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OK, welcome to into the channel podcast Premier about 1 so far.
I'm your host Dino de Suspiciousand as always, I am joined by my
Co host Mr. Grant Angle. What is up man?
I'm feeling all right, buddy. I feel like I watched a crazy
back and forth, almost like a tennis match, just watching the
ball go back and forth and just watching.
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Maybe a car careening all acrossseveral highway lanes, perhaps
on the autobahn even. I don't know.
But that was a wild, wild match today.
I kind of equated it to, and I'mgoing to talk about France's
offense here. You know, in the action movie
where the the villain is just sending a bunch of goons at like
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the hero and then it's just one at a time.
They just go, they just go get obliterated one at a time.
That was like France's offensiveattack today.
It was just right, like Khashoggi's like, I got this.
He was like, no, I got this. Like Diani's like, no, on my
turn. It's just like they just kept
getting like sent, sent away. And, you know, by the end of the
movie, it's over and you're justlike, oh, wow.
I despite all of our all of the hints along the way, Yeah, it
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went the other way. Yeah, I think that's a that's a
pretty good analogy, my good man.
It was. And this one not even like a
traditional movie. You didn't think the under?
I had no point. Well, it eventually got to the
point, but I didn't think the underdog was going to win in
this situation. And it's weird calling Germany
an underdog, but once you get that red card in the 13th
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minute, there had to be no way that they were going to win.
Already down, great defenders, you know, Julia Givens sitting
there on the sideline. I just it's hard to even wrap
your head around how they did it.
I'm not gonna ask you where we're gonna get started.
We're gonna get started with a little bit of France, Germany
talk. But how about we also quench the
palate a little bit? You know, I'm sure much like
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much like myself, he probably worked up a sweat today watching
these matches, trying to assemble these takes, trying to
put get a show together, trying to get a semi final preview
together. We'll talk about that one later.
So I don't know, let's let's crack a couple beverages just to
make sure that we stay hydrated.I think that's a good idea, my
good man. And we might as well also say,
there we go, that sounds good. And obviously everybody knows
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what we're here to talk about. France won.
Germany won. Germany advances 65-ON penalties
in a wild one. Unbelievable.
Unbelievable. You mentioned the red card
early. It was crazy because Germany
gets off to like a really rocky start.
Obviously the red card is tough,but that wasn't the only moment.
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You know, obviously Katherine Enrich has a total, a total
mental meltdown there and you know, just grabs a handful of
hair, has no bearing on the actual play, gets the red card.
They fall behind. And I think the most interesting
part for me was what happened inthe next 5 minutes.
So obviously Henrich is off. Galloro puts in the penalty
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kick, then Stry Linder kind of comes up a little lame.
She's got an injury. Like I don't know who knows the
severity, but she didn't really look like she wanted to play.
And then Christian Verk gets a ayellow card and this is all
within like 20 minutes. And it's like at this point I'm
like, this is like full Germany meltdown at this point.
You're down one nil, you're downa player.
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It's 15 minutes in, manager's got a yellow card.
Another defender. We talked about the German
defense, kind of like how Swiss cheesy it was.
They're now done another player and I think the turning point.
I'd be interested to hear if youkind of picked them on any first
half turning points. But for me, there was a turning
point when another debutante, Giovanna Hoffman, it just makes
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a run one on everybody. And then like, you know, I think
I think she got a corner out of it, if I'm not mistaken.
And that actually might have been the corner that ends up
being the new sing goal. But I think I think that, yeah,
I'm I'm pretty sure that's right.
It was a Hoffman run that leads to the the corner that becomes a
new sing goal. But I thought that run went
against everything that was happening momentum wise for
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Germany up to that point and then obviously leads to the
corner. Here are my notes.
I want to talk about Giovanna Hoffman.
Here are my notes from when the line when the lineups are
announced. And you know, I'm sitting there,
I, I see, I take a look, I see no Leia Schuler and I see
Hoffman there at the number 9. And in my notes I write Giovanna
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Hoffman is the #9 for Germany 25year old who scored eleven goals
and had five assists for Leipziglast season and found
Bundesliga. And then, you know, you hear in
the pregame this will be her first competitive start for
Germany. And I was like, OK, Mr. Verk,
that's a bold decision, but I think you're totally right.
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Like after the penalty and just the, you know, the lender
injury, she makes that run and she had to muscle to get the
ball downfield like that. And I was like, OK.
And I think one thing about our show, we don't pretend like
we're going to be experts in every single league.
I'm not familiar with Hoffman's game at this point.
Believe it or not, it wasn't locked into Leipzig last season.
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Like we didn't see, you know, we'll, we'll watch like, you
know, some of the Wolfsburg games of the Frankfurt games.
Obviously Byron through the course of this is a Champions
League show for anybody who's kind of joined us, like the
genesis of of our program. So I didn't watch a lot of
Leipzig. So I don't know.
