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🇪🇸 Aitana Bonmatí Ends Germany, Sends Spain to Final | WOMEN'S EURO 2025 SEMI-FINAL RECAP | EP 155 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast primarily about WINS
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  football. I'm your host Dino de Suspetus
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  and as always I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Engel.
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  What is up man? I'm feeling pretty good, buddy.
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  I thought that was another two hours of pretty entertaining
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  football. We watched today and what do you
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  know, we have ourselves a final. Have ourselves a final.
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  I got close to nailing my finals prediction.
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  I was excited about that. But I'm kind of glad that
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  neither of us nailed the finals exactly, even though these were
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  team number one and team #2 in terms of FIFA ranking, betting
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  odds, however you want to think about that.
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  Spain, England, we've got ourselves a final and I like
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  that neither of us predicted the final because now we can go into
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  tomorrow's final preview, You know, with a little bit of a
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  clean slate, we can kind of approach it.
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  We know we're not, we're not totally, you know, beholden to
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  our take integrity. So we can, you know, think
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  outside the box and approach it with, you know, some with some
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  clean takes. So I'm excited about that.
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  OK, are we reaching an agreement there because I mean, you know,
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  with no spoilers, I guess. But I did pick Spain to win this
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  thing and they're in the final. I picked Spain to win the
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  tournament before. So I don't know what TuneIn
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  tomorrow to see if you know, the take integrity holds.
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  What a what a radio tease that is.
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  You did have Spain beating Sweden.
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  That's not the final that we got.
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  And I had, you know, Germany beating England, not the final
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  that we got, you know, that Germany would, would squeak by.
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  And I got, I got, I got close. I think it was probably 12 or 13
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  minutes in when, when I, when I was like, I could be I, I might
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  have to, we might be enrolled the tape territory.
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  I might have to, you know, go back and find that old episode
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  and, you know, clip out that little preview and get it ready
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  for, for tonight's little show. But, you know, wasn't the case.
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  But let's get to it, man. Where?
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  Where do you want to get started?
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  Spain won Germany nil after added extra time.
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  I mean, Germany, man, you know, red cards, injuries, adversity,
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  difficult times, you know, scoring at that points some
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  other times where there are moments of brilliance where they
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  can score questions about the defense.
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  They just powered through, man. They just trucked along
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  throughout this tournament with some some brave, bold defending
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  at times. And they made a match out of
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  this one. And it was, you know, we said
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  like, you couldn't count them out after the way they played
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  against France. And they still somehow, in my
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  mind, delivered pretty nicely even in this loss.
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  Yeah, I would say so. I mean, and it really does speak
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  to their tournament experience. You know, we're talking about
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  pre show a little bit like the notion of like beating the
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  Champions. Like, yeah, Germany's not the
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  defending champ, but they are one of the Ogs, maybe the OG of
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  this European Championship. And it's kind of like, you know,
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  it's like one of the, you know, the one of the big evil bosses
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  you have to get past, you know, if you're Spain.
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  And I think they were saying on the telecast that Spain had
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  never beaten Germany in a big competition, I guess which?
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  I believe yes. Always surprised to hear that.
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  But yeah, Germany was tough and it felt like they got better.
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  To your point, like despite the injuries, despite the
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  suspensions, the red cars, the, you know, the like they're
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  missing 3 starters, 3 key starters, lender, Julia Gavin
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  and Henrich. Like so it's like that's not
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  easy enough. They're all along the back line.
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  And now you're facing Spain, you know, so all of that adversity
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  and this team got better. You know, this was, I don't
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  know, maybe their best performance of the tournament.
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  I mean, I was very impressed by what they were going to put
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  together today. Well, yeah, when you consider
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  the competition, I think it's absolutely in the argument for
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  their best performance. And they're without shook a new
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  skin too, which I think when you kind of look back on how this
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  match, you know, how the pace of this match played out and how
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  heavy legs start to play a factor as you know, one team
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  dominates the ball. You you feel terrible for
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  Shokanuskin because she has to kind of be sitting there
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  wondering like, if I was on the field, do I make a difference?
