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The recent dip in NWSL scoring; a hot Gotham FC; Bethune is HERE; and more · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Oh OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast primarily about
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so definitely check those out. I am your host Dido de Cespedes
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and as always I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Angle.
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What is up man? Feeling fantastic buddy.
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NWSL is back. That's a good feeling.
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The Euros are going on in men's football if anybody is
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interested in that. Before you, before you get that
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interested in that, my apologies.
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I forgot. Happy Father's Day to you.
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Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there putting in the
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work. We appreciate you.
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Father's Day this weekend, Pride Month, we're definitely
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celebrating. So as you were, I apologize.
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I'm going to crack. I'm going to crack the beer with
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you this weekend. No, no worries.
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Happy Father's Day. Yeah.
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Happy Father's Day to you, buddy.
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Oh, delicious. You know, it has to be done
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every once in a while. You got to celebrate the dads.
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Not not too often, but you know, once in a while we we get, we
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get some, some. Recognition one day out of the
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year. I've never heard anybody sounds
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about right. That's the new podcast.
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It's about the plight of men and all of our struggles.
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See how long that means? Don't hold your breath.
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Where do you want to get started this week, Mr. Grant Angle?
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Well, I actually just came home from Seattle.
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Rain NIL, Portland Thorns, NIL at Lumen Field, the Cascadia
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Derby up here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
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Nice mix of some serious cloud cover and then the sun came out.
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Pretty gorgeous PNW day up here. The football pretty good, I
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think for a nil nil match. There was some pretty open play
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in the middle of the field. But, buddy, when you have no
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Sophia Smith, when you have no Olivia Moltrey and when you have
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no Sam Coffey on the Portland Thorns kind of getting the
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attack started from the defensive midfield, it was a
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struggle to score out. There just knocking it around
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and those nil Nils were they were definitely going around
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this weekend. So you guys weren't the only
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ones hit by that bug. What'd you see at the match?
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Oh, before we get to the match, CBS Sports, I think we've got to
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put a ticket into the old tech department because it was
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apparently no way to watch the 1st.
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The first half of this match. I went Paramount Plus, I went to
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CBS Sports app, opened up the old laptop.
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They even ran a graphic. So I think one of the women's
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golf tournaments ran a little long and they ran a graphic on
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the golf tournament, said if you want to watch Rain Thorns, head
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over to CBS Sports app or CBSSports.com.
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Did both those things, couldn't find the match.
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I would click on the match, the little match thumbnail and it
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would take me to said golf tournament.
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So no clue what happened in the first half.
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You're gonna have to fill me in. We'll start there.
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Suffice it to say, NWSL coverage still very much evolving, very
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much growing a lot, a lot of room for improvement there.
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We'll talk about that one later. OK, I, I heard like some
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grumblings in the press box a little bit, but obviously we're
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like sitting there watching the match.
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So and then the CCTV is on in the press box.
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I did think it was odd though that it was the CCTV feed in the
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press box. And then in the second-half I
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noticed it had the CBS logo on the top.
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So apparently they they switched over at that point.
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OK, good to know. Real bummer.
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Yeah, CBS, let's let's maybe get that figured out.
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Yeah, so, So catch us all up. Catch us all up on the first
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half. So yeah, I like I mentioned like
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in in the first half, especially in like the 1st 6 minutes, it
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was like pretty open, like up and down the field.
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There's some kind of chances. There was one point where
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Portland was on a counter and kind of as it was happening.
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And obviously, no disrespect to, I mean, Portland still had Jesse
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Fleming, Christine Sinclair out there, Janine Becky was out
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there. I thought she played pretty well
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today. But there was a couple of points
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where I was just like, glad Sophia Smith is not on that, on
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that breakaway. If I were a Seattle Rains
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supporter, obviously in the press box, it's nothing but a
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neutral journalist. But like you said, I mean,
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similar to the second-half, they're kind of just knocking
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the ball around up and down the field.
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There were a couple moments in the first half, though, that
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were a little scary for the rain where they had some pretty cheap
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giveaways in their attacking half.
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But again, with no Smith and no Moultrie out there, they kind of
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died on the vine a little bit. I will say though, credit to
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Seattle's defense. So they're they played a back
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four of Ryan Brown, Lou Barnes, Phoebe McLaren and Sophia
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Huerta. And I thought they all really
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handled themselves extremely well with the exception of a
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moment and every player's going to have this.
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But there was a moment in the first half where the ball is
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coming in to the box from Portland and Sophia Huerta just
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pretty much just like gets her left foot on it.
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I think it was her left foot and just kind of like leaves it
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thinking that Phoebe McLaren is going to have an an easy
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clearance or maybe Claudia Dickey is just going to come and
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just like gobble it up. It looked more like Puerto was
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leaving the ball to try to get an assist and she was basically
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leaving it for Isabella Diaquila for for Portland thorns.
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But then McLennan just like flew in there and basically was able
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to to clean up the mess. But it was almost a a real
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howler from Puerto, which you don't see very often from her,
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obviously. Yeah, actually Leanne Sanderson
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on the show last week was talking to us about the rain
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kind of giving away the ball far too cheaply.
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I think with was the the phrase that she used.
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Yeah, absolutely there. There was definitely more of
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that in the first half, but I should mention I did mention
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Claudia Dickey by name. So she's back, back from injury,
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playing in goal. More on her in a little bit.
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I thought Laura Harvey said some interesting things in the press
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conference. But also Quinn, the Canadian
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defensive midfield, their first match back since they injured
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their knee on April 27th over in North Carolina.
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Quinn played the first half, the entire first half, 45 minutes,
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came off at halftime. Looked good out there.
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I think a player like Quinn, when poise is a hallmark of your
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game, I kind of wonder this. I'm curious your thoughts on it.
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It would like poise and calmness is like the biggest part of your
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game. I wonder if it's almost a little
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easier to come back from a little bit of a layoff because
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you're it's not like you're going to totally lose.
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That, yeah, not going to be rattled.