I don't really know anything at all about about Hoffman, and I
thought she was impressive not just in that spot but in other
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spots throughout the match. Yep, didn't know about her
coming in, know about her now. Killer work rate.
You know, I thought it wasn't just her, but I thought that
moment, that moment, you know, based on where the vibes were
heading, I thought really, really changed the game.
And then, you know, I was reallyexcited to see Chicaduska and
the the player that I I mentioned as a player to watch
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kind of get that header. And then I also have to call out
she had this is so stupid, but she had the one like warrior
braid, like that one Game of Thrones wildling braid in her
hair that just looked like, I don't know it it it turns a
regular looking person into somewhat of a wild card,
especially in a match like this.And I don't know, she just
looked like such a badass with that one single warrior braid.
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I was I was I was kind of way, way behind that look.
But new skin obviously gets the header.
I mean, the precision on that was amazing.
And then to rewind a little bit and Ketchenberger had herself an
unbelievable game. And for me, it actually started
on the Gayoro penalty kick, the first goal of the match, where
if you go back and rewatch it, actually go back and rewatch it
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and look how fast and Ketchenberger's hand goes up
right to the spot where the ball's going to go.
She's like right after it's hit,her hand goes here and then she
dives and then like the ball just meets her hand.
But I'm like, how is it like theresponse time?
Out of This World had an unbelievable match and and it
started early for Berger. I mean, she's big game on Katrin
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Berger at this point. You know, you think about her
performances in the Olympics in 2024.
She is stamped certified on the very shortest of short lists of
best big game keepers in the world right now.
And that there's just no argument against it.
Her instincts there was the the shot late in extra time.
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Oh yeah, that was from Millard. And Millard's long range shot is
off the crossbar. But Burger's instincts are so
great that even in that high pressure moment, she knows she
has it covered and she knows exactly where the bar is.
And she lets it bounce off the bar and go out for a goal kick
instead of conceding a corner. She was just as locked in as a
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goalkeeper could possibly be. Insane.
Yeah. I mean add to that, it just
comes with stats here. 9 saves on the day?
How about 1.58 XG prevented likea goal and a half?
Just straight up prevented by Katzenberger's play.
She leads Germany and passes into the final third with 15.
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That's amazing she connected. On 17 and 51 long passes, she
has the save of the tournament on the Mingo own goal.
I mean, I was talking to you about this pre show.
I think that's the best save I've seen since we've been
covering this sport since 2023 that I could remember.
Maybe it could be an endosy win there at some point Maybe, but I
I can't remember a goal in that spot that again, you mentioned
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it when we were talking about pre show.
It's for their tournament life and she just has the save of the
tournament a like multiple epic celebrations during the penalty
kick. So you know, a couple after
getting stops, one after hers was just a little skippy dance.
And not to mention she buries a penalty kick in a very high
pressure moment and then she stops the penalty key that ends
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the match, ends France's run. A a big gamekeeper that I think
has had moments like this before.
This is not like, Oh my God, like, you know, this is a player
that we've seen. Berger had these moments, but to
string them all together in a match like this where Jeremy's
got to play 100 plus minutes down a player, I mean, unreal.
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Yeah. I mean, you think about the
performance she put in against Spain, which, you know, might be
in the back of her head right now, in that when they
eliminated Spain in the Olympics, I think she made AI
think she, I know for sure she stopped a penalty in that match.
I can't remember. There was another match where
she made a penalty as well. I mean, so it's pretty much her
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and Alyssa Nair as the keepers who will knock your penalties
away, swat them away like flies and then score themselves.
I mean, she's living in an extremely rarefied air right
now. Yeah, out of this world.
Couple more moments I wanted to mention.
I mean, Germany's defensive discipline I thought was great.
You know, 20 year old Francisca KET who he mentioned another
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player not quite making their debut, but close played super,
super well. You know, young player from
Bayern that obviously has a massive future.
It was great to see, you know, her just play really well on
this day. And then the other player I want
to mention you, LeBron, who was going at Selma Basha like the
entire day. And it it was so cool because
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like, I mean, Jeremy's intensitywas off the charts the entire
match. I mean, I think post post that
Hoffman moment when the whole thing turned like you could see
them like really be like, no, welike we're OK.
Like until we're not OK, we're OK.
Like we're in this match. We're going to stay in this
match. But I thought you LeBron, who
was extremely chippy when she was on defense and extremely
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chippy with Bosha, did such a smart thing like right around
the 58th minute where she looks like she's going to get into it
with Bosha in the box and then just hits the brakes.
And then Bosha runs right into her because I think she's
expecting a collision or some like entanglement and Basha runs
her over and she gets the penalty.
You know, a new skin that goes on to miss it.
But that moment from Braun, you know, really illuminated like
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what kind of game Germany was playing.