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  And you know, for a world class athlete like her, I'm I'm sure
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  she believes that she would have made a difference.
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  So it's a it's a rough spot. But when you play Spain and they
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  are pressing, pressing you into oblivion and it's hard to get
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  the ball out of your defensive half.
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  You have to play incredibly tough defensive football and
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  Spain forced him into that. But it's it felt like Germany
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  was ready for that and and we're ready to be ready to be as tough
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  as possible. Yeah, no doubt.
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  What do you think of the? Well, actually, let's let's.
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  Yeah, it's been I, I can't believe it.
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  As I was talking, I was like, what am I waiting for here?
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  Dying of thirst. Cheers to you.
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  Cheers to football, of course. Salud, some might say.
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  Yep, salute just a la Roja making the final.
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  We're here. We did it.
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  That's right, we got there. The Sleepy Boys podcast, getting
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  across the fit. Whoa.
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  Right in front of the finish line.
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  Yeah, we're almost there. We're we're we're snoozing our
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  way to the news line first half a lot, you know, shades of
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  England, Italy. I thought it was played a little
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  bit on on Germany's terms, mostly because, you know, the
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  late Alexandri absence very apparent.
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  You know, I think Spain's attack starting via that central
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  channel, that just kind of was not really a thing today.
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  A lot of it was like up the outside.
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  It was Bhatti on one side, Carmona on the other.
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  Yeah, I think that's kind of how they were getting going.
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  Or if it started from deep, it was Bhatti like getting getting
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  started. And she was great today. 142
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  touches. She leads the match, also leads
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  Spain in shots, chances created and passes into the final third.
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  She was on absolute fire. Everything was running through
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  her. But yeah, despite, you know,
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  their frustration, like just kind of kept chipping away,
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  chipping away. And it it took them time, but
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  they got then they end up getting it done, obviously.
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  Yeah, and I mean, it seemed like there was.
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  We talked about, you know, Germany's defense playing well,
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  but it seemed like there was a coordinated effort by Spain to
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  go after Francisca KET. I mean, you know, 20 year olds
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  for Bayern Munich, not a ton of experience.
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  We've we've praised her for coming on and playing well in
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  this tournament, but it felt like she was losing duels left
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  and right in this match And and Barcelona there we go.
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  Already tried to call him Barcelona once.
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  Let's do a notch that tally. But Spain?
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  Just got to step up. Yeah, exactly.
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  Spain was going to was going to try to take advantage of that
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  and they were they're finding some joy there.
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  Kent had that what could have amounted to a an absolute howler
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  where she basically played the ball to a stair.
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  I think it was around like the 21st minute and a stair cracked
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  it with her right foot. But you know, obviously Anne
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  Katrinberger is going to be a brick wall for as long as
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  humanly possible. It's just who she is in in
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  tournament play, really just in any, any time she's on the
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  pitch. But yeah, I mean, that you had
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  the the Peretis header off the post.
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  Germany was holding tough. Spain was just like, we're going
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  to do our thing. We're going to get into our
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  stuff. We're going to, you know, run
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  our, our like, our routes essentially like all over the
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  field. And it felt like toward the end
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  of the first half, it was real scary hours for Germany where it
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  looked like Spain was going to get one before the half.
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  And I think obviously, you know, shout out to Laura Harvey, head
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  coach of Seattle Rain FC, who always says in the post game
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  press conference, goals change games.
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  I thought that could have been a real gut punch to Germany.
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  But they held it. They held off at least in that
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  first half. I mean obviously well into extra
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  time, but Spain, it's another one of those things where did
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  they play their A+ game? Definitely not, but their A
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  minus game. They can still get across the
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  line against a a great competitor like Germany.
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  Yeah, they I think some of the stats are pretty telling for the
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  match. So I, I actually thought KET
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  was, was pretty good on the left side defensively, you know,
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  considering her inexperience like that, I thought she was up
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  for the duels and kind of like was at least involved in stuff.
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  And it's funny because like when you mentioned Shukaduskin, who
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  Newskin was or was replaced by was, you know, 30 year old Sarah
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  Dembritz, who just was not super involved in the match.