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And I think there's kind of secondary effects to that, that
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kind of spread across the team, you know, So now the general
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level of tension, tamp down a couple notches and I think you
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could just get to the football at that point.
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Great to see them back on the pitch.
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Yeah, absolutely. So I ended up, uh, chatting with
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our pal Laura Harvey, future friend of the show, who I will,
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I'm just going to put it on wax now.
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I will eventually try to get on this program because I mean, if
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we're out here getting Leanne Sanderson and a CO2 Filey on the
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show, Cam Pope, Chris Sharples, I mean, we got some hitters
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coming on here. It's about time.
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I try to, I try to ask Laura Harvey to come on.
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Not to mention the Olympics coming up, buddy.
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Oh man, that's late. We're going to have some guests
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to preview the Olympics. We'll talk about that a little
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bit later as well. Apologies for the interjection.
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No, it's an important one. I appreciate that.
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Let's get back to you holding Laura's Laura Harvey's feet to
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the fire in in the way that only Grant.
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From the ICC can do, of course, um, real Woodward and Bernstein
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work I'm doing over here in terms of journalism.
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Around the 60th minute, some kind of switch was flipped where
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just fishlock just decided, oh, wait a minute.
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The middle of the defense is open for Portland and Jordan
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Heights was streaking up the middle and just Fishlock just
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started turning on the Patrick Mahomes laser beams and she's
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just firing shots over the top or pardon me, not shots, but
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just firing passes over the top, including with that one in the
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63rd minute that I thought item had a was going to have a look
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going in on goal with Yep, easy for me to say sitting up in the
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press box. I thought Haitama went down a
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little easy on the challenge. I thought maybe she was a little
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more looking for a foul than looking to like finish strong
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there. But that started to open up.
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And Seattle's attack looked pretty threatening throughout
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the majority of the second-half. But they just they just have
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these long stretches where they can't find the quality to either
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connect the LastPass or even wrangle the LastPass or get a
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good shot on goal. And that's what's been really
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the bugaboo for their offense this entire season.
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Yeah, I agree with that. Obviously he caught the
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second-half and it did look like Seattle was more likely to
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score. Yeah, I don't think the quality
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was there. I pulled some numbers that I
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thought were interesting. So obviously AFC and Utah were
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recording this Sunday night. They're about to kick off in
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about half an hour, so that could change things.
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But coming into this week, we had been averaging 19 plus goals
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per match week across the seven matches, two, almost three goals
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per match on average this week. The first six matches, just
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eight goals. I mentioned the Nil Nils kind of
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going around. I'm not sure really what to
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attribute that to. Maybe it's, I don't know, the
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weather a little bit. Maybe the season's starting to
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grind down a little bit. Maybe it's videotape analysis,
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catching up with some of these attacks where a lot of the
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discussion about this season has been about the newcomers to the
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league, not just new signings, but also rookies.
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Yeah, we could be at that point this season where, you know, the
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tape is out. We've seen Orlando kind of cool
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off Casey, who had been on an absolute tear, just a couple of
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goals from them. So not sure what to attribute it
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to, but I think the the defense is stepping up, yeah, kind of
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going around this weekend for sure.
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Yeah, that's a great point. You know, coming off an
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international break might be a little bit of of chemistry
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there. Probably all those factors that
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you mentioned. That's that's a really good
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point. And we get to the end of the
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match. I think in the last few minutes,
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Seattle had like two more pretty good opportunities, one
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especially golden opportunity where it deserves in a nice
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cross in the middle. It falls to the youngster,
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Adamus, but she gets her shot blocked and that was at like 90
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+ 5. As it's going in, I could hear
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people in the press box going that's going to be a goal.
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Like it looked nearly certain. Just couldn't punch it in at the
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end. So we get the draw, we go to the
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press conference, we talk to our pal Laura, and she pretty much
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says largely those same things. I mean, you know, just showing
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quality in the final third. And she said something to the
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effect of I thought defensively we were good.
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We were solid at times. And then she went on to say we
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need the quality in the final third to be as good as that
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defensive quality in these kinds of matches if we're going to if
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we're going to start winning, which I think, you know, it was
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a pretty salient point. The thing I wanted to throw to
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you is that we talked about Seattle's backup goalkeeper
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Laurel Ivory and how impressive she looked through some of those
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stretches, especially when she was getting some shots fired at
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her doing this rough stretch for the ring.
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When asked about Claudia Dickey coming back, Laura Harvey said
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she came for the cross as well. She talked about how she was
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aggressive and was able to to go get go out there and get the
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ball. But then she said it will be
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good for her and Laurel to compete again.
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That was just a little, just a little bug in there looking
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forward for the rest of the season.
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I think Dickey's a good keeper. I, I think Ivory showed a lot of
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things too. So I'm going to put that in my
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file of things to watch for. Interesting.
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I mean it's a couple of starter level keepers kind of good
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problem to have and I think it's not quite the same as a
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quarterback issue in the NFL where it's like where does
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locker rooms, you know, it's I think goalkeeper's kind of like
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a singular type position. What they do kind of
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reverberates out a little bit, but not not quite the same.
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We could just be in store for, you know, good old fashioned
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goalkeeper competition. I like it.
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I thought you were going to. I thought you were going to pull
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it out. What?
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I don't know, Dino, can you educate me and perhaps maybe
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some of our pals over Europe in the NFL, if you think you might
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have two quarterbacks, how many do you have?
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You don't have anybody. There we go.
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Love a good NFL cliche over here in the USA.
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But yeah, I think you're right. I think it's more of a good
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problem for Seattle. Yeah, I agree with that.
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Yeah, looking at like a team like a Chelsea or you got, you
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know, Musevich and Hannah Hampton and Katrin Berger for a
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minute and they they were doing OK.
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You know, I think they not, not, not a problem that they were
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that I think kept them up. OK.
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So that's something that we'll definitely keep an eye on.
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Last thing on this rain team, Leon Sanderson also touched on
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this last week as well. You just kind of feel like
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institutionally, infrastructure wise, this is a solid team with
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a solid DNA and persona and they're just dying for, you
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know, we'll get to Washington here in a second.
