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🇩🇪 Germany 🇸🇪 Sweden ADVANCE! 🏆 UEFA WOMEN'S EURO 2025 | Denmark 🇩🇰 Poland 🇵🇱 Eliminated Group C MD7 Matchday 7 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast Permala about women's
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football. I'm your host, Dean of
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Desuspitas, and as always, I'm joined by my coast, Mr. Grant
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Engel. What is up man?
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I'm feeling fantastic, buddy. Day seven of the UEFA Women's
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Euro, we've made it through a full week.
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I guess we haven't really made it through yet.
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We still have somewhere between 21 and 37 minutes left of this.
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Show 37 weeks. I'm feeling I'm feeling great a
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week into this thing. Same, same.
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I think the week's flown by, you know, I got my first little
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tinge of, you know, wistfulness thinking about the group stage
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coming to an end on Sunday and that that being the end of the
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the 12 for 12, assuming that we can make it to the finish line
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here. But good game of good day of
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football, Mr. Grant, Angle where you want to get started.
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Let's do chronological order. I mean, obviously we had a
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couple of big dogs playing in separate matches here.
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When in doubt, always go chronological.
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I'd also like to start with the beverages.
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I'm just going to crack that guy there.
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And nice. Sounds great.
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Cheers to you. Cheers to the football and the
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first match of the day. Germany 2, Denmark one.
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I want to say in honor of that, I'm drinking this beer from Sea
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Pine Brewing Company, one of my favorites here in Seattle.
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Probably like a 10 minute bicycle ride from from the
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house. It is a traditional German
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pilsner with light straw color and a medium body.
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I've often been described the same way.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got the second kid coming
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and I'd like to keep my body at a medium and not approach too
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much of the large or extra large territory.
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We'll see, see how that goes. You know, pushing my mid 40s
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here. So all of it's really a blessing
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at this point. But back to the football, some
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real stakes here. So, you know, Denmark obviously
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still alive coming into this match, Germany and Sweden
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jockeying for position. Kabul, according to our, you
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know, with with help from our guy Peter Visey, was freaking
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dominant today. Highest spot moderating second
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in the match in touches, 93 touches first in shots first,
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first in touches in the opposition box 1st a chance is
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created. I mean was all over the place,
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you know, just kind of like ripping shots.
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I mean it couldn't couldn't put a ton on target.
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But I think that that was an issue for the the German offense
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more broadly. But this is a superstar player
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like this is their best player like this is the player to watch
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when you're watching Germany play like she's doing
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everything. There's nothing the defenses can
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do. I thought this was really more
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about the German defence to be honest.
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I think offensively, you know, a little bit flat.
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I think the, the, the, the, the thing that I, I keep looking at
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is their shot on target percentage.
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So today 27 shots, just five on target.
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I'm going to read you four teams in the tournament, 4 big teams
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that are probably in Germany's category that have, that have
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all played two matches. So I'm leaving out like the
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Frances and the Englands and the Netherlands so far.
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So Spain, they're sitting at 32.7% of their shots are on
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target. Norway 38.4, They're not putting
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a ton of shots up, but they're, I mean, they're doing the most
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with their looks. Even Sweden, they're at 27 1/2%.
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Germany only 11 for 5221.1% of their shots are on target.
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I'm not sure you know what. What do you think about that
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German offense? You know, they just have a lot
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of moments where, you know, one of the wingers go to blast a
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shot and it ends up just going over the crossbar.
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It feels like you get a lot of that in some of these scenarios.
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Now they also do hit a decent amount of like, I don't want to
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call them like fully speculative shots, but they'll hit those
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shots kind of from like a like a cat, a corner angle trying to
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like, you know, hit one across far post and beat the keeper and
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then just be like a meter wide or, you know, a yard wide,
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something like that. So yeah, I think they're they
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tend to take shots that when they go in, they look
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spectacular and you're like, wow, what amazing skill.
