishly, I was ready to to
35:19
count this team out same with and, you know, they just, they
35:24
are turning into maybe not even turning into.
35:29
Maybe it's just like you and I like, we've obviously only been
35:32
watching the league for a couple years.
35:33
I am aware of the history of Portland.
35:35
Thorns, I think I may have just underestimated that this might
35:39
be the NWS Miami Heat and they just have, they're just gonna be
35:43
a pain in the ass and super tough no matter what and then
35:47
when you give them the Stars they compete for the title.
35:49
Hmm. Apologies buddy, that's gotta
35:52
hurt. I thought you were gonna say
35:55
this is his team slowly becoming my Portland or?
35:57
No, just kidding. I wouldn't have done it.
36:00
Anyway, we came to that. Well, I came into this week,
36:02
really excited about this match. This one a little bit under
36:06
underwhelming, but I think I nailed the, the personas in this
36:10
one with San Diego, kind of winning through precision and
36:13
Portland, just kind of crank it up.
36:16
But you look at Portland, that's 21 shots.
36:18
Only four On Target. That's funny in and of itself.
36:21
But yeah, I think these two teams for different reasons.
36:26
Absolute teams to watch absolute threats to make this year's
36:29
playoffs, speaking of threats to make the playoffs.
36:33
And probably to go much further than that.
36:34
Let's get back. Casey current for Bay.
36:38
FC won your boy made the first West Coast Eastern Pacific
36:43
mistake a route on my side. I woke up and I'm like let's
36:46
fire this baby up. It was way over.
36:48
Wow. Had to watch it on the replay.
36:53
All good though. Enjoyed my time.
36:56
With a great friend of the show Leanne Sanderson.
36:58
Oh, quick programming. My little be on the show this
37:00
this week with us. Talking barsa, talking Arsenal,
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She's gonna hang out with your boys and the legend, Lee, and
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citizen talking James and final. But back to it, Casey current
37:14
for Bay FC one. What do the people need to know
37:17
about this one? Kansas City is the real deal.
37:21
Nobody ever doubted it for a single second.
37:23
Nobody should have doubted it for a single second.
37:27
Speed. You know, I think you had
37:29
mentioned Orlando on the mini Schneider, Kansas City current
37:33
for a team at the top of the table who had lost two
37:36
consecutive matches. I believe.
37:37
I referred to that as a full Schneider.
37:39
I don't know what a Schneider is.
37:41
I don't know why that saying is what it is.
37:43
It's fun to say, either way be against the goal, three minutes
37:48
in to just let everybody know what this match is gonna be
37:52
like. But then Her Brazilian teammate
37:55
to being ya. Took matters into her own hands
37:58
and just pretty much slam the door shut on this one before we
38:01
even got the half-time. Absolutely, I think kind of
38:05
weird seeing that that opening be a goal.
38:08
Like, you know, we talked about, you know, silk with something
38:10
this on this pod. For sure BFC keeper.
38:14
She sort of kicks it out in the direction of one of her
38:17
forwards, but it's such a, it's such a softball.
38:19
It's like one of those like, You know, it looks like a plastic.
38:23
It's pick six tonight in high school game just like such a
38:26
Looper Hailie. Mace is able to just get there
38:28
with plenty of time. One touch it up the pitch.
38:32
To be a who's all alone, super dangerous position.
38:36
It just looked like there was a force field around her and be a
38:40
just, you know, runs up, you know, buries it sticks, the
38:43
Ronaldo Sally, that was awesome. And then you mentioned it to
38:46
Binya. I mean.
38:49
The first goal wild, the free kick.
38:53
I, I wrote my notes that let me, let me just kind of get to this
38:57
because I kind of got to get to the what I had in the free kick.
39:01
so basically, for being a hit it with that much Pace, height and
39:07
movement, even if it was hit right at silkwood, I feel like
39:10
she could have missed it. Maybe so nasty, and it did it
39:16
had all that and then it had the placement.
39:19
Top left just impossible to get to What a wicked free kick.
39:25
Yeah, I mean, how do you want it from Deena party?
39:28
I mean, because in that first goal, it was a good goal by
39:32
Claire Hutton. And as you mentioned are people
39:35
camping. Was that it was a wicked ball
39:38
from hunting. That was another kawasi, like
39:40
curler Yeah, it was it was a really good pass and, and our
39:46
pal Leanne Sanderson Champions League winner, Leanne Sanderson
39:49
pointed out. It's a great pass from hunting,
39:51
but to be still had some work to do to kind of like get it under
39:54
control. I could it like the way hunt
39:57
kind of chipped it over it, needed it like bounced off it to
40:00
being his knee and she plays it perfectly gets the goal, then
40:03
she shows you what she has on the free kick.