And it was very thoughtful. It was very strategic.
Like, I think they knew what they wanted to do.
And I, you know, I, I gave, you know, my guy Christian book a
lot of shit on the show, you know, and I thought again, I
thought he dropped the ball big time versus Sweden with that
line up. But I thought today you
mentioned it putting Leia Schuler on the bench for
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Hoffman. I thought the line up changes
that Verk made worked out reallywell.
And I thought they employed the right game, the right game plan,
and for sure the right game planafter the red card.
Yeah, I I would say the line up absolutely worked and terrible,
terrible low hanging fruit there.
But yeah, I mean, even, you know, he he moved Linder over to
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over to right back. And we had talked about that in
the preview after Vomser went out with the red card in the
last match. You know, Linder obviously gets
hurt, but he was moving the chess pieces.
He wasn't afraid to put Klein Hernan, who we had talked about
also as like an option there. So, yeah, I mean, the
adjustments were great. And France, you know, even with
all that stuff, like to be fair to France, they still had their
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chances. They had two goals ruled off for
offside, which both were correctcalls.
It felt like the real punch in the solar plexus, though, was
that one that the one that got ruled out after halftime was
like right around like the 55th or 56th where lacrosse is the
guilty party being offside because she like she forced
Berger to make a move on the rebound.
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And like, because she was in an offside position and she
impacted the play. Like even though she wasn't the
one who tapped it in, like it had to be ruled offside.
And I found myself in the regrettable position of saying,
good job referees, good job VAR,which I don't want to be in.
But you know what? At least they got they got it
right. But it just seemed like as those
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things continued to happen and to your point, as Germany
continued to just stand up and players like you, LeBron, were
making those like aggressive moves, challenging for the ball,
you know, mixing it up that you could feel the energy zapping
from France as the match went on.
And even as they they still tried to rely on some of that
great talent, you know, some of that great talent, they just
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didn't. They just didn't impact the
match in any real way, especially down the stretch.
Yeah, I totally agree. I think I didn't like France not
starting Sunday, Baltimore in this one.
And you know the if I have to hear another, well, I guess we
don't have to hear it now because they've been eliminated.
But I've had enough of the storyline of like, oh, well, OK,
we didn't invite Wendy Renar or,you know, Eugenie, Les Mayer or
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some of the older, the older 4 McKenzie Dali.
We could, we could have used maybe some Dali energy today
because we want to try somethingnew.
You know, things haven't worked and you know, we want to switch
it up and make a change, maybe use the make a change strategy
in the match as a as a as a as atactic going forward, because
they didn't do a single thing. They didn't really other than
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swap out players. Like and when they swap out
players, it was the same approach.
It was like, OK, you know, DN ESnot there.
Now Baltimore is just going to do the same thing.
The kind of DN ES was doing. Just poke and prod the defense,
see what you can get. I thought they really dropped
the ball not making Germany workmore.
You know, I mean, I think like Germany was tenacious for sure
defensively, but everything was like one or two passes.
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Let's let's get let's try to geta shot.
Let's try to let's try to be slick with something.
Let's try to get somebody back door and like put this game away
early. But then at at some point when
that doesn't work, we got to go,you know, and they had the
halftime break. They had the break after the 90.
They had to break in between, you know, but it just seemed
that the game was slipping further, further away.
They didn't have any answers. And then once you see it,
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there's no adjustments to go to.I mean, my, my prospects for
France actually advancing at that point very, very low.
Yeah, I I think judging by the notes that we have in our in our
episode doc here, it seems like you you picked up on it earlier
than I did. There was that moment in extra
time in the first extra time period where Karshawi has a back
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heel, right? Like meant for to go into the
path of Claire Mateo, but she just had like a little too much
on it. And I was like, OK, France could
still because they just have like this is the the hypnosis
that they get dopes like me under where I'm just like they
still got a lot of style in them.
They got a lot of class in theseplayers.
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They could still pull it out. But all the other, all the other
evidence looked like Germany waskind of grabbing a stranglehold
on the game. And you know, they still they
had to win in penalties 6 to 5. So, you know, it's not like they
got it's not like they got crushed.
But I can absolutely see your your point of view where it's
like you, you didn't see a way for France to get through kind
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of with the energy that they had.
I mean, if you can't, if if you're up one nil after 15 and
you're going 11 V 10 and you can't win in regulation, you're
not going to win it down the stretch.
I mean, mentally it, it's a weird thing.
You go from having like the absolute upper hand mentally
just being like, we got them to being like they've got us, you
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know? And then you, you hear the the
telecast be like, France has never beaten Germany in a
competitive term. I was like, how is that
possible? But yeah, that's the guy.
I guess, that we could see how it's possible because France
just, there's a thing about those German kits that kind of
get in their head, apparently. Yeah, that's it.