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And then when you miss some of those, you have the ones that
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you go, oh man, just missed it or you go, oh, wow, that never
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had a chance at going in. So I think that it feels like, I
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think that's kind of part of their attack.
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But it does create a scenario too though, where the opposing
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defenders like always have to be on edge standing around the
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outside of the 18 because you never know you like we talked
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about it last match, they have like 6 players on the field at
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any given time who can score from from 20 yards out.
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We talked about in the preview that they had like something
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like 14 players that had scored in the nation, some some
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ridiculous number. I think for me this on this day,
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it was Germany's defense, you know, so just to kind of like
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quick run through the match. So Vangsgaard opens up the
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scoring in the 26th minute with a really great strike, you know,
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and and had been quiet up until that point, was pretty quiet
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after that. And then we could Fast forward
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to the second-half. Germany gets two goals, both of
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them included, not really controversy, but neither of them
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were a slam dunk. So the first one, obviously it's
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Linda Dahlman kind of get the soft foul of the box.
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She gets the penalty call, goes to VAR, the extended VAR, and it
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ends up being the penalty. We're fine with that.
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Not, not, not really an issue, You know, contact in the box,
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albeit it was super light. And then the second one is the
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one where Snarl takes the ball to the face and just crumples
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into a heap, you know, on the on the pitch.
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And it kind of a scary moment because usually, you know, the
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player gets, you know, takes the shot and kind of, you know,
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rides around a little bit and you can kind of see it.
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But Snarl was just kind of motionless and just either
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collecting herself or, you know, wasn't fully present in that
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moment. And then Lea Schuler gets the
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goal, you know, and you can't really blame Germany for
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continuing the attack. It was kind of like a Bang Bang
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type situation. But I really did feel for
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Denmark, You know, they they fought hard in that first match.
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They have the lead in this one, backs against the wall and the
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game just kind of slips away with these two kind of weird
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plays, you know, where you probably go home and feel like,
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damn, how did how did we lose that one?
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It seems like we we had it. But I mean, the last week, no,
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German's defense, Denmark didn't didn't attempt a shot in the
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second-half. You know, I think they had 57%
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pass completion, 25% possession, 57% pass completion is almost
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for every pass you complete, the next one is incomplete.
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You know, that would be 5050. So Germany made it impossible
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for them. Probably more of a defensive.
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I'll probably remember Germanys defense on this day.
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Yeah. And I think you should.
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And I think if the the Danish players are kind of going home
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and looking at themselves and saying, how do we lose that
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match? It's completing 64% of your
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passes throughout the entirety of the match.
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You know, let alone that that bad second-half, it's allowing
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Germany to have 237 touches in in, in your defensive half and
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you only and you only having 51 touches in their defensive half.
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So like touches in the in the attacking 18, losing that battle
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36 to 8, It's like it's hard to win.
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The margin for error is tiny. Yeah, I've seen I've seen more
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contact not be called a penalty on that Dalmont penalty.
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But you know, when you have to operate with such razor thin
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margins like that, you're not giving like those 5050 calls,
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those will damn you in the end because you're not giving
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yourself any any space. I just want to say one quick
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thing about that penalty from shut the Newskin.
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She steps up to take it. Well, she she stepped up to take
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the one in the first half, the one that was like the handball
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that looked like he was in the box, but then it was outside the
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18 or outside of the box. Newskin stepped up to take that
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one. It gets called back, obviously.
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Newskin steps up to take the second one.
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And I was like, OK, like over over Bull and over bron over
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Shula Schuler. Huh.
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OK, I guess that's fine. And then she took it and I was
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like, oh, OK, yeah, right call because that she hit a laser
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like with full confidence. None of the the stutter step
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nonsense, nothing like that. Just I'm going to step up, I'm
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going to blast it left hand side.
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You'll dive the right way and you still won't get it.
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Yeah, no, it was supremely well struck.
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Yeah, keep her, keep her heads the right way.