40:06
She's just, you know, superlative talents, superlative
40:09
skill, it's just, you know, and when she's when she's got a
40:13
going and chewing, ga and Bea are on the field and Hutton and
40:17
labonta and deeper Bernardo that they're virtually impossible to
40:22
stop. Yeah, it was great.
40:23
Yeah it's speaking of deep, Bernardo the chewing gets the
40:28
fourth one. So Penelope, Hawking scores for
40:30
BFC, make it three one and then there's somewhere Lorena just
40:37
blast one up the field, you know kind of in the direction of the
40:40
Bernardo it takes a weird balance to you know, not able to
40:44
get to it and then doesn't get to board Auto just about the
40:47
air, ten yards, 1050 yards of field.
40:49
And then who's on to it showing up just run and then kind of
40:54
like a couple touches and then bury that one for their fourth.
40:57
So even when they get it wrong, they get it right to your point.
41:00
They're so loaded in the Midfield and the attack team
41:03
looks super scary and they're in a great River.
41:07
Yeah man. I mean, you know, when I talked
41:09
about it, with our pal tomb, obviously, from the current
41:13
moment from shades of blue from the 12, subscribe to all those
41:16
podcasts immediately. Tom is a great dude.
41:18
You know, he mentioned like where his concern meter was and
41:25
he was just rational about it of like yeah, it's a two-game
41:28
losing streak in terms of winning the title.
41:31
He was not really concerned at all, in terms of winning the
41:34
nwsl championship. He was, he had like moderate
41:38
concern over like, hey, you lose two in a row.
41:40
It could push in a rough spot for the shield but he wasn't, he
41:43
wasn't like, you know, there's no there's no Panic time there,
41:46
they just the roster is too loaded.
41:49
We've talked about Lorena who You know.
41:54
I it is a great keeper. It probably just has to get used
41:58
to some of the way like different ways that nwsl players
42:01
like run at her. Like some of just like the
42:03
fierce attacking style probably has to get used to that a little
42:06
more, but what are we going to do is start doubting Lorena.
42:09
Like I think this team is just gonna be absolutely fine and in
42:13
the mix to win both trophies this year.
42:15
It's funny. It's like we're like well you
42:18
know Lorena gave up a gold today that look all they look they
42:25
look awesome. They look like the best team but
42:27
as mentioned long season so Tabs on that.
42:30
One more match to hit. My guy was in the building.
42:35
Seattle. Houston dash, 1 bit of a
42:39
surprise result. I texted you at halftime because
42:43
first half was a real snoozer, but it was what else you got in
42:48
those notes of yours. I mean, yeah, it was a lot of
42:53
kicking the ball around in the middle of the field, you know,
42:57
getting a lot of cardio out there.
42:59
I think there was one shot by each team in the first half,
43:03
neither of, which was on target. It was just kind of, it was kind
43:07
of gross. It was, it was missing out there
43:09
was like, kind of your classic Pacific Northwest rain.
43:12
So there were a couple moves that were like pretty good
43:16
moves, but players were like falling on their ass and like,
43:20
you know you could hear like the ooze and the crowd.
43:22
It was like yeah that was a good move but I also think it's just
43:25
a little slippery out there like they're all not Allen Iverson
43:28
crossovers but like it added disability, entertainment value.
43:34
I, you know, there were, there were multiple moments in there,
43:38
where Maddie darling and Jordan itema.
43:41
Had the exact right idea to try to play, Lyndon B in dolo into
43:47
into space and player on with the keeper and they were just
43:51
like overcooking. Some of those passes it
43:54
happened, it happened to both of them and, you know, you're just
43:57
gonna have some of those games and it goes back to what we were
44:00
talking about in the preview. Is that like we said, like,
44:04
okay, if rain come out here and handle business and deal, get a
44:09
two-nil victory over bottom of the table, Houston Dash.
44:11
You could kind of look at them and say not just because they
44:14
beat the Houston Dash, but if they do something like that, you
44:18
can then say okay this team is going to challenge for something
44:20
because they they're strings together.