That's that's a tough one. Can we?
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Do you have a favorite penalty from the 11 that were taken or
how many? Were taken to I do 6011 were
made. There were 14 penalties taken I.
Definitely have a favorite, and it sounds like you have a
favorite, you have a. Favorite I do.
Do you want to go? 1st I'll go first, my favorite
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Linda Dahlman. OK.
Great comes in I think one well 100 and 1700 and I don't have it
off. She might have came in at 120.
Dude she came in way late. It it it was her endowments that
came on like super late. Comes in, I think she takes the
second one and yes, rocket just a it it goes from her foot to
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the top right corner and just itjust looked like it was
instantaneous. I mean, unbelievable to be able
to paint it that beautifully, just straight off the bench,
just, you know, but, you know, barely, barely broke into sweat.
I love it No, it's a great pick and it's it was it went in in a
similar way to the one that I thought was my favorite.
Clara Bool also upper 90 top right absolute smash.
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I can't even remember if PE Ruben guessed right, but she
didn't have a chance at it anyway.
And I also had the thought too, because Bull went sixth.
She went after Burger and when she because I was waiting for
her and, you know, Rebecca Kanaktakes the 3rd and I'm like, all
right, I I obviously like. So yeah, and and and clearly
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sent Barrow Manion the wrong way.
And you know, I'm just like waiting for for Bull.
And I was like, OK, she's going to go 6th.
Like, you know, you got some penalty takers when she comes in
and she absolutely hammered it up her 90.
I do want to go honorable mention Sandy Baltimore looked
like she had had burger super fooled on it and and went to the
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left. So honorable mention to to Sandy
Baltimore. Yeah, light lightning run up
from Baltimore. That 1 was great.
Kanak smacked it. That 1 was great.
And how about, you know, talk about German penalties, Acres,
Shuka, Nuskin. I think what 8th just crushed it
and clinched it. That was that was really
incredible. But it's got to be very
disappointing for for France anda lot of those French players
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that we we root for and appreciate for sure.
But you know, Germany mentally, they had it today.
It was their day. And despite pretty much where,
where all the winds were blowing, I mean, I cannot I
still can't believe that they got it done.
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here about
this one? I think that's it.
I do want to offer my condolences.
I mean, you obviously know and we agree on this.
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This is a very much a pro Amel Madhuri program.
The penalty that she took when she stepped up first, I was
like, yes, of course it's Madhuri.
She's going to take the first one.
Her run up the way she was trying to set the ball on the
spot. Everything had me very confused
and I was just like, Amel, what are we doing here?
Why, Why are we acting like this?
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And then like she goes like way from the right and burger just
stones it had it read the whole way. 0 out of 10 did not enjoy
that, especially for Majri, one of my favorite players to watch.
So it's a bummer for her, but you know, she'll she'll come
back and and be great for Lyon. Again, no, Absolutely.
Yeah, I love him and Majri. Yeah, weird penalty geek.
But I will say, if you know, General Wosso, General Wosso
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folks, if your analysis about the EUR starts and ends with the
penalty kicks, that's just lame.That's lame.
Like, that's really lame to me. Like, you know, when you were
taking, when you were talking about penalty kicks, you're
like, oh, they won 65. It was close for me.
Penalty kicks. It might as well just be playing
darts or guessing how many marbles are in a fishbowl.
And like, that's how we decide to meet.
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It doesn't really matter. It's just the game has
ultimately gone to a coin flip. You know, to me, they're like
free throws in basketball. You miss a free throw, you don't
like, lose our minds. When people miss free throw,
they miss free throws, you know.So I think to me it really does
discount the level of football we've seen.
The level of skill that we've seen, the competition that we've
seen, you know, like what we sawtoday, Germany back against
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their wall, you know, back against the wall, I thought zero
chance. I thought they had zero chance,
especially against this France side that handled England, You
know, so I was like, if that if that side shows up, it's over,
then they go to 10. And I mean, but just, it just
goes to show you that this sporthas so much to it, so much
depth, so many surprises. So, so to me to just to reduce
it to all these players missed penalties and look how silly
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that's, that's super lame to me.I totally agree.
I mean, you know, obviously, yeah, the the terrible
performance between England and Sweden and penalty kicks.
How about the rest of the game? It was super compelling and
interesting and England marched back, you know, and had a great
comeback. And then each team scored two
goals. So yeah, I think just focusing
on the penalty kicks is probablya little a little myopic.
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But how German is it that they're the team?
It's like, Nope, we very clearlydo practice our penalty kicks
and we execute them extremely well.
So, you know, I always use the old saying, I think it's Gary
Lineker who said it. Football is a simple game. 22
players chase a ball around a field for 90 minutes and in the
end, Germany wins. Yep, well said.
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Yeah, today was 120 plus something minutes, but same
result. What are you going to do?