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And nowhere, nowhere near it wasn't even close.
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Definitely love that moment from Nu Skin.
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A couple other moments I wanted to hit in this match.
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Well, actually before not not quite a moment, but Carlotto
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Vamser is quickly becoming a player that is impossible not to
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notice how good or how fast. Or you know how effective or
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productive you know she she looked great coming in and and
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obviously replacing the captain Julie Vin.
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I wrote my notes a couple different moments.
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You LeBron had a moment at 47 where she did a spin move right
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at the edge of the box. My initial thought was the and
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one voice guy in my. I was like the professor, you
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know, so. And there we go and.
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Then Clara Bull had another one in the 83rd minute.
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I don't remember the defender, but she kind of like, you know,
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just does the dance and the defender kind of, you know,
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falls backwards like a very, a very kind of like crossover type
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moment. And I, I know it's a different
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player, but I, I in my head also unleashed the professor in the
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last moment. I'll mention Rebecca Kanak gets
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the yellow card on Yanni Thompson because she completely
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wipes her out. And I think ahead of the play, I
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think Shukanooskin might have been ahead of the play, but they
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I think it went to replay. They were looking at it for a
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dog. So, but they ultimately decided
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against it. So in that instance, you know,
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it was the rarely seen denial of a denial of an obvious goal
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scoring opportunity or the da dog.
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So we got really close. I'd love to, you know, I just
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want to make sure that the IGC personal record book captured
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that moment. It's it's absolutely important
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now see, now you got it in my head.
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What was his name? Blail.
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Was it MC Rel? I would was that the guy who
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used to? I think that might be the guy
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who was calling the action on the court during the end or
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mixtape tour. I Yeah, correct.
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You know anybody in the chat correct me if I'm wrong?
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I'm our pal Big X. The hug on on Blue Sky might be
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able to correct me on that. I wouldn't be shocked if he did.
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I went through a. Couple and one nickname.
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So I was like, all right, half brand, half amazing.
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No, that doesn't quite work because I got to change that,
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you know, that's good. I was workshopping.
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I like it. I mean, I just remember I used
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to love when hot sauce would have the ball and the announcer
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would just go hot sizzle, hot sizzle and like as dribbling.
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That's just like all my favorite parts.
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Anyway, tangent. But yeah, look, I mean, Germany,
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they're the better squad. I I get how Denmark can could
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think they left some stuff on the table there.
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I could get how some German fans might be like, not as convincing
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as maybe we would have liked, but here you are.
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You have two wins out of two matches.
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I think you're in a little bit of a weird spot.
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We'll talk about what led to that.
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But now you got to get a result and you got to get a win in in
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the final match, which you probably don't like so much, but
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you still have the possibility to win the group.
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You could you could ask for more, but it's not like you're
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in a bad spot. You know, you're going through
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for sure. And we can maybe talk about some
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of the possible machinations after this.
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But I will be very interested to see what kind of lineup Germany
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fields when they have to go up against Sweden in the final
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match. I I was thinking about this from
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a game theory standpoint. So obviously, you know, just to
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kind of like clarify what the situation is.
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Sweden and Germany are even on points, both on six.
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They play each other match day three.
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So that that's going down on Saturday.
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And Sweden takes the group with a win or a draw because they're
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one goal better on goal difference.
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Germany has to win outright. All of this there may be
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possibly a moot point because Group C plays Group D and Group
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D is just England, France and Netherlands in some order.
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So it's like, all right, maybe get England, maybe get France,
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maybe get Netherlands. And for that reason, I think if
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it were me and I was coaching either these teams, Germany or
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Sweden, I would actually come out in the press conference and
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be like, we're playing our second team.
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So put me down team, team rest under these circumstances, you
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know, you know, like boop, chalk it up and I'll tell you why.
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Because and if you wait until match day, like there's some
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uncertainty there and they could look like you're looking at
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their lineup and trying to react off that.