44:22
Great results. But in this league sometimes
44:25
it's just doesn't happen and just in sports in general
44:27
sometimes you get these these weird surprising results. yeah,
44:31
do you feel like it was a, it was a kind of like, a bad
44:38
sequence of events, kind of lead here, or do you feel like like
44:43
see, you know, we talked about Seattle, this being a, how legit
44:46
are you talk about this with Angel City as well?
44:48
A team, you should be at coming into your building.
44:53
Do you feel like this was maybe Houston?
44:56
Earning a result. Do you feel like this was
44:58
Seattle kind of fumbling away an opportunity?
45:00
Or was this Seattle? Not quite yet at the level that
45:05
maybe some of us. Me.
45:09
Have might have been expecting from them.
45:14
I think. Okay, so Maggie Graham.
45:18
She got the goal, which was a tap in, but I thought her
45:21
movement was pretty good throughout the message.
45:23
She didn't even touch the ball that much.
45:24
According to our Pals at at fat mob Maggie, Graham had the least
45:29
touches of any out player. Outfield player to play, 90
45:34
minutes what I thought that her movement was good and that she
45:38
was kind of forcing Seattle's defense to make some decisions
45:41
Avery Patterson. Really happy to get to kind of
45:45
watch her live and in person and just kind of like just have
45:48
like, certain moments where I'm just like, okay, let me just
45:51
track Patterson here, just like kind of see how she's moving
45:53
around. No, surprise to anybody Emma.
45:57
Hayes is giving her a look for the national team.
45:59
She's good, she's a smart player, a 22 years old.
46:03
Like, like really has like a lot going for her and kind of put
46:08
Seattle some tough spots too. Did you look cute like,
46:14
Houston's best player Yeah, I think that's probably Fair.
46:19
Yeah, I think so I'd be, I'd be curious what our pal Google has
46:23
to say about it, but definitely I felt like it on this day.
46:25
Um, you know, she she just kind of just created some some
46:29
problems for Seattle, like, whether she's getting forward or
46:33
just kind of patrolling the Midfield a little bit and I just
46:37
want to quote, Laura Harvey on a couple things.
46:40
So, We're Harvey gets in the press conference.
46:43
She's asked like her overall thoughts on the match and she
46:46
starts the bidding with quote. I thought we were lackluster and
46:51
quote and she kind of went on to say that like they never they
46:55
were never, really able to get anything going.
46:57
And she mentioned that like the frustrating part of the
47:00
performance was that she felt like the whole team was
47:02
lackluster. So like she was typical Laura,
47:07
Harvey honest from the jump. But this is what this is.
47:11
What piqued my interest? She said something to the effect
47:14
of what's going to determine our season is not games, like we had
47:17
against Kansas City, she called them Kansas, which her and
47:21
players last week, quick, digression, her, and players.
47:24
Last week, last week, only referred to Kansas City as
47:27
Kansas. And I don't know if that's, like
47:29
a weird thing that like, sometimes like opponents refer
47:33
to Ohio State as Ohio because they know it bothers those,
47:36
those players and the fans. I I digress on this, but like, I
47:40
just think it's weird. That people are calling Kansas.
47:42
I was like, well, they play in Missouri and they're in Kansas
47:44
City, but it's probably, I mean, it's probably like Leicester
47:47
city called luster Cardiff City, call me, you know, I don't know.
47:52
It makes sense. That makes it.
47:54
Yes. Probably not like a purposeful.
47:56
Like this is a funny thing. I just funny quirk.
47:58
Right. You know, there's like we're
48:00
talking about Kansas City Missouri, I can't say Kansas but
48:03
also for some of these folks, they probably don't give a shit
48:05
about any of that because obviously Midwest always
48:08
underdogs nobody cares about the Midwest.
48:10
And anyway, so what what? When Laura Harvey said this,
48:15
like, It's going to determine our season games games like
48:19
today, not like the game we had against Kansas City.
48:21
I immediately thought that was interesting.
48:24
I raise my hand for my press conference question.
48:26
I asked her to kind of expand on that idea.
48:29
I told her I thought I had a pretty good idea of what she
48:31
meant, but could you give us a little more on it and she
48:35
basically said that you have to in the traditional football
48:39
sense, you got to get points from the teams that are going to
48:42
be around you in the table. And I thought that was pretty
48:45
telling is that she figured you know, like your like Houston
48:51
Dash, Angel City of sea, you know, probably Portland at some
48:57
at some point here. Yeah, Louisville.
49:00
Yeah, exactly. Like those teams are gonna be
49:03
competing with them for those last couple playoffs.