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  As an example, I think 2020 ish touches and 64 minutes in the
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  midfield where, you know, a lot of the the action was happening.
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  But I thought, you know, you look at some of the stats.
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  So Spain 340 touches in Germany's half, but only 39 in
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  Germany's box. So that's kind of where Germany
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  was like, all right, we're going to hold the line here.
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  And you know, to their credit, if you can get bodies there and
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  they could be in the right place, everybody's positioning,
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  everybody's marking, and then those extra bodies are just in
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  the right lane, taking away passing and shooting lanes.
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  And then you have beggar in like in in goal.
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  You can kind of get away with a little bit of bend, but don't
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  break, you know, and I think what Spain was doing was trying
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  to go wide. You know, I think it was a lot
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  of like Patri, like going wide with passes or Battier or
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  Carmona just running with it. That's what Germany was giving
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  up. I think they were happy to do
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  it. They were happy to kind of like
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  let Spain possess give them a little bit of room even, but
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  just they they weren't going to take they weren't going to get
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  beat with like the back door cut is essentially, it's like, all
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  right, Well, now it's like 01 pass away from just an easy tap
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  in. To Germany's credit, they just
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  took that off the board and you know what we talked about Spain,
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  Switzerland, it's like we're not going to let we're not going to
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  beat ourselves. We're not just going to give you
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  a goal. And I think when you see when
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  the actual goal happens in this one, welded to add an extra
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  time, you know, credit to Germany's, you know, game plan,
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  Christian VOC. Like I think exactly what they
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  set out to do, they were able to do.
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  They were probably looking for a score.
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  Clara Boule really close a couple times.
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  You know, you talk about like some of the offensive stats.
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  She led the match in shots, touches in the opponent's box
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  and chance is created for either team.
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  She was either #1 or tied for first in in all three of those
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  categories. So she was super dangerous.
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  I think they were looking for for Bull to be able to cash in
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  at some point. Got close, got real close, but
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  not able to get it done. I mean, she got close in the
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  eighth minute. That pass from Berger, like way
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  up the field, I couldn't, I couldn't quite tell if it was a
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  Hoffman dummy or if she barely got a piece of it.
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  But you could tell it was from the training ground where, you
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  know, Hoffman runs in and and Bull comes around like that.
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  And when that happened, you know, I was just like, what kind
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  of game are we going to get here?
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  If if like that chance happens for Germany in the eighth
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  minute. But, you know, like you said and
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  like we'd always talk about, Spain's press is just dominating
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  and Germany had to pick their spots.
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  But they had some opportunities in there and, you know, they
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  just needed to be really precise and really efficient with those
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  opportunities, which is so much easier said than done,
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  especially against Spain's defense.
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  But then when Katakoi is playing the way she did behind that
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  Spanish defense, they're almost impossible to beat.
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  She. Was awesome and you know my my
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  favorite thing, you know my my favorite thing about Katakoi
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  obviously obviously played in a bunch of big games.
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  We always find some joy in the fact that realizing she's still
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  just 20, just turned 24 years old and all this championship
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  experience, that wildest thing about Katakoi's game is she'll
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  go 60-70 minutes with nothing to do, like nothing to do.
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  And then just get, because she plays for Spain, she plays for
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  Barcelona, she gets to play in these highest leverage Creme de
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  la Creme type matches where even though she might go 6070 without
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  facing anything, when she does, it's going to be something very,
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  very intense, you know, and that's not easy to do to just
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  stand around and like be ready, you know, be ready to locked in,
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  you know, like when something 100 miles an hour's coming your
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  way. And consistently, consistently,
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  she gets that done, you know, nothing doing nothing doing
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  called into action. And she just is it.
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  It looks like she's had 50 saves on the day.
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  Like it is how springy she is. How, you know, instinctive she
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  is, you know, just cover how much ground she covers.
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  She's awesome. And I think there were
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  definitely a couple spots. It it it, it made me think a lot
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  about the the matches that she missed early in the group stage
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  where Spain did let in one or two goals.
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  It's like if if they don't have got that going today, I don't
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  think they win them. I, I think flat out, I don't
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  think they win the match. Wow, I love it.