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And now it's a whole, what if they play their second team and
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you play your first team and they went, you know, like
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there's so many things that can go wrong.
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So I think for me, the best, the best, most sound decision is to
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say we're going to play our second team.
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Our first team's going to sit. If we get a result, awesome.
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If we don't get a result, they got reps, big time reps in the
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European Championship. And ultimately it doesn't matter
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because either it's France or it's England or pick your
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poison, you know, in terms of like Group D, who's going to be
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waiting for you. So to me, this is the perfect
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position to employ something like that where you just get
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some of those second teamers. You know, they got a lot of, I
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mean, we talked about it, Germany specifically, a lot of
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young players on that team. We talked about their age
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profile in the in the preview and we, we saw a bunch of those
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young players start to come in as Subs and in, in Bobster's
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case, you know, now, you know, starter minutes.
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I think that makes sense. I guess like if you're Germany,
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I get you. You do have the luxury of what?
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So they beat France in the semi final of the last euro and then
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I can't remember if it was Nations League or just a
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friendly. They beat the brakes off
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Netherlands for nothing like not too long ago, I'm going to say
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earlier this year. So I mean, if you're Germany, it
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would be an interesting move to say we're going to arrest our
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stars. We're going to get the young
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players some run and we play who we play.
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We don't care. Send anybody on over here.
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We're we're not afraid. And they also had that friendly
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against England where I think the final score was four to
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three. It was not that close.
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They they beat the the crap out of them too.
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So, yeah, I think if you're Germany, you have the the
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freedom to do that. But you know, it's, it's also
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German football and they don't want to lose any matches.
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So I don't know. It'll be interesting to see what
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they decide on. Yeah, I'm dying to see the line
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UPS that's going to be that's going to be pretty awesome.
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And to be honest, 23 players in the roster are like all 23
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players are really good. So it there's no combination
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that's going to result in bad football when those two teams
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lock up. But let's talk about Sweden.
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Sweden 3, Poland, nil. I thought this one bigger spread
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between these two teams. I thought Sweden, you know, as
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as in control as Germany was versus Denmark.
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I thought Sweden, Sweden even more so versus Poland.
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They came out early and were attacking from different angles,
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like really put Poland on their heels defensively, you know, you
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know, he on one side, JRK, Aslani, like they just were
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angled all like everybody was very, very active, you know,
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from the jump. And I think they kind of wanted
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to take the the results off the table as early as they could.
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Definitely looked like it. I mean you know, he was super
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active from Jump Street. So was JRK down the right wing?
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I think in the first like 3 minutes, it felt like they had
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two chances that were like pretty decent.
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You had called it out in in the last episode where we we did the
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post match for the first round in this group.
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I think you said something like you wanted to see more JRK more
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more kannerooed or written cannery, pardon me, involved in
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the attack. And I think it's worth noting
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her touches inside the opposition box today, 17.
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Her touches in the in the opposition box versus Denmark 6.
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So JRK was way more involved. You could like feel how much
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more involved she was in this one.
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And I know like Poland is not like the stiffest competition in
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this tournament, but you know, I mean, Germany beat them two nil.
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You beat, if you're Sweden, you look at this and say we beat
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them three nil. It was probably more convinced,
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a little more convincing than that Germany win.
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So if you if you're if you're into some transitive property
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stuff, you could maybe look at that pretty optimistically if
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you're Sweden. Yeah.
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And I think Sweden today looked better than Germany did today as
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well. So, you know, Sweden's at the
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top of the group. I, I feel like they are probably
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playing the best if you, if you're setting odds, I think
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Sweden's just playing really, really great.
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I wanted to also call out new friend of the show at Golden
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Sweden on YouTube who responded to what I was saying.
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I think on the last episode where I was talking about, OK,
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JRK is getting busy, you know, yeah, Aslani, I thought they
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were, you know, maybe a little bit more static.