And yeah and apologies, you knowto to everyone rocking with us.
We weren't able to drop into thefeeds with some post Spain post
Switzerland feedback, but you know, Spain gets it done to know
when they'll take on this perhaps team of destiny, this
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German side. We'll see.
But not to worry keep rocking with us.
We've got a semi final preview coming your way right after this
video might take a little littleminute to hit your feed, but
definitely hang out with us. We'll have a ton of Spain takes
as well as our thoughts on the other semi final match up, Italy
versus England. It looks like Dino might nail
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another prediction. What a shocker.
Who? Who had that one all?
Right man, You in fact. Had that one too.
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England, about Sweden, about that last match.
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OK, welcome to into the channel podcast Premier about 1 so far.
I'm your host Dino de Suspiciousand as always, I am joined by my
Co host Mr. Grant Angle. What is up man?
I'm feeling all right, buddy. I feel like I watched a crazy
back and forth, almost like a tennis match, just watching the
ball go back and forth and just watching.
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Maybe a car careening all acrossseveral highway lanes, perhaps
on the autobahn even. I don't know.
But that was a wild, wild match today.
I kind of equated it to, and I'mgoing to talk about France's
offense here. You know, in the action movie
where the the villain is just sending a bunch of goons at like
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the hero and then it's just one at a time.
They just go, they just go get obliterated one at a time.
That was like France's offensiveattack today.
It was just right, like Khashoggi's like, I got this.
He was like, no, I got this. Like Diani's like, no, on my
turn. It's just like they just kept
getting like sent, sent away. And, you know, by the end of the
movie, it's over and you're justlike, oh, wow.
I despite all of our all of the hints along the way, Yeah, it
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went the other way. Yeah, I think that's a that's a
pretty good analogy, my good man.
It was. And this one not even like a
traditional movie. You didn't think the under?
I had no point. Well, it eventually got to the
point, but I didn't think the underdog was going to win in
this situation. And it's weird calling Germany
an underdog, but once you get that red card in the 13th
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minute, there had to be no way that they were going to win.
Already down, great defenders, you know, Julia Givens sitting
there on the sideline. I just it's hard to even wrap
your head around how they did it.
I'm not gonna ask you where we're gonna get started.
We're gonna get started with a little bit of France, Germany
talk. But how about we also quench the
palate a little bit? You know, I'm sure much like
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much like myself, he probably worked up a sweat today watching
these matches, trying to assemble these takes, trying to
put get a show together, trying to get a semi final preview
together. We'll talk about that one later.
So I don't know, let's let's crack a couple beverages just to
make sure that we stay hydrated.I think that's a good idea, my
good man. And we might as well also say,
there we go, that sounds good. And obviously everybody knows
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what we're here to talk about. France won.
Germany won. Germany advances 65-ON penalties
in a wild one. Unbelievable.
Unbelievable. You mentioned the red card
early. It was crazy because Germany
gets off to like a really rocky start.
Obviously the red card is tough,but that wasn't the only moment.
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You know, obviously Katherine Enrich has a total, a total
mental meltdown there and you know, just grabs a handful of
hair, has no bearing on the actual play, gets the red card.
They fall behind. And I think the most interesting
part for me was what happened inthe next 5 minutes.
So obviously Henrich is off. Galloro puts in the penalty
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kick, then Stry Linder kind of comes up a little lame.
She's got an injury. Like I don't know who knows the
severity, but she didn't really look like she wanted to play.
And then Christian Verk gets a ayellow card and this is all
within like 20 minutes. And it's like at this point I'm
like, this is like full Germany meltdown at this point.
You're down one nil, you're downa player.
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It's 15 minutes in, manager's got a yellow card.
Another defender. We talked about the German
defense, kind of like how Swiss cheesy it was.
They're now done another player and I think the turning point.
I'd be interested to hear if youkind of picked them on any first
half turning points. But for me, there was a turning
point when another debutante, Giovanna Hoffman, it just makes
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a run one on everybody. And then like, you know, I think
I think she got a corner out of it, if I'm not mistaken.
And that actually might have been the corner that ends up
being the new sing goal. But I think I think that, yeah,
I'm I'm pretty sure that's right.
It was a Hoffman run that leads to the the corner that becomes a
new sing goal. But I thought that run went
against everything that was happening momentum wise for
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Germany up to that point and then obviously leads to the
corner. Here are my notes.
I want to talk about Giovanna Hoffman.
Here are my notes from when the line when the lineups are
announced. And you know, I'm sitting there,
I, I see, I take a look, I see no Leia Schuler and I see
Hoffman there at the number 9. And in my notes I write Giovanna
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Hoffman is the #9 for Germany 25year old who scored eleven goals
and had five assists for Leipziglast season and found
Bundesliga. And then, you know, you hear in
the pregame this will be her first competitive start for
Germany. And I was like, OK, Mr. Verk,
that's a bold decision, but I think you're totally right.