49:05
And, like, what we were talking about last week is, if they came
49:09
out here and smashed Houston or like won convincingly over
49:13
Houston, you might be thinking about.
49:15
Okay, we're challenging for fifth place on this table, not
49:18
six, seven, eight. Well, but it's seems like, and,
49:23
you know, long season but it seems like it might.
49:25
It's more realistic for them to be looking at kind of those last
49:28
three spots of the playoffs. Yeah, Seattle still sitting at
49:32
8, but you look at the teams ahead of them, Gotham Portland,
49:36
Angel City, San Diego, Washington, Orlando.
49:38
Casey, those are all Heavy Hitters and then yeah, to your
49:42
point, the teams below them. You can even look at North
49:44
Carolina and be like, okay, three straight results for them.
49:46
Two ones in a draw, they might be coming on.
49:49
But yeah, I think it's interesting.
49:53
I definitely agree with Laura Harvey on that point.
49:56
Where these are the kind of matches that. really dictate
50:01
where the season ends because And it does tie into the
50:06
lackluster point with regards, the whole team because this is
50:09
the kind of match especially coming off.
50:10
You beat the top team in the league, and then you got to go
50:13
home and then play the team at the bottom, you know?
50:16
Mentally, that's a, that's a little bit of a mind, fuck,
50:19
right? Like you gotta be like, how do
50:20
we, how do you even get get to that same?
50:23
How do you even approach the level of of where you were
50:26
mentally and these are all professionals?
50:27
You know should be in theories, easy to do in practice a lot
50:31
harder to do and I think that's kind of also maybe An underlying
50:37
truth about what Laura Harvey said is like in these matches
50:40
when you're playing teams around you.
50:42
You have to go like it has to be three.
50:46
And now you look at this one, it's 3 points.
50:48
The other way with the dash, you know, a team that you might be,
50:51
you know, arm wrestling with down the stretch.
50:53
They get the three you walk away with none.
50:56
So, yeah, I totally understand how that lackluster.
51:02
You know, performance could could just spread and permeate
51:06
just because mentally tough to kind of get it for a match like
51:09
this. Yeah, and that's a great Point
51:12
by you. You weren't even in the press
51:13
conference, but she had mentioned that is that like yeah
51:16
of course we everybody got up for Kansas City current, they're
51:18
top of the table they have Superstars they have the MVP
51:21
like of course everybody was gonna play their asses off for
51:23
that one. For this one is not like they
51:26
didn't try and obviously she was quick to give credit to to
51:29
Houston as well but that's the exact point is that You know,
51:33
you need to rack up points, the absolute worst result, you could
51:38
want at home against the team. That's at the bottom of the
51:41
table. At least, at the time of the
51:42
start of the match was at least splitting points and getting a
51:47
point because that would have, you know, that would have gave
51:50
them a little bit of cushion over over racing Louisville, who
51:53
they play next week so that should be very interesting.
51:56
I, there's one more thing that Harvey said, I wanted to get
51:59
your, your thoughts on because we had talked about, we talked
52:02
about quality of Dickey last week and she has been putting in
52:05
some pretty good performance as I the goal to today, there's
52:10
nothing she was going to do that pass from Gary's.
52:12
Integrum is just a walk-in at that point.
52:15
All started from yazmeen Ryan just ripping the ball off of
52:19
Jordan bug. But Claudia Dickie still was
52:24
able to make some pretty good saves.
52:25
We were talking about her holiday and like that that whoa,
52:29
so read it kind of has some thoughts about Dicky, maybe
52:31
getting some some invitations I was I'm not totally surprised
52:37
because it's her player, but we're RV has an often spoken
52:41
like this in my time covering the team.
52:43
She said about quality that I think the exact phrasing was
52:49
something very was something close to she's either somewhere
52:52
around the best goalkeeper in the league or in her opinion has
52:57
been the best goalkeeper in the League this year.
53:01
But then she went back and told the story about when she watched
53:05
the US Women's National Team trained.
53:07
She was invited to go watch train, I think people know she
53:10
has a relationship with him a haze and you know, their
53:13
friendly. And she said when she came back
53:16
from that US Women's National team training, she came back and
53:19
told Claudia Dickie. There's no reason that you
53:22
shouldn't be part of the squad. It's up to you to get yourself
53:26
there and then she went on to say to even up the ante even
53:30
more, which is the part that really surprised me.