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  It's a good take. Springy is such a good way to
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  describe her. I was going to mention like, I,
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  I think about like her flexibility of like, you know,
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  you'll see the way she'll like dive backwards.
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  I thought Lori Lindsay had a had a funny comp where she had said
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  like it that save that she makes when bulls shot takes just the
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  wicked deflection off Ola Carmona's back, which I'll be
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  like way late too. In like the highest leverage
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  situation. It's like the 88th minute.
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  I think at that point or no, no, I, I think the, that bullshot, I
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  think that was they were in stoppage time.
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  I think it was 90 + 4. It takes the IT takes a
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  deflection off Carmona's back and she has to kind of track
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  back. You know, it's it looks like a
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  like a a difficult pop up in baseball to get it off the line.
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  And then she gets it off the line, falls into the goal and
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  then has the flexibility and the springiness to your point to
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  like slingshot herself using the net and then get back into
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  position to stop Vomser's shot. I mean, those are two game
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  saving and eventually game-winning saves by Coy.
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  Yeah, pretty wild. I went back and looked in Liga
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  F, the season 22 matches played, thirty shots on target attempted
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  against her. So roughly one shot on target a
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  match in Liga F20 over the whole entire season.
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  And you know, and this is what she's got to do.
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  She's got to just stand there with again, not a whole lot to
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  do and, you know, just face your best because like every every
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  team that she's playing in that 70th, 80th minute, you get their
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  best shot. Like they're like they're
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  digging as deep as they possibly can.
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  And we see it time and time again.
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  She just steps up and and stuffs it, you know, and it like, I
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  don't know, also a very unsung big gamekeeper for sure and got
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  a great got that going game today for sure.
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  I want to talk a little Aitana, I think, I think, I think an
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  apology is in order. You know, I I had I had a little
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  a little conversation starter last episode where I was like,
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  all right, well, if we could have any player, you know, who
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  would we take? You know, and and you to your
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  credit, took Alexia, I thought was a good pick.
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  I took, you know, Pina, which I thought was a good pick and
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  Aitana just was like, you dummy, you imbecile, you as stupid
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  though I am the greatest player on the planet.
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  And let me tell you why I thought what Beaumonti was doing
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  today was, was really exciting, very purposeful, very
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  intentional with some of those moves and some of those pivots
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  in the box. Like let me let me open up a lot
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  of space here because I'm just tired of Germany like kind of
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  suffocating us. And we got a really creative
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  Beaumonti performance from an offensive standpoint.
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  The goal comes late, but what what was your what was your take
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  on on the the entire Beaumonti performance today?
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  You know, we've seen her show up in the gigantic moments too,
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  right? Like, I mean, she she has that
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  in her game. She's a two time Balandor winner
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  for a reason. Yeah, when we had talked about
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  like who would our our first picks be?
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  The guy had mentioned like, Oh yeah, I'd take Alexia one and
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  then probably and Bone Latitu and then Pina.
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  And even then, you know, she would probably call me in a
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  stupido as well. So, like, I think that's just,
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  you know, like you said, she has the crown.
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  She is the best player in the world.
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  And you know, her vision, the toughness, she just, and it's
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  still and like, I shouldn't be surprised.
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  She just turns The Jets on so quickly sometimes around like,
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  God damn, she's faster than everybody too.
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  Like, like on top of all of her other attributes, she's just
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  gonna run by you. And that, yeah, when she gets
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  the goal, the dummy that she that she plays and then the, the
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  immediate, the the like the quick twitch turn to get like to
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  get faced up. I, I think Lori Lindsay had said
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  like, oh, I don't know if she said it outright, but she it
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  seemed like she was kind of hinting at maybe it was a cross
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  where she said something to the effect of like she wanted to
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  play the ball in the middle. I don't think so.
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  It soon didn't look like like you see her like she glances up
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  when she hits it. I think she's staring down at
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  the ball, but like when she's looking up, you can tell she's
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  looking at exactly where she wanted the ball to go.
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  And it's in the it's it's side netting.