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Like after the penalty and just the, you know, the lender
injury, she makes that run and she had to muscle to get the
ball downfield like that. And I was like, OK.
And I think one thing about our show, we don't pretend like
we're going to be experts in every single league.
I'm not familiar with Hoffman's game at this point.
Believe it or not, it wasn't locked into Leipzig last season.
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Like we didn't see, you know, we'll, we'll watch like, you
know, some of the Wolfsburg games of the Frankfurt games.
Obviously Byron through the course of this is a Champions
League show for anybody who's kind of joined us, like the
genesis of of our program. So I didn't watch a lot of
Leipzig. So I don't know.
I don't really know anything at all about about Hoffman, and I
thought she was impressive not just in that spot but in other
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spots throughout the match. Yep, didn't know about her
coming in, know about her now. Killer work rate.
You know, I thought it wasn't just her, but I thought that
moment, that moment, you know, based on where the vibes were
heading, I thought really, really changed the game.
And then, you know, I was reallyexcited to see Chicaduska and
the the player that I I mentioned as a player to watch
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kind of get that header. And then I also have to call out
she had this is so stupid, but she had the one like warrior
braid, like that one Game of Thrones wildling braid in her
hair that just looked like, I don't know it it it turns a
regular looking person into somewhat of a wild card,
especially in a match like this.And I don't know, she just
looked like such a badass with that one single warrior braid.
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I was I was I was kind of way, way behind that look.
But new skin obviously gets the header.
I mean, the precision on that was amazing.
And then to rewind a little bit and Ketchenberger had herself an
unbelievable game. And for me, it actually started
on the Gayoro penalty kick, the first goal of the match, where
if you go back and rewatch it, actually go back and rewatch it
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and look how fast and Ketchenberger's hand goes up
right to the spot where the ball's going to go.
She's like right after it's hit,her hand goes here and then she
dives and then like the ball just meets her hand.
But I'm like, how is it like theresponse time?
Out of This World had an unbelievable match and and it
started early for Berger. I mean, she's big game on Katrin
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Berger at this point. You know, you think about her
performances in the Olympics in 2024.
She is stamped certified on the very shortest of short lists of
best big game keepers in the world right now.
And that there's just no argument against it.
Her instincts there was the the shot late in extra time.
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Oh yeah, that was from Millard. And Millard's long range shot is
off the crossbar. But Burger's instincts are so
great that even in that high pressure moment, she knows she
has it covered and she knows exactly where the bar is.
And she lets it bounce off the bar and go out for a goal kick
instead of conceding a corner. She was just as locked in as a
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goalkeeper could possibly be. Insane.
Yeah. I mean add to that, it just
comes with stats here. 9 saves on the day?
How about 1.58 XG prevented likea goal and a half?
Just straight up prevented by Katzenberger's play.
She leads Germany and passes into the final third with 15.
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That's amazing she connected. On 17 and 51 long passes, she
has the save of the tournament on the Mingo own goal.
I mean, I was talking to you about this pre show.
I think that's the best save I've seen since we've been
covering this sport since 2023 that I could remember.
Maybe it could be an endosy win there at some point Maybe, but I
I can't remember a goal in that spot that again, you mentioned
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it when we were talking about pre show.
It's for their tournament life and she just has the save of the
tournament a like multiple epic celebrations during the penalty
kick. So you know, a couple after
getting stops, one after hers was just a little skippy dance.
And not to mention she buries a penalty kick in a very high
pressure moment and then she stops the penalty key that ends
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the match, ends France's run. A a big gamekeeper that I think
has had moments like this before.
This is not like, Oh my God, like, you know, this is a player
that we've seen. Berger had these moments, but to
string them all together in a match like this where Jeremy's
got to play 100 plus minutes down a player, I mean, unreal.
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Yeah. I mean, you think about the
performance she put in against Spain, which, you know, might be
in the back of her head right now, in that when they
eliminated Spain in the Olympics, I think she made AI
think she, I know for sure she stopped a penalty in that match.
I can't remember. There was another match where
she made a penalty as well. I mean, so it's pretty much her
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and Alyssa Nair as the keepers who will knock your penalties
away, swat them away like flies and then score themselves.
I mean, she's living in an extremely rarefied air right
now. Yeah, out of this world.
Couple more moments I wanted to mention.
I mean, Germany's defensive discipline I thought was great.
You know, 20 year old Francisca KET who he mentioned another
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player not quite making their debut, but close played super,
super well. You know, young player from
Bayern that obviously has a massive future.
It was great to see, you know, her just play really well on
this day. And then the other player I want
to mention you, LeBron, who was going at Selma Basha like the
entire day. And it it was so cool because
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like, I mean, Jeremy's intensitywas off the charts the entire
match. I mean, I think post post that
Hoffman moment when the whole thing turned like you could see
them like really be like, no, welike we're OK.