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And what Cory Bethune did and then the dying seconds of that
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one, they're just dying for one or two of those matches where
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they eke out a three points. That was just 5050 on the table,
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totally gettable. And it just seems like pretty
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consistently this rain side just kind of falls short of making
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some late magic. And, you know, we we see not
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just the great teams, we see good teams kind of pull out
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these types of these types of moments.
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Just doesn't seem to have happened for the Seattle side
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just yet. For sure, let me hit you with
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two lasts lasts because last lasts because you absolutely
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nailed it. I mean, I know for a fact,
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Speaking of Father's Day, you're hanging with the kiddo.
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So you I know you didn't watch Laura Harvey's press conference,
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but when you're talking about like that DNA Laura Harvey
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mentioned like some of those matches, like she talked about
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the the two goals in 90 seconds by Kansas City current.
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She said, and I quote about some of the players, quote, they
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could turn up and never want to to play soccer again after some
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of those mistakes because obviously Laura Harvey not
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pleased with some of the mental mistakes on those plays.
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But then she came back and said, but this squad doesn't lack
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character. And she talked about their
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togetherness and that that kind of resilience.
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But I also want to go one more layer into what she was talking
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about because she did the manager slash coach thing.
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She talked about quality. She talked about finishing in
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the final third and she dropped in a a little extra in there
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saying, you guys have heard me say it multiple times this year.
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And OK, totally editorial reporting without doing the
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reporting style. I'm sitting in the rooms,
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whatever. I'm watching all the games.
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Of course, that's what we do here.
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The transfer window is coming up in August 1st and I just think
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that when Laura Harvey keeps saying we're just missing that
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little bit of quality in the final third, could she possibly
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be saying we got to go out and buy buy it because I I don't
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have it on this roster consistently.
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I think that's on the money and, you know, at some point you
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still have to put forward some moves to kind of elevate the
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team. If you think about, you know,
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extra revenue from playoffs, I'm not sure all of the specifics
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around the revenue sharing and everything that's going on, but
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you have to imagine the gate revenue from playoffs.
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I mean, these things are all very, very important things.
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The rain's still kind of sniffing around that area.
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Going into this weekend, there was seven teams between 12 and
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17 points. So I think the back half of the
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playoff race, maybe the last two or three spots, I think are
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going to be pretty up for grabs. If there's one thing we like
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talking about here, it's the transaction season, baby.
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So I'm very interested in that August 1 window opening up.
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If I could hit you with the last and final thing on this.
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The press conference ends, Laura Harvey's walking out.
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One of the reporters, shout to them for doing this.
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Goes, who's winning the EUR? And Harvey almost stops in her
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track and goes, I didn't see the England score.
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What was the England score? Because obviously you know,
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England, Serbia was at noon I think out here and the rain
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match kicked off at one somebody told her one nil England over
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Serbia. Laura Harvey let's out a euro
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and then and then walks as she's walking out of the out of the
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press room goes it's coming home.
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So shout to Laura. That's great, I love that.
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What a G All right, well, maybe maybe next time you're you're in
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the building, take it easy on old Laura because she's
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obviously got some. I know I'm sure she's real
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oppressed about of my my hard hitting questions.
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Let's switch gears to the KC Current TB just mentioned they
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hosted Chicago Red Stars. KC goes down a goal and they
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come back, score 2 unanswered. Then they give up a late goal,
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21 Sam Staubb 90th minute. That one goes 22.
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Anything stick out with this one?
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I've got some stuff on KC but I I'm curious to see if anything
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from this match caught your attention.
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It's awesome that you score a lot.
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You got to stop conceding so much.
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I may be acting like an old man or a curmudgeon here.
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If you score two goals, that should be good enough to win.
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And if you are defending a corner kick at at the death of
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the match, then you want to be able to stop that.
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I mean a corner kick. You know, obviously there are
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teams that are good at that kind of thing.
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Sam stops an excellent player. It was a good finish, but, you
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know, finish the game, bro, is this is kind of like what you
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yell at your TV at that moment. So, you know, they've given up
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nineteen goals this season. It's the most of any team in the
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top five. And it's tied with,
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coincidentally, the Chicago Red Stars, who sit at 6th of the
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table in terms of 19 goals conceded.
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So you're good enough to win the league.
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You got to figure out a way to stop letting so many in though.
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I want to rewind on that point. I'm I'm glad you kind of phrased
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it that way because their nineteen goals allowed this
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season, good for roughly 9th or 10th in the league.
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Yeah. Now I went back a couple seasons
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here. Last season, the Wave who won
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the Shield were second best in league with regard to goals
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allowed. Gotham wins the cup.
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They were tied for fourth fewest.
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So now you've got KC 9th, 10th. Not not good.
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Rewind one more season, 2022. Your Reign won the Shield with
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the fewest goals allowed, number one with a bullet.
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And then the Thorns win the Cup with the third fewest allowed.
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So this tells me that this Kansas City current team
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defensively does not have the profile of a team that can win
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the title in either title. Now you look a little closer. 19
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real goals allowed. XG wise they're at 12.1.
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A massive difference. Interesting. 12.1 is good for
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best in the league with regard to XG allowed.
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So a massive golf there, better than Gotham, better than
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Orlando. That tells me that this Casey's
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high to your point. But the Sam's top header, you
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know, no shaded at Sam's stop, they're getting beat by pretty
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low probability stuff. Yeah.
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Now, is that fixable? Is that something that's trend?
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Is that something that, you know, might continue?
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Is it strategic? Is it tactical?
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I'm not sure that we know. But what we do know is they're
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letting a lot of goals in and that, XG aside, does not fit the
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profile of a Championship team. Do you mean to tell me that
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defence wins championships? Did you just make that up?
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Just came to me man. It's a fucking G stroke of
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genius. That's really good.
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No, that's I mean, those numbers are, are rad, dude.
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I, you know, obviously the rain has defense in their DNA pretty
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much through the history of the program.