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  Because I like her. She just computes everything so
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  quickly to where she's like, oh, burger's off the line a little
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  bit, I'll sneak that past. And she had to hit a rocket to
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  sneak it past her. But it's what she does.
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  A rocket with like very little wind up very little window, you
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  know, and I and I wrote in my notes, like on Koch and Burger,
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  like obviously a vet, you know, seen it all, but never seen that
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  before. I guess from that player, like,
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  I mean from that player, from that angle, you know, those
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  stakes, that moment, like that's just not you could tell Berger
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  was like just not didn't, didn't think that that angle was
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  possible from how she was playing because she's she's even
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  kind of floating away from the window.
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  You know, she's like, OK, oh Beaumont TS going, you know,
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  closer to the end line. That means that I can, you know,
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  come and play this cross and move, you know, slide over the
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  other way. Didn't think it was possible in
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  any way, shape or form that that Beaumont, he was going to get it
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  by her. And I agree with you.
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  Like if that was double L's take.
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  I, I think I'm, I'm way on the other side.
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  I think I'm way on the other side.
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  That was 1000% a shot. And that's ultimately what I
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  love about tournament football is sometimes it just comes down
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  to that your best player versus their best player, and
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  somebody's going to win this little duel.
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  And this little duel is going to, you know, effectively decide
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  the match. And like that's kind of what we
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  got in the 100, what, 113th minute.
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  Yeah, and the obviously this is an extremely we're on record.
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  We got a million receipts. This is an extremely pro Lori
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  Lindsay podcast never get that twisted ever in your life touch
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  type. Yeah, absolutely.
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  So, you know, I, I, I don't mean to misquote the legend.
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  I I think I just remember that. So please, you know, Fact Check
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  me, check me in general in the comments.
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  If I if I had that wrong. I, I want to read something
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  though, because it is, it is part of the just the brutal
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  nature of professional sports, of high leverage professional
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  sports where these athletes give so much of themselves, of their
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  identities to these matches. Here's on Katrin Berger after
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  the match. She said, quote, I take the
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  blame on myself. The near corner must have been
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  closed. Absolutely.
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  She went on to say, quote, I can make as many saves as I want,
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  but that should have been mine. I'm incredibly sorry for the
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  team. We're really disappointed.
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  A small mistake. One moment of not paying
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  attention and that's all the more bitter.
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  It's just disappointing. End Quote.
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  And so you just feel terrible for her in that spot.
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  You never want to see, you know, you think about like in American
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  sports, like Chris Webber or like Bill Buckner or something
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  where like, you know, something happens and you're just like, I
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  made this bad mistake. I think the thing that hopefully
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  Berger takes, you know, some solace in is 1.
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  She was a beast throughout this entire tournament.
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  She was absolutely fantastic. Germany's not in this position
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  without her. That's easy, easy money there,
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  there's no doubt. And then secondly, it's it's
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  Aitana Bona Mati who looked up, saw a saw a small window.
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  And, you know, sometimes you just lose to Michael Jordan.
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  That's just kind of how it goes sometimes.
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  Yeah, no doubt. I'm, I'm, I'm looking through my
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  notes. I took old school paper and pen
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  notes today. So apology, there was nothing in
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  the dark. But nice.
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  Speaking of Burger, there was a stretch here in the 42nd minute
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  and I've got it here. Perez hits post Estera bicycle
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  Mariona shot AKB save well worked Ester again AKB save pina
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  AKBC before halftime. So just like just like yeah,
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  burger burger, burger burger like right before halftime just
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  kind of getting pelted. So, you know, I don't there's no
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  way that giving up that goal is anywhere, anywhere near the
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  ballpark or the city or the zip code of the of Chris Rubber,
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  Bill Buckner for me, like, yeah, that was just getting beat by a
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  great player who saw an opportunity and caught you
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  leaning the wrong way. That's not I mean, if she took
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  if she got the ball and kicked it into her own net, we can talk
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  about that. But this was just again, their
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  best against your best and you know, their best.
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  Find a way to to sneak one by you like late in the match.