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I think he rightly pointed out, I'm sorry, I'm not sure if it's
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he. I think golden Sweden.
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Sweden rightly pointed out quotes.
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I think the one player with a rigid role in our attack is JRK,
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whereas, you know, he and Aslani have more of a free role in
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between opposition defense and the midfield to produce little
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commendations and create chances.
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And quote. I think that was perfectly said
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after the first match. Got to see it, you know, you
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mentioned, you know the early you got to see it and then
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Aslani gets the assist and it's not from the normal 10 spot.
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Aslani's assist is way deep on the right hand side kind of from
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the JRK spot. So I think they really were
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mixing it up, varying the attack like kind of felt like like a
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fighter trying to come in from different angles at different
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speeds and switch switch up the tempo.
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I I really love kind of how how much variance there was to it.
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And then, you know, you look at the defense, you look at their
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press that was really nasty. You look at Jennifer Falk in
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goal, who just instills a ton of confidence.
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I think the Sweden side playing really well.
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And I'm always kind of in the group stage.
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I'm always kind of looking for the team that's revving up, you
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know, sort of like trending in the right direction.
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Sweden feels like it could be that team.
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I think you're probably right. It's such a good point about
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like the varied runs. I thought Jen Beatty was great
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on commentary. I really like the combo.
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I've heard of John Strong. I think they're an excellent
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broadcast team. There was a moment where Aslani
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played it to JRKI think it was. And then she she like does that,
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that run in where she is moving like a little bit away from away
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from the goal, but she's getting into the the opposition's box.
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And it's just like that sets it up like perfectly.
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Like she's creating that own space for herself.
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It's kind of like counterintuitive for the
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defender, like when you're kind of tracking back like, oh, she's
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going away from the goal. And I just think they we wanted
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to see, we know the defense is good.
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Like you said, you know, Jennifer Falk is great.
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You just want to see like how how much more creative can the
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attack be? And you know, it's like you
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could just set your watch to it. They're going to be great on set
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pieces, as we saw with the Hurtig goal.
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You know, they can punish you there.
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It's just can they get some goals in the run of play?
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And I'll say, you know, we we talk about our predictions in
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these on these shows. I predicted Sweden to make the
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final. I've yet to see anything that
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makes me like really unsure about that pick.
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I think I still feel pretty good about it.
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I I'm glad you brought that up because I had Germany winning,
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winning the euro and I feel much less good about my well, I
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think, I think I do you feel beating England in the final
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well. Yeah, I mean, England, I'm not
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you. I don't know how great you
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should you should feel about that, but.
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About that one later. You feel much less good about
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it. You you like you're you lost a
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lot of confidence in that I. Lost a lot of confidence,
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absolutely, I think. And I think that there was a
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little bit of a mischaracterization about
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Germany and everybody sort of looking at Leia Schuler as like,
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oh, well, Leia Schuler, you know, she's not like Leia
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Schuler. Leia Schuler.
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I'm like, this team is not going to live and die with Leia
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Schuler. Like this is really like, she's
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in that spot, but she's not the linchpin.
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She's not the the turning point of of like how this team's going
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to go or not going to go. It really is Bron and Bull on
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the other side, Dahman in there. I think has has been a little
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bit underwhelming. You know, just I mean, she's
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she's in a prime position on the pitch, gets a lot of touches and
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not not doing a whole lot with it.
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I just think offensively they're missing a lot.
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They're missing like some bite. You know they're missing like,
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you know, like a shirt and lie type play or like a change of
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play or like a, you know, like. A Alexander Pop.
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Or Alexander pop in the middle that you can kind of get it to
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like the you know, like, I mean, yeah, for the Netherlands.
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I mean, that's that's the medium of spot, right?
20:41
Like just get it, get into our star and let them go 360 and
20:45
kind of figure out what to do next from here, you know, and
20:47
Germany just does not have that. We'll see if they can ride the
20:52
hey, let's defend, let's play a tight game.