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So I was aware when they won the shield, they had a great
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defense. I was not that aware even
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thinking about like Girma and Caitlin Sheridan for for the
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wave. Those are great numbers, man.
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I mean, it is a silly cliche. If you don't let the other team
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score, it's hard for them to beat you.
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A. 100% it's near it's near impossible.
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Do you think? Well, I mean, you've seen this
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Casey current side, I think worth 13 ish games and still
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undefeated. So they're they're sitting on
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eight wins, 5 draws. But there is just some, you
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know, like it. It happens quite often
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offensively when you're too reliant on offense.
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There's going to be one day, one off day, right?
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And you might have a be off day, you might have a Temo Chuwinga
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off day, you might have a debinoff day.
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Or Di Bernardo. Obviously she gets subbed off
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with a pretty nasty knock in this one, but it does happen,
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especially in knockout football. You know, two of your big three,
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two of your big 4/3 of your BIG4 sometimes have an off day and
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that's enough to just end the whole thing.
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On one hand, offensively they're explosive, super potent.
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But I just have seen it too many times.
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Live by the O kind of die by the O kind of thing where you just
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know that it's coming. Probabilistically,
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statistically, there's going to be a game where two of your big
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guns just it's not their day. Yeah, great point.
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And then, you know, I I really like Adriana French.
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She had a good run where she was the 2nd keeper behind there for
20:34
the US Women's national team. So she's 10th in the league in
20:37
clean sheet percentage. Obviously in a fourteen team
20:40
league, kind of OK. Now she's second in the league
20:44
though, tied with Kaitlin Sheridan.
20:46
They each have 36 saves this season, but now we look at save
20:49
percentage. Kaitlin Sheridan sitting at
20:52
third in the league with an 80% save percentage and looking at
20:56
this top 1080 French not listed. So I think you know what you're
21:02
talking about. Some of these low percentage
21:04
opportunities that are squeaking by are that man that happens at
21:07
the wrong time and now you fall four points behind in the table
21:13
or you just get knocked out of a cup match.
21:15
Absolutely. I want to shift gears to Orlando
21:17
here. Sure, Orlando.
21:19
They obviously draw at North Carolina.
21:22
We actually previewed this one, you know, hanging out with our
21:25
guy John at the Loud and Proud podcast.
21:27
Oh yeah. When asked about my prediction,
21:30
I think my logic was if we score two, we win.
21:33
If we score one, we probably win.
21:35
And lo and behold, we scored. We scored nil.
21:38
They also scored nil. Everybody goes home.
21:40
We found the draw. I snuck that in for you by that
21:43
by the way, I'm. Sure.
21:43
Thank you. But Orlando, they do profile as
21:47
a team that defensively can lock down.
21:50
Now my question around the Pride.
21:53
Obviously Emily Sam's, she's playing at an all league type
21:55
level. Shout out to ESP NS Jeff Kassoff
21:58
who had Sam's 11th, his MVP tracker.
22:00
So a little shine Emily's way. We appreciate that.
22:04
But I found myself wondering, does this Orlando team need a
22:08
second elite offensive attacker? You look at KC, you got BN
22:13
Chiwinga, you look at Washington, they've got Rodman,
22:16
SAR, Bethune, they've got 3 elite attackers.
22:19
Sophia Smith is so elite. Her playmaking is at a level
22:22
where if you're just running next to her, you all sort of
22:26
kind of become an elite, elite attacker, pretty.
22:28
Much. And obviously they they do have
22:29
skilled players up front as well in Portland.
22:31
But I was kind of finding myself wondering after watching this
22:36
one. You know, Banda, she's obviously
22:38
amazing. Marta got some chances.
22:40
I don't know if Marta's like that full time solution there.
22:43
She started this one up top with Banda.
22:45
Yeah, she had some looks. She got really close.
22:48
Had we gotten the goal, I think we walk away with three points,
22:51
obviously. Oh yeah.
22:52
It was the exact type of match that I expected.
22:53
Courage kind of wanted to drag it into the mud.
22:55
Nil. Nil is exactly what we got.
22:57
But do you think there's something to Orlando needing a
23:00
second attacker That kind of has ascended to all league, you
23:05
know, type conversation? You know, these are like these
23:07
are sort of like upper upper echelon.
23:09
I think I know Orlando has a lot of really good offensive
23:12
attacking players and it's sort of second banana by committee
23:16
essentially like, right, it's Julie Doyle or it's Ali Watt or
23:19
it's Summer Yates. There's a lot of, you know, you
23:21
know, sort of passing the rock, which is great.
23:24
But you know, offensively you just kind of wish that there was
23:27
somebody that could reach somewhat the level of dynamism
23:30
of a Barba Banda. I think this is this is the
23:33
classic team sports question. I think you're right on it.
23:37
And it's, it's funny because as you're asking me the question
23:40
before you even got to those names, I was trying to go
23:43
through the Rolodex. I was like, well, you got Ali
23:44
Watt, he got Julie Doyle. Obviously you have Marta, you
23:48
have Summer Yates, Adriana can score for you if needed.
23:52
But yeah, do you need that second player to just be a
23:56
little better than that other list of players?
23:59
Maybe. But at the same time, if you
24:03
have the outright flatly best player in the league, then I
24:08
think in a cup, in a cup match, you know, in an elimination
24:12
match, you got to like your chances with with Banda out
24:15
there. So there's absolutely something
24:18
to what you're saying. And I don't think they'll be shy
24:21
looking in the transfer window. I mean, they have Grace Chanda
24:24
coming, you know. Bondas, Zambian national team
24:27
teammate, I don't think they're going to be shy.
24:29
And when you name those other players like you named BIA and
24:32
Chiwenga, they still have Di Bernardo on Kansas City as well.
24:35
And then you mentioned the trio of Rodman, Sarah Bethune.
24:38
I think Orlando has to realize they're in an arms race.
24:41
I think they do exactly what you're suggesting and probably
24:43
go look for that player. Yeah, absolutely.