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  And and I think talking about how tough Germany was
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  defensively and and everybody played tough, Minga, Vomser,
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  Kleinhurner, like everybody like really was, was fully, fully
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  locked in. But those chances they chip away
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  at you like they're just coming. They're coming from different
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  players from different angles. And you just break defensively.
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  It's just too much, you know, becomes too much to kind of like
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  really account for. And that's why we see late in
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  matches, you know, the defense eventually caves against these
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  offenses that that are just too high-powered.
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  Yeah, I think that's that's totally fair.
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  And you know, the dam breaks eventually, like like you said,
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  and you always see on social media, it's one of the things
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  that I I'm always very open about is but I think most people
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  who talk about football, we just don't know a damn thing about
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  goalkeeping either. So like a lot of the goalkeeper
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  critics on on Wosso social media are just like can't get beat in
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  your post there. You're too far off the line.
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  And I'm just kind of like, I like I under I intellectually I
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  kind of understand the idea, but like, I don't know, I, you know,
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  like most people play in the field, right?
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  When we grow up playing football, like even at the
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  crappy levels that that we played soccer or whatever.
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  But like, I don't know, man. It's just a different, it's just
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  a different animal. It's like, you know, if you hear
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  people in baseball, they're talking about like catcher play.
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  It's like, how much do you know about that?
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  Like, yeah, you ever get it? Or like we're talking about the
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  center in, in NFL football, it's just like, come on, man.
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  Like it's, it's a, it's an incredibly difficult position.
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  Yeah, I mean it also, I I hate conversations that take away
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  from the magic. And for me the magic.
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  That's a good point. Was Bomati like, yeah, that
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  that's an awesome fucking goal. And like you can take, you can't
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  take anything away from from that.
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  And it's just such a sneaky like and a genius player with a
• 23:23
  sneaky finish in like a weird spot where they needed they
• 23:27
  needed that like they just needed it because this one goes
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  to PKS and all of a sudden it's like who knows what happens?
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  I mean, it's just like the coin flip of all coin flips.
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  And this this year has been extra coin flippy in this
• 23:40
  tournament. So they get it done in regular.
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  No, not in regulation, but add extra time and take PKS
• 23:45
  completely off the table. I did want to mention to one
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  other player first main. I thought battier today was
• 23:50
  awesome. No, Alessandra has mentioned, I
• 23:54
  think Battier not only picked up the slack creating, you know,
• 23:57
  offensively, second on the team and touches 124 today, but also
• 24:02
  tracking back defensively, you know, providing an extra body
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  piece of personnel back there just to kind of as a backstop to
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  help Mendez and Perettas when needed.
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  I thought she was really important.
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  And then as mentioned, you know, Boule on one side, Bron on the
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  other and you know, Spain was able to keep them in check.
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  Battier a big a big part of that as well.
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  Yeah, no doubt. I mean, it's it's the backbone
• 24:24
  of every great team. I think if there was another
• 24:27
  player that I wanted to mention, no surprise for anybody who's a
• 24:31
  follower of the pod, but predictably Olga Carmona was
• 24:33
  great. I mean, there was the weird
• 24:35
  deflection that Koi had to make the save on, but just another
• 24:39
  big game player who's going to play with gigantic heart out
• 24:43
  there. I know it's not the most
• 24:44
  measurable characteristic you could have, but when you have
• 24:48
  when you have those on the back line and you know you have to
• 24:50
  put in Mendez instead of Aljandre, you know she's going
• 24:54
  to be buoyed by bartier Carmona. And I've heard I've heard, but
• 24:59
  it has take a little bit of stick on wosso social media.
• 25:02
  So I thought, you know, again, a good performance by her and
• 25:08
  they'll see England in the final at this point.
• 25:10
  And, you know, England has good defenders, but it's not like
• 25:14
  they have the most reliable defense.
• 25:16
  So I think we're in for a very interesting rematch of the 2023
• 25:22
  World Cup final. Hell yeah.
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  And what do you say we get together tomorrow to talk about
• 25:27
  it? That'll be fun.