Like until we're not OK, we're OK.
Like we're in this match. We're going to stay in this
match. But I thought you LeBron, who
was extremely chippy when she was on defense and extremely
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chippy with Bosha, did such a smart thing like right around
the 58th minute where she looks like she's going to get into it
with Bosha in the box and then just hits the brakes.
And then Bosha runs right into her because I think she's
expecting a collision or some like entanglement and Basha runs
her over and she gets the penalty.
You know, a new skin that goes on to miss it.
But that moment from Braun, you know, really illuminated like
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what kind of game Germany was playing.
And it was very thoughtful. It was very strategic.
Like, I think they knew what they wanted to do.
And I, you know, I, I gave, you know, my guy Christian book a
lot of shit on the show, you know, and I thought again, I
thought he dropped the ball big time versus Sweden with that
line up. But I thought today you
mentioned it putting Leia Schuler on the bench for
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Hoffman. I thought the line up changes
that Verk made worked out reallywell.
And I thought they employed the right game, the right game plan,
and for sure the right game planafter the red card.
Yeah, I I would say the line up absolutely worked and terrible,
terrible low hanging fruit there.
But yeah, I mean, even, you know, he he moved Linder over to
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over to right back. And we had talked about that in
the preview after Vomser went out with the red card in the
last match. You know, Linder obviously gets
hurt, but he was moving the chess pieces.
He wasn't afraid to put Klein Hernan, who we had talked about
also as like an option there. So, yeah, I mean, the
adjustments were great. And France, you know, even with
all that stuff, like to be fair to France, they still had their
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chances. They had two goals ruled off for
offside, which both were correctcalls.
It felt like the real punch in the solar plexus, though, was
that one that the one that got ruled out after halftime was
like right around like the 55th or 56th where lacrosse is the
guilty party being offside because she like she forced
Berger to make a move on the rebound.
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And like, because she was in an offside position and she
impacted the play. Like even though she wasn't the
one who tapped it in, like it had to be ruled offside.
And I found myself in the regrettable position of saying,
good job referees, good job VAR,which I don't want to be in.
But you know what? At least they got they got it
right. But it just seemed like as those
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things continued to happen and to your point, as Germany
continued to just stand up and players like you, LeBron, were
making those like aggressive moves, challenging for the ball,
you know, mixing it up that you could feel the energy zapping
from France as the match went on.
And even as they they still tried to rely on some of that
great talent, you know, some of that great talent, they just
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didn't. They just didn't impact the
match in any real way, especially down the stretch.
Yeah, I totally agree. I think I didn't like France not
starting Sunday, Baltimore in this one.
And you know the if I have to hear another, well, I guess we
don't have to hear it now because they've been eliminated.
But I've had enough of the storyline of like, oh, well, OK,
we didn't invite Wendy Renar or,you know, Eugenie, Les Mayer or
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some of the older, the older 4 McKenzie Dali.
We could, we could have used maybe some Dali energy today
because we want to try somethingnew.
You know, things haven't worked and you know, we want to switch
it up and make a change, maybe use the make a change strategy
in the match as a as a as a as atactic going forward, because
they didn't do a single thing. They didn't really other than
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swap out players. Like and when they swap out
players, it was the same approach.
It was like, OK, you know, DN ESnot there.
Now Baltimore is just going to do the same thing.
The kind of DN ES was doing. Just poke and prod the defense,
see what you can get. I thought they really dropped
the ball not making Germany workmore.
You know, I mean, I think like Germany was tenacious for sure
defensively, but everything was like one or two passes.
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Let's let's get let's try to geta shot.
Let's try to let's try to be slick with something.
Let's try to get somebody back door and like put this game away
early. But then at at some point when
that doesn't work, we got to go,you know, and they had the
halftime break. They had the break after the 90.
They had to break in between, you know, but it just seemed
that the game was slipping further, further away.
They didn't have any answers. And then once you see it,
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there's no adjustments to go to.I mean, my, my prospects for
France actually advancing at that point very, very low.
Yeah, I I think judging by the notes that we have in our in our
episode doc here, it seems like you you picked up on it earlier
than I did. There was that moment in extra
time in the first extra time period where Karshawi has a back
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heel, right? Like meant for to go into the
path of Claire Mateo, but she just had like a little too much
on it. And I was like, OK, France could
still because they just have like this is the the hypnosis
that they get dopes like me under where I'm just like they
still got a lot of style in them.
They got a lot of class in theseplayers.
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They could still pull it out. But all the other, all the other
evidence looked like Germany waskind of grabbing a stranglehold
on the game. And you know, they still they
had to win in penalties 6 to 5. So, you know, it's not like they
got it's not like they got crushed.