24:45
Yeah, Debina as well and KC, you forget how really, really good
24:48
she is. Awesome.
24:49
She definitely showed it this past weekend.
24:51
A couple of their quick stats in Orlando, they're shot on target
24:54
percentage this year, 36% their last three matches though, 2266
24:59
and 26, which means their ability to put it on frame kind
25:03
of trending down a little bit. I'm not sure if that's, again,
25:05
like we mentioned, defense is potentially catching up.
25:08
The one saving grace though, defensively, 11 goals allowed
25:11
now in 13 matches, that's secondly to Gotham and that's
25:15
with Rafaela missing six matches.
25:18
You expect to get her back and then maybe this defense gets
25:21
even stronger from there. So it could be for a team like
25:24
this to kind of go deep, deep potentially all the way.
25:28
It's probably Banda, a full season of her just bossing the
25:32
defense, just doing what that defense has done all season.
25:36
And then essentially maybe a rotation of one of those
25:38
secondary players, maybe a Chanda coming in, maybe somebody
25:41
that they haven't signed yet coming on and kind of like
25:44
playing that that 1B role to Fonda elevating Orlando just to
25:48
the very top of the league. We'll see.
25:50
And if you're Orlando, we'll talk about them soon.
25:52
But if you're Orlando, you have to be looking at Washington
25:54
Spirit also and go, Oh yeah, Lacey Santos is coming over to
25:58
that squad, too. And a coach, I think that's done
26:02
a thing or two. He's been all right.
26:04
Let's talk about Washington. A little bit of drama in that
26:07
one. Where?
26:08
Where should we get started? So this one, I thought it felt a
26:11
little bit like a tale of two halves.
26:13
You know, I love describing a football match like that.
26:16
In the first half, San Diego Wave had nearly 60% of the ball.
26:21
In the second-half, Spirit had 54% of the ball and they outshot
26:25
San Diego 11 to four. They had five shots on target to
26:29
San Diego's one, including a big one.
26:31
They had two big chances. San Diego had zero.
26:34
You know, they had more accurate passes and they had they were
26:37
even on corners. I just felt like the Spirit.
26:40
They just have so many good, smart players who are dedicated
26:45
to playing on both ends of the field that there is an element
26:49
of them just wearing you down throughout a match too.
26:52
It is not surprising that the GOAT Leanne Sanderson, who
26:56
graced us with their presence on this pod, pick them to possibly
27:00
win the whole league. I mean, we we talked those 3
27:03
fours that they have or those three kind of attacking players,
27:05
Bethune Rodman and SAR, Casey Krueger, we'll get to her a
27:09
little bit later in some more detail, but she was great.
27:12
And it's almost like she knows what she's got up the field.
27:17
So she wants to, in a very responsible way, win back the
27:21
ball, get the ball up field because that is the formula.
27:25
There's something also to the three different profiles for
27:29
their three main attackers, Bethune, Rodman and SAR.
27:32
SAR is obviously clinical finisher, very dangerous, very
27:36
slippery. Rodman is just go, go, go.
27:39
She's just going to wear you, wear you down is the perfect
27:42
phrasing for what she's going to do to a defense.
27:45
And athletically, she's just phenomenal.
27:48
She's just off the charts. I mean, I think she can run with
27:50
anybody. She's she's powerful.
27:52
She's got a nasty streak, which you love.
27:54
And then you've got Cory Bethune.
27:56
I don't know, a little bit of like a little bit of like Nile
27:58
Crocodile vibes where she's just lurking, like she's just waiting
28:02
for a ball to spill into the wrong place.
28:04
And you just see her accelerate in a way where it's just like,
28:08
oh, she's she's hungry right now.
28:10
Like she sees something, she's going for something.
28:12
And then it feels like most of the rest of the match, she's
28:14
just kind of coolly gliding, you know, into where she's supposed
28:17
to be until, until door just slightly, slightly creaks open.
28:22
So I just love the balance of the different types of attacking
28:26
players at Washington's got. Trillion percent cosign on
28:30
Rodman. I mean, she's absolutely one of
28:32
my favorite players in women's football.
28:33
I just, I love that you have a player like you're talking
28:37
about. She draws fouls when she decides
28:40
that she's getting to her spot. She just gets to her spot like
28:44
you. Nobody is keeping up with her
28:45
when she wants to get the ball right on the end line and
28:47
serving across. That's what she'll do if she
28:49
wants to cut it inside. You're so terrified that she's
28:52
going to get to the end line to serve in a dangerous cross that
28:55
she's like, oh, sorry, this time I'm cutting inside and now I'm
28:57
going to have a go myself or try to play in another path.
29:00
She's just a devastating attacking player who still will
29:04
run back and get blocks and interceptions and deflections
29:08
and just, she's just a got to be a nightmare to play against and
29:11
and just a probably a joy to play with because here you have
29:14
this superlative athlete who is a superstar and still has the
29:19
guts and the responsibility to go back and get back on defense.
29:24
Love her game. And I think that that spirit
29:27
team kind of feels like they've got everything, you know, like
29:31
it's going to be a long season, a lot more football to play.
29:33
But the more I look at it, you know, for power ranking, very
29:37
American style. Power Ranking.
29:38
Power Ranking. I think it'd be tough not to put
29:42
the spirit up in that number one spot.
29:44
They've got a couple different. I mean, we're going to talk
29:47
about MVP candidates a little bit later this week.
29:50
They've got a couple different MVP candidates just simmering,
29:54
you know, on that squad, and I think they're going to be
29:56
really, really tough. They're going to be a tough out
29:58
this season. Absolutely.
30:01
Can we talk more about Croy Bethune?
30:02
I'm ready. Let's go, OK?
30:04
I'm always ready. So we know what happened at the
30:06
end of the match. Anybody who's watching this is
30:08
aware of what happened at the end of the match.