20:55
Let's kind of like get the most of our opportunities.
20:56
Let's kind of be clinical in those two three moments that we
20:59
get. And who knows, maybe they they
21:01
want to ride that strategies for the final.
21:03
I think it's fair to say that you might be like less confident
21:08
in them making the final. But you know, but like, like you
21:11
also pointed out, though, I think the other side of that
21:13
coin is they're gearing up a little bit too.
21:16
Like, you know, we mentioned there's, there's, there's always
21:18
pressure on them. Germany so close to Switzerland,
21:22
you know, they have a, they had a massive crowd at that, that
21:25
match. I think it was, I think I saw in
21:27
the broadcast it set the record for the the highest attended
21:31
women's Euro game that didn't involve the host nation with
21:35
more than 34,000 in attendance. So I mean, that's pretty
21:38
incredible right there. So they're definitely not a shoo
21:41
in, but I just don't think that they're they're they're one of
21:44
the contenders. Like if you think about like if
21:46
we talk about like that big 5 or 6 of Spain, France, Germany,
21:55
England, Netherlands, Sweden, I think the the Champs are coming
21:59
from one of those six. Unless I'm just like, I don't
22:02
think I'm totally disrespecting anybody except obviously, Oh, I
22:06
did leave out the big seven. Obviously Norway in contention
22:11
as I picked to make the the semi final.
22:13
So apologies to all to all our pals at Norway.
22:16
Sorry about that. The the last thing I'll say
22:18
about Germany, we mentioned the machination.
22:21
So they're Group C, they're either going to face, I mean
22:23
wherever they finish, however it finishes, they're either going
22:25
to face either England or France or Netherlands in the opening
22:30
match of the quarterfinals. Now we know that we know who
22:33
their opponent is going to be one of those three teams.
22:36
And if you said, hey, you could pick either Germany to lose to
22:39
one of those three teams in the first round of the quarterfinals
22:42
or win the entire EUR. I feel like I'm putting my money
22:45
on, I would bet Germany losing in the first round to one of
22:48
those three teams. So I'm kind of at that point in
22:51
the journey where it's like I think coming to the turn around,
22:53
I'm like, this could be where they put it, put it together,
22:56
have not seen in these first. And I think, I think they played
22:59
a little worse today than they did in the first match.
23:02
So I don't totally think they're getting this together.
23:05
Maybe maybe they're that that is a little bit connected to my,
23:07
hey, let's play the second team against Sweden and see if we
23:10
could kind of shake it up and, and do a little bit of a reset
23:13
here on the fly. Because ultimately the result
23:15
doesn't matter anyway. And we don't want to go out
23:17
there with our first team and get and get washed a little bit
23:20
against Sweden, who I think is is in a little bit better form.
23:23
OK, that's all fair. All right.
23:25
I underestimated how much confidence you'd be leaking in
23:28
the in the Germany pick. But that's also because I'm
23:31
clearly an insane person and everybody's like, Norway played
23:34
terrible in the first two matches.
23:35
I'm like, I don't care. Everything's going fine.
23:38
Looked like wins to me. That's it Seemed to be what
23:41
happened. So, yeah, I think, you know, you
23:44
may have some more realism to your analysis, but you know
23:48
what? I'm going to wake up tomorrow
23:50
and I'm going to watch England wash Netherlands and, and secure
23:56
that that second spot on the table.
23:58
So, you know, from our pals at FanDuel, England is -120 to win
24:04
that match, Netherlands is +300 to win.
24:09
The draw is plus 260. I'm really surprised by that
24:14
line. And maybe a more cynical
24:16
version, maybe not an England version.
24:18
Fan of Grant might say. Plus 300 sounds like pretty good
24:22
value for Netherlands to win that match.
24:24
I don't know, call me crazy, just.
24:26
Trying to wonder if we find the draw here.
24:27
There's only been one draw in the EUR.