53:32
She said she has something to the effect of this is not direct
53:35
quote because I think quite catch, one of the words she
53:38
used. I think she was referring to
53:40
skill, but she basically said, Dicky has every single skill to
53:44
be this country's number one goalkeeper.
53:47
And I was and I was just surprised at how big of a
53:53
statement that was I mean. They were talking about the
53:59
broadcast to the fact that and I watched so much football, I'm
54:02
not sure what to broadcast it was.
54:03
But there were talking about it. One of the broadcasts that the
54:07
number one spot is as open as it's ever been for this country.
54:13
I mean, I think Dicky she had a great save in this one and and
54:17
I'm not sure if Laura Harvey was locked in on my, I think it was
54:20
shot on target versus You know, XG, I'm not sure.
54:25
I dropped the just the one that's yeah, yeah, it was
54:29
probably like equation. Yeah, it was definitely four or
54:33
five numbers of letters together to create some sort of concept
54:36
that I call you. They can never won.
54:38
Basically, it was like, how well is she performing against the XG
54:43
on the shots that are coming our way?
54:45
She ranked number one in that category and funding enough.
54:48
I was critical listener at the top.
54:50
She was kind of middle of the pack in that, in that category.
54:52
Just, you know, for I'm just gonna close the loop there, but
54:58
I like it, I like it. I mean, I think there's no
55:01
reason to think that the job is is locked up in any given way
55:05
and it's one of those things where, if you can get into camp,
55:08
If you can get into one of these, like big camps, where you
55:11
had one of these big tournaments, that could be it.
55:14
That could be enough, you know, you kind of get hot and you
55:16
know, like maybe like how coach and burger did last year for
55:20
Gotham was able to ride that into, you know, some playing
55:23
time for Germany when frames going to goes down.
55:25
So, You know, literally anything can happen.
55:30
I think Dicky on her best day is as formidable as anyone.
55:35
Yeah. I mean, great size we talked
55:37
about her positioning Laura Harvey, in her, praise of
55:42
Claudia Dickie also said and this is a direct quote, quote,
55:46
she's the best goalkeeper I've ever seen off a cross and quote,
55:51
talking about her ability to kind of get out their High
55:54
Point, the ball and get possession of it.
55:56
So, I mean, You know Laura Harvey is all business.
56:01
Expects a lot out of her players expects a lot out of herself and
56:06
her staff expects a lot out of the club.
56:08
She is not a flowery praise type of manager.
56:14
And so when she said when she just like started rattling off
56:17
all these things about Dickie, I really took notice of it.
56:22
That's very cool. All right.
56:24
Well, another thing to monitor will keep it on it and you'll
56:28
finally get that that Louisville, Seattle, matchup,
56:30
that you've been painting for for a couple weeks.
56:32
Let's go. My favorite, my what's quickly
56:36
becoming my favorite segment of the show, Episode calendar.
56:43
We got an abuse of magic 9, coming up, next weekend, some
56:46
big matchups. Maybe, the biggest possible
56:48
matchup to be made Orlando. Pride, hosting Casey currents.
56:50
Fucking go to your, yes, he had a mentioned that, oh, you're
56:54
heading to Louisville to take on racing, Gotham San Diego, wave
56:58
to open up the weekend that one's exciting Houston.
57:00
Portland, courage Stars, Washington, Utah Bay versus
57:04
Angel City and that West Coast battle closes at the weekend.
57:08
So we'll be all over match week 9 as mentioned prior, the legend
57:12
Lee Anderson coming on the show. This week to talk about the
57:15
Champions League final. Can we talk about our other
57:18
championships? Yeah, I mean, we got a
57:21
confirmation. Let's go.
57:22
All right, so post James final, you already know the zones,
57:26
Chris sharples, the the golden voice.
57:30
Of the golden Tournament of women's football will be joining
57:34
us for the second straight year to recap the Champions League
57:37
finals, fucking appreciate. You sharples.
57:39
And then yeah. Leon coming on this week to chop
57:42
it up. You know, former Arsenal Legend
57:44
a kid. I've got some, the questions
57:47
that I've got for Leanne on the hopper, I think you're going to,
57:49
you're going to be inspired. I think you're gonna be excited
57:52
by those no no lackluster prep from your boy, when it comes to
57:56
the end interview coming up here.
57:59
Yeah, never. I mean we got it.
58:00
We got to show out for the quadruple winner, as you said
58:04
Arsenal. Arsenal Legend has a third place
58:07
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58:10
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58:13
Who talked about this sport? I don't know how it's happened
58:16
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58:19
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58:20
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