30:09
I want to talk about what happened in the ninth minute
30:11
when Gaby Karl takes the ball off of Lundquist and then plays
30:16
the ball into the box. Bethune is obviously a rookie
30:20
drafted #3 this year. And when the ball is coming in,
30:24
Abby Doll Camper, a player who has several US Women's National
30:28
Team caps is has been an excellent defender for quite a
30:32
while. Doll Camper knows I have to get
30:35
here for the block because Bethune has the skill to one
30:38
time this into the corner of the net and even Sheridan won't have
30:42
a chance to stop it. But Bethune knows that.
30:45
Doll Camper knows that. So Doll Camper runs in and plays
30:49
for the block and the angle and Bethune sells it so brilliantly.
30:54
She runs in and looks like she's going to try to one time shot.
30:57
But then all she's doing is planning her foot and then
31:00
turning to her left and following the ball to then give
31:03
herself a left footed strike, which she murders and it
31:07
unfortunately hits off the post. And I can tell you as a guy who
31:11
spent a fair amount of time playing defensive midfielder and
31:14
stopper right back, all those kind of defensive positions, the
31:17
feeling when you are running, you are going One Direction and
31:21
then the attacking player has dipped you and it's going the
31:24
other direction of the ball. And you're like, Oh no, like
31:26
that is that is a a bad feeling. And when it's Kroy Bethune, I
31:31
thought for sure she was going to score it.
31:33
That's what I love about sports right there, that chess game and
31:36
then being able to execute it in like a second and a half.
31:40
Such a great move. Shades of what she did right at
31:45
the death as well with that brilliant touch.
31:49
Moment of majesty to kind of like clawed out point here at
31:53
home. I think they mentioned on the
31:54
broadcast San Diego was looking for their first Rd. win.
31:57
They were just about there. I love checking the time here.
32:01
There were 39 seconds left in added time, 6 plus on the clock.
32:06
They're at 9521 when the ball hits the back of the net.
32:09
I thought this was a riveting match up, trying to watch Girma
32:13
and Sheridan just not know where things are coming from all the
32:17
time against Washington. And you know, Girma, I think she
32:21
put that ball ahead to Lundquist in the ninth minute that you
32:25
were talking about. And then also kind of really
32:27
involved in that final play where, you know, great players.
32:31
What can you say? Greg Bethune is a great player.
32:34
The ball in the highest leverage moments, I don't know how it
32:37
happens. Just seems to find these great
32:39
players. You know, the touch that she put
32:42
on that last ball does the same thing that you're mentioning.
32:47
You know, she knocks it away from all Gurman could do is just
32:50
full stretch slide, nowhere near it.
32:52
I mean, it, it's a touch to kind of like she just knows the
32:55
ball's in there. She just knows, all right, if I
32:56
could move the ball into this space on the field, there's no
32:59
defending what's going to happen.
33:01
She does exactly that on a ball just redirected by Doll Camper
33:05
as well. Kruger's ball off of Doll
33:07
Camper's head and Bethune is just able to corral it in mid
33:11
air, put it exactly where she wants it.
33:13
And then the finish. You know, I, I mean, like I I'm
33:15
kind of having trouble remembering the finish exactly
33:18
because the touch prior was just absolutely all like all my brain
33:22
keeps for playing is the first touch, not like the actual goal.
33:25
But I do know that she just smoked it into the net.
33:28
And again, just a such a flair for the dramatic. 100% and I got
33:32
you covered here, buddy. So because you're you're spot on
33:35
about the first touch. The first touch is absolutely
33:37
majestic. So which the way she chests it
33:38
down and you're right, Germa has no chance to get to it.
33:42
So she's she's moving to her left and she kind of has the
33:46
same thing where Sheridan, because Sheridan is such a great
33:49
goalkeeper. She knows.
33:50
Oh, crap. I have the entire left side of
33:54
me is the face of the goal. And I know Bethune can score on
33:58
that, so I have to protect that. And in that split second where
34:01
she stops and you see Bethune, she has the ball under complete
34:04
control on the ground. She turns.
34:07
You could tell she recognizes like, oh, yeah, Sheridan.
34:10
No, she has to protect the broad face of the goal.
34:12
And then she just drills it past her near post and frozen
34:17
goalkeeper situation on the on the best goalkeeper in the
34:20
league. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna do more
34:23
of this because I know it a few a few episodes ago when we
34:26
talked about this, I compared Kroy Bethune's style of play to
34:29
Lionel Messi, because that's just who I am as a person.
34:33
It is a character flaw. I know I go way over the top
34:37
because I love this stuff and I get excited about things.
34:40
So sue me. But let me ask you, let me, let
34:43
me ask you some other questions here.
34:45
Croy Bethune is 5 foot two, a bit of an undersized #10 and I'm
34:50
not, I'm not going to try not to make this all about height.
34:53
Daniela van der Donk is 5 foot three.
34:55
And she's a genius passer and she's tough and she plays big in
34:59
big moments. Let's switch over to the men's
35:01
game. What about Phil Foden, who's
35:03
like 5 foot seven? What about Luka Modrich, who's
35:06
like 5 foot eight? And for my money, one of the
35:08
best number 10s over the last 20 years without an argument.
35:11
I think, you know, in my mind, I think a lot of people will be
35:14
like, yeah, duh, Modrich. What about Rose Lavelle, who's 5
35:17
foot four and is an engine who can pass and shoot?
35:21
Or what about Aitana Bone Mati, who's 5 foot three just like
35:25
Bethune and is a genius passer and can rip shots at 1,000,000
35:29
miles an hour? I'm not saying that Bethune is
35:32
going to be Bone Mati. I'm saying I think she could
35:35
absolutely be Vanderdunk. I'm saying she could absolutely
35:38
be an equivalent to like a Phil Foden type player in the women's
35:43
game. And if that's the case, as you
35:46
nailed it weeks ago, if she ends up being better than Rodman,
35:50
which I think is very live and we've already talked about how
35:53
much we love Rodman, we're we're looking at a super team.
35:57
I agree with that. I try not to put takes forward
36:01
that I don't fully believe in, but as I'm sort of as these
36:05
these ideas are formulating in my head, I understand that
36:08
there's a there's some probability that I could be just
36:11
way, way off, which you know, happens quite often.