24:28
I mean, it's got to be due here. That line probably reflective of
24:32
England's back against the wall. Netherlands a little bit less
24:35
so. But I mean, if you're in the
24:36
Netherlands, you got to take on France in that third match.
24:39
You don't want to mess around. You want to kind of get a result
24:41
from here. I think the Netherlands probably
24:44
probably a better bet than plus 300 for sure.
24:47
I think this is going to be a very hotly contested match.
24:50
And if you're just, I mean, if if you show somebody an alien
24:53
just lands and you show them the first, the first two matches,
24:56
England's first match, Netherlands first match, I think
24:58
they'd be shocked to think that England would be that big a
25:03
favorite. I don't know, you know, I don't
25:04
know much about all that stuff. So which is clear from some of
25:08
my gambling advice in the past, so we'll leave that up to the
25:12
professionals. Yeah, maybe we'll start a
25:14
podcast with me about it. We'll see, you know, episode
25:18
calendar. So you already kind of alluded
25:19
to it. England, Netherlands, 9:00 AM
25:21
Pacific tomorrow, France, Wales follows that up, 12:00 PM
25:25
Pacific. And that closes out match day
25:27
two of three or match day 8 of 12.
25:30
However you want to think about that.
25:32
We're not, we're never even going to sort this out.
25:34
Doesn't really matter. Saturday, Group C back, back in
25:37
action, Poland taking on Denmark again, going to rack up some
25:41
great cardio there. Sweden, Germany, they'll be
25:44
battling for Group C and then we'll figure out who slots and
25:47
where as it pertains to the knockout stage.
25:51
All right, man, 7 down, 5 to go. We're we're in the second-half
25:55
here. We hit the dressing room, you
25:57
know, unleashed our half time adjustments.
25:59
You know, we're powering up. We we we loaded up our on on
26:03
orange slices. I don't know where I think we're
26:05
cooking, man. I feel like we're, I really was
26:08
worried about sputtering out, but I feel like we're, I feel
26:10
like we're revving up here. I mean, we are a tournament
26:13
team. We're we're gearing up, we're
26:16
getting better as a tournament progresses.
26:18
I think we have a real shot at winning this thing.
26:20
If you ask me, hoisting the trophy at the end.
26:22
I do have one last thing and I I don't know if I stepped on the
26:27
line if you asked me if I had anything else, did you already
26:30
ask me that? Anything.
26:31
Else you want to hit before we get out of.
26:32
Here. There we go.
26:33
Yeah, seven days in, we're cooking.
26:37
Let me say something about that. What are we cooking?
26:39
We don't know. Not sure yet.
26:42
One thing about that poll in Denmark.
26:44
Poland should be absolutely proud that this is their first
26:47
time making this tournament. They are debutantes, as we've
26:50
mentioned before. Let's see them get that first
26:53
euro goal out of the way in the final match of the group stage.
26:56
And it'd only be fitting if it comes from Evapayor.
26:59
And let's just say it'll come between the 25th and 35th minute
27:04
of that match. Let's let me set my tank chip
27:06
down on that. I like it.
27:08
I like it. It's pretty bold.
27:10
Yeah. And I think the flip side, I'd
27:11
like to see Denmark, you know, notch a little some something.
27:15
I think I think they for sure, I don't really cut the short end
27:17
of the stick in this tournament. I mean, playing Sweden and
27:21
Germany in your first two matches, I feel like that's the
27:24
toughest first two that any team had.
27:27
Maybe England could have a case, France and the Netherlands.
27:30
I think that's the only other team that could have a case of
27:33
the first two toughest match ups.
27:36
But either way, still a ton of good football to be played.
27:38
Very excited to be watching it, chopping it up, breaking it
27:42
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27:45
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Mr. Grande go for being my championship pick.
28:13
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My guy stays my championship pick and that's just the way it
28:19
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28:20
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28:23
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28:26
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28:27
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28:31
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