• 25:28
  I think that's fine. And I think to your Paretta's
• 25:30
  point, I totally agree. I think Paretta's been awesome
• 25:34
  in this tournament, better than I think we saw her play this
• 25:37
  past season in Barcelona. And, you know, just another
• 25:41
  reminder that, you know, club forum and, you know,
• 25:44
  international forum, they're, they're all, there always could
• 25:47
  be some differences there. And, you know, it always trips
• 25:50
  me out to when I think about the, the US swimsation team in
• 25:52
  Roosevelt, 'cause sometimes people like, oh, well, Roosevelt
• 25:55
  is just getting up in there in age.
• 25:56
  So I'm not sure if, you know, we'll want to bring that play.
• 25:58
  And I was like, we're trying to win a tournament that takes
• 26:00
  place over three weeks. You know, we're not building a,
• 26:03
  you know, we're not building a franchise for the next 10 years.
• 26:05
  We, we sort of are. But first and foremost, it's
• 26:08
  about winning this tournament. And you know, Peretta is a
• 26:10
  perfect example of like a player that was built and was was ready
• 26:15
  to help Spain win this tournament, get to the final.
• 26:18
  And then, you know, it's been playing awesome.
• 26:19
  I think she's she's gotten, I think he's either scored or
• 26:21
  she's definitely hit the post more than once, you know, and
• 26:25
  just involved defensively, like super dependable and just
• 26:29
  playing great. So I think I totally echo that
• 26:30
  Peretta's point. So shout out to her as well.
• 26:32
  We'll see if we'll see what the defenses look like when when the
• 26:36
  final rolls around on Sunday. Yeah, and it's a good point by
• 26:39
  you to point out that Beretta has had some had some rough
• 26:42
  moments for Barcelona. And that's and that's probably
• 26:44
  what I'm thinking of what people kind of jumping on Wilson blue
• 26:47
  skies. So I think, you know, some of
• 26:49
  that is fair, but it's tournament time and Spain is is
• 26:54
  turning up big. So I don't know, dude.
• 26:56
  I feel like we're in for a classic, but I'll I'll save the
• 26:59
  rest of the takes for the preview.
• 27:01
  Yep, Spain is turning up big, as are your boys.
• 27:04
  So episode calendar, sad to say we won't be back tomorrow, you
• 27:09
  know, but we will be back. Oh, sorry, we will be back
• 27:12
  tomorrow to preview the final. But that's the last time we'll
• 27:14
  be back tomorrow. And then we'll be back Sunday to
• 27:18
  to recap the final. I mean, you remember the 2023
• 27:22
  World Cup? I wasn't.
• 27:24
  I was pretty confident throughout the tournament.
• 27:26
  But then when England went up against Spain, I was less
• 27:29
  confident. I still predicted an England
• 27:31
  victory in the final. Obviously that didn't work out.
• 27:35
  So yeah, I don't know a lot of a lot of soul searching to be done
• 27:38
  by your boy over these next 24 hours.
• 27:41
  All right, man, well, I'm definitely counting on you to do
• 27:44
  it. This has been another subject to
• 27:46
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• 27:47
  for hanging out. If you enjoyed the show or love
• 27:49
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  except one in the shows of this episode.
• 28:02
  And a big thank you to my coach as well, Mr. Grant Angle for a
• 28:06
  debutante no more. He's a veteran.
• 28:09
  He talked about Spain being informed and ready for the
• 28:11
  final. I mean, that that makes two.
• 28:13
  Well, I guess that makes three of us, Spain, England and your
• 28:17
  boys at the ITC, which, you know, is just not possible
• 28:20
  without you, man. I appreciate you bro.
• 28:22
  Likewise, buddy, nobody I'd rather do it with.
• 28:24
  And Speaking of inform, I mean, I just appreciate you guys
• 28:28
  coming in full force. Like a couple of our last few
• 28:32
  last few shows have just put up like gigantic numbers continue
• 28:36
  compared to like the history of the show.
• 28:37
  So just we greatly appreciate you guys watching dropping
• 28:41
  knowledge in the comments as always, just thank you so much
• 28:44
  for for rocking with us. It's been a great tournament.
• 28:46
  Looking forward to a great final and we will see you all next
• 28:49
  time.