36:14
But with that one, Bethune is like exceeded.
36:17
You know what we're talking about.
36:18
We started the season talking about, OK, Rookie of the year.
36:22
There's Ali Sentinor, there's Cory Bethune, a couple other
36:25
players, a couple of second round picks actually too that
36:28
we're sort of sort of in the in the neighbourhood.
36:30
That's over now. Cory Bethune firmly in the MVP
36:34
discussion. Let's go.
36:36
You know, you know, like in Washington in full, full
36:39
contention, She's so creative. Her IQ is, I don't know, 99 if
36:44
we're talking FIFA ratings, it'd be like she's just is playing a
36:47
different game out there and you kind of recontextualize that
36:52
whole offense, yes, because like she's not just a part of it.
36:55
Now to your point, your Mojrich point, your Beaumont T point, I
37:00
think like now if she's the focal point and now you're
37:03
giving her the ball and asking her to say, hey, utilize these
37:08
weapons, you know, like maximize these weapons.
37:10
That's very dangerous. 100%, man.
37:14
And I just, I don't want to get too lost in the sauce here, but
37:18
Rose Lavelle was a world beater in the 2019 World Cup who played
37:24
next to her in those midfields. It was 5 foot 10 strong.
37:29
Sam Muis. It was.
37:31
I might have Muis's height wrong.
37:33
Apologies if I if I got that wrong.
37:34
I think she's in that neighborhood.
37:36
It's a player with good size like Lindsay Iran.
37:39
What if you had a couple of young midfielders for the US
37:42
women's national team, like, I don't know, Lily Ohanis and Kroy
37:45
Bethune in your midfield? Now we're now you're lining up
37:50
Smith, Rodman, Shaw off the bench, maybe Macario, Mal
37:55
Swanson, Kroy Bethune, Lily Ohanis.
37:58
You look at Spain and you say line them up, let's play.
38:00
Absolutely we're. Talking.
38:02
We're talking real deal, European passing, real, real
38:06
football hours, real hoopers. No.
38:09
Well, what would what would Spain do collectively?
38:12
What would happen to the Spain psyche if Cory Bethune scores
38:16
and breaks out that dice roll Sally?
38:19
Is it just over? Like do they just put their just
38:22
as if their shit back ever? Like thanks y'all, let's take
38:25
that silver and get out of here. You know, if, if the match were
38:29
happening in Austin, TX, I think Spain would have a hard time
38:33
coming back from that. I think on an international
38:36
stage, I'm done. I I'm you, you were spot on.
38:41
You picked Barcelona to win the Champions League.
38:42
I'm done betting against Spain and Barcelona and all that.
38:46
But you raise you raise a valid point.
38:49
I think Spain would have to look across the field and be like,
38:52
OK, it's going to take a lot and A and them saying it's going to
38:55
take a lot from them is a lot, a lot. 100% I do.
39:01
I do want to quickly reiterate full cosign on your point.
39:05
All of a sudden, if you have Lily, Johannes, Cory Bethune in
39:08
the middle of the field distributing, come on now, all
39:12
of those weapons become maximum live.
39:14
Now, there's going to be different types of matches come
39:16
Olympics time. We'll see, you know, but having
39:18
those two options, that's a nightmare to defend because
39:21
either of those players can put the ball wherever they want.
39:23
Exactly. I do want to hit one more match
39:26
from this weekend before we get out of here.
39:28
Shout out to ESPN. Back in the mix, back in the
39:30
fold, Big surprise. Leanne Anderson on the call.
39:34
Gotham. I want to rewind back to our,
39:38
you know, sort of like BIG4 discussion.
39:40
I think it's kind of roughly time to say Gotham probably in
39:44
that mix, probably in that big 5 fold big time win at Louisville.
39:49
They were suffocated, sort of outclassed in this one.
39:53
And then Gotham gets the big two.
39:55
No win here. Gotham walks into Louisville and
39:58
gets A2 nil victory. I think you're right.
40:00
They they suffocated them. They had more than 60% of the
40:04
ball throughout the match. They had more shots, more shots
40:06
on target, several more big chances.
40:09
Ellis Stevens is having herself a nice little run.
40:13
It looked like Stevens could have had two goals and an assist
40:15
in the 1st 20 minutes of this one.
40:17
One goal she had was waved off for offside.
40:20
She had one shot saved. She had a really clever back
40:23
hill to the aforementioned Rose Lavelle, who drilled a shot that
40:28
I think rocketed off the post. This lineup had Ella Stevens,
40:31
Crystal Dunn, Rose Lavelle, Yasmine Ryan, Jenna Neiswonger,
40:34
Tierna Davidson, Emily Sonnett and Ann Ketrin Berger in goals,
40:39
and then Mandy Freeman had a great game at right back.
40:42
I didn't mention Esther Gonzalez and Lynn Williams, who did not
40:45
appear. They're still on the roster,
40:47
lurking somewhere. Wow, this team's absolutely
40:51
going to be dangerous. And you know, we talked about it
40:54
when we talked Casey Curran in Orlando.
40:57
You know, defense does win championships.
40:59
To quote the great grand angle just off the off the Dome gave
41:03
you threw that one out there on Katchenberger.
41:06
How about half a goal per 90 for her?
41:10
Four clean sheets and eight matches played.
41:12
And in the four matches where Gotham conceded, they gave up.
41:16
Let me check my notes here. One goal, one goal, one goal,
41:20
one goal. You are not.
41:24
You're not outscoring this team. That back four that you
41:27
mentioned, Emily Sonnett, Tuna Davidson, Jenna Neiswanger and
41:31
the aforementioned Mandy Freeman, who notches the assist
41:34
on that Stevens goal. They just win all their duels
41:38
and they're really tough, really tenacious, really smart, and
41:41
they're all really great on the ball.
41:43
Yes, balls at their feet. It's a wrap.
41:46
Just jog back on defense, get reset up because they're not
41:49
going to give it away. And I think that really, really
41:52
frustrated this Louisville side. 100% I mean, I'm huge Emily
41:56
Sonnet fan. Obviously we're familiar with
41:58
her work from the national team. She played for the Seattle Rain
42:00
last season. She is just that kind of player
42:04
who if things start getting a little hectic, I like that, you
42:09
know, Sonnet has that dog in her.
42:10
Like she will foul the hell out of you it when it comes to it.
42:13
But she also is so good at having the presence of mind of
42:18
I'm getting the ball and I'm settling this.
42:20
Everybody calm down. And then people are like, OK,
42:22
Emily telling us to calm down. Let's go, let's go ahead and,
42:25
and do that. I, I hearkened back to when she
42:27
transferred or when she signed with Gotham.
42:30
Bethany Balser from the Rain commented on her Instagram post
42:34
and said to Emily Sonic quote. Do you remember that time you
42:38
called me stupid on the field and then followed up?
42:42
I'll still miss you though, because that's the kind of
42:44
player heavily thought it is. She would she might call you
42:46
stupid on the field because she is so such a talented player.
42:50
She recognizes when you did something stupid and she's such
42:53
a leader. She can tell you, but you know
42:55
it's coming from a place of OK, Sonnet knows what what happened
42:58
there. I'll do better next time.
43:00
But you know, she's she seems like a genuinely super cool
43:03
person too. You see her joking around with
43:05
her teammates. Every teammate seems to love
43:06
Sonnet. So her combined with Davidson
43:09
and obviously we'll talk about Jenna face longer, but Mandy
43:11
Freeman played her ass off in this one too.
43:13
So that back four plus plus burger they're they're cooking.
43:17
They're just loaded. They're so loaded.
43:20
Again, you know, I'm, I'm kind of fixated on the defense this
43:23
week. Obviously only just eight goals
43:24
this weekend heading into this Bay FC Utah match.
43:28
You really see what kind of difference that makes when teams
43:32
got a ball in a dangerous area And, and I kind of mention it,
43:34
if you could shut down a chance within two touches, which this
43:39
Gotham team just does consistently, it's like, oh,
43:42
here come here, here comes some, you know, Demelo's in a spot,
43:44
one touch, two touches, it's over.
43:46
Like the chances just completely dissipated.
43:49
It's just such a superpower. You you given up four goals in
43:53
the last eight matches with Burger back there.
43:56
It's going to be really, really tough to contend with that.
44:00
And then just looking at the table, they've already surpassed
44:03
Portland. You know, they're two points
44:04
ahead in that fourth spot, four or five points roughly behind
44:08
the Spirit and the Pride with a lot of football left to be
44:13
played. Not an insurmountable lead by
44:15
any stretch. So I think this team is going to
44:18
be right up in that mix. They've got to feel great about
44:20
where they're at and if they can continue to defend like this and
44:24
work those offensive players back, I mean, they've got
44:27
they've got just as good a shot as anybody.
44:28
A. 100% I mean, think about this.
44:31
Kansas City, Current, Orlando Pride, Washington Spirit, Gotham
44:34
FC, Portland Thorns. One of those teams is not going
44:39
to host a playoff match, at least in the first round.
44:43
How about the 4-5 spot? The Gotham Thorns first round?
44:46
I mean stuff. So that's going to be, you know,
44:49
big onus on these teams to try to finish near the top as much
44:53
as they can. You finish in that second spot,
44:55
now you're looking at two potential home games.
44:58
It's going to get real hectic at the top and I, I think I realize
45:01
they're six points back. Well, the Chicago Red Stars, but
45:05
I think with Mel Swanson, Sam Stubb, they're probably looking
45:08
around saying don't count us out just yet.
45:11
I'm not counting them out out of that top four race.
45:14
I think it's going to be a steep hill to climb with those five in
45:17
front of them though. Absolutely.
45:19
They might be another team I'm looking at in this upcoming
45:22
window because you mentioned those two, Sam Staub, Manley
45:25
Swanson, I think Alyssa there is is right there as well as with
45:28
regard to like these are foundational pieces that if you
45:32
could just elevate, you know, the other 7-8 spots on the field
45:35
just kind of here and there to open things up, I think it could
45:38
make a huge difference. But you can kind of see the
45:40
bones of a really good team in Chicago, but maybe just not, you
45:45
know, the top end talent all the way through, went through 11 or
45:47
went through 15 or 16. But we'll definitely keep an eye
45:50
on them. They're going to be a tough out
45:51
as well. You know, you get a Swanson game
45:54
and they could beat any team in the mix on any given day.
45:58
Anything else you want to hit on this Gotham FC combo?
46:02
I think that's it, man. I think they're dangerous.
46:04
I went back and listened to the preview.
46:06
We both picked them to win the Shield, but did not pick them to
46:10
win the Cup. I know I had my doubts.
46:12
Personally, I'm after kind of the tough start and being like,
46:15
Oh yeah, I guess after every international break, they're
46:17
going to have to rest a lot of players and how's that going to
46:19
look and and this and that. But I'm glad I didn't sway too
46:23
wildly to the to the other side. I don't think either of us did.
46:26
They're they're firmly in the mix.
46:28
They could win the Shield. No, no doubt.
46:30
I agree with that game in hand. Oh yeah, they.
46:33
Win that one just couple couple points behind those couple big
46:36
dogs up top. Quick shout out to Ella Stevens.
46:39
You mentioned her another absolute ice cold goal Sally
46:42
from her after her absolute banger.
46:45
All right, man match week 13. We've got some football being
46:48
played right here as we speak, but I think we did it.
46:51
We'll come back maybe on Twitter or later in the week to talk
46:54
about what we saw. I don't know if anything crazy
46:56
happened Utah AFC, but for all intents and purposes, match Week
47:00
13 for your boys pretty much in the books.
47:03
Anything else you wanna hit before we get out of here?
47:04
I think we did it, man. I think that was comprehensive
47:07
coverage of the best five teams in the league.
47:11
And then we talked about Seattle rain also.
47:15
Fair enough. There's been another episode
47:17
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