But I can absolutely see your your point of view where it's
like you, you didn't see a way for France to get through kind
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of with the energy that they had.
I mean, if you can't, if if you're up one nil after 15 and
you're going 11 V 10 and you can't win in regulation, you're
not going to win it down the stretch.
I mean, mentally it, it's a weird thing.
You go from having like the absolute upper hand mentally
just being like, we got them to being like they've got us, you
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know? And then you, you hear the the
telecast be like, France has never beaten Germany in a
competitive term. I was like, how is that
possible? But yeah, that's the guy.
I guess, that we could see how it's possible because France
just, there's a thing about those German kits that kind of
get in their head, apparently. Yeah, that's it.
That's that's a tough one. Can we?
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Do you have a favorite penalty from the 11 that were taken or
how many? Were taken to I do 6011 were
made. There were 14 penalties taken I.
Definitely have a favorite, and it sounds like you have a
favorite, you have a. Favorite I do.
Do you want to go? 1st I'll go first, my favorite
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Linda Dahlman. OK.
Great comes in I think one well 100 and 1700 and I don't have it
off. She might have came in at 120.
Dude she came in way late. It it it was her endowments that
came on like super late. Comes in, I think she takes the
second one and yes, rocket just a it it goes from her foot to
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the top right corner and just itjust looked like it was
instantaneous. I mean, unbelievable to be able
to paint it that beautifully, just straight off the bench,
just, you know, but, you know, barely, barely broke into sweat.
I love it No, it's a great pick and it's it was it went in in a
similar way to the one that I thought was my favorite.
Clara Bool also upper 90 top right absolute smash.
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I can't even remember if PE Ruben guessed right, but she
didn't have a chance at it anyway.
And I also had the thought too, because Bull went sixth.
She went after Burger and when she because I was waiting for
her and, you know, Rebecca Kanaktakes the 3rd and I'm like, all
right, I I obviously like. So yeah, and and and clearly
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sent Barrow Manion the wrong way.
And you know, I'm just like waiting for for Bull.
And I was like, OK, she's going to go 6th.
Like, you know, you got some penalty takers when she comes in
and she absolutely hammered it up her 90.
I do want to go honorable mention Sandy Baltimore looked
like she had had burger super fooled on it and and went to the
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left. So honorable mention to to Sandy
Baltimore. Yeah, light lightning run up
from Baltimore. That 1 was great.
Kanak smacked it. That 1 was great.
And how about, you know, talk about German penalties, Acres,
Shuka, Nuskin. I think what 8th just crushed it
and clinched it. That was that was really
incredible. But it's got to be very
disappointing for for France anda lot of those French players
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that we we root for and appreciate for sure.
But you know, Germany mentally, they had it today.
It was their day. And despite pretty much where,
where all the winds were blowing, I mean, I cannot I
still can't believe that they got it done.
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here about
this one? I think that's it.
I do want to offer my condolences.
I mean, you obviously know and we agree on this.
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This is a very much a pro Amel Madhuri program.
The penalty that she took when she stepped up first, I was
like, yes, of course it's Madhuri.
She's going to take the first one.
Her run up the way she was trying to set the ball on the
spot. Everything had me very confused
and I was just like, Amel, what are we doing here?
Why, Why are we acting like this?
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And then like she goes like way from the right and burger just
stones it had it read the whole way. 0 out of 10 did not enjoy
that, especially for Majri, one of my favorite players to watch.
So it's a bummer for her, but you know, she'll she'll come
back and and be great for Lyon. Again, no, Absolutely.
Yeah, I love him and Majri. Yeah, weird penalty geek.
But I will say, if you know, General Wosso, General Wosso
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folks, if your analysis about the EUR starts and ends with the
penalty kicks, that's just lame.That's lame.
Like, that's really lame to me. Like, you know, when you were
taking, when you were talking about penalty kicks, you're
like, oh, they won 65. It was close for me.
Penalty kicks. It might as well just be playing
darts or guessing how many marbles are in a fishbowl.
And like, that's how we decide to meet.
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It doesn't really matter. It's just the game has
ultimately gone to a coin flip. You know, to me, they're like
free throws in basketball. You miss a free throw, you don't
like, lose our minds. When people miss free throw,
they miss free throws, you know.So I think to me it really does
discount the level of football we've seen.
The level of skill that we've seen, the competition that we've
seen, you know, like what we sawtoday, Germany back against
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their wall, you know, back against the wall, I thought zero
chance. I thought they had zero chance,
especially against this France side that handled England, You
know, so I was like, if that if that side shows up, it's over,
then they go to 10. And I mean, but just, it just
goes to show you that this sporthas so much to it, so much
depth, so many surprises. So, so to me to just to reduce
it to all these players missed penalties and look how silly
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that's, that's super lame to me.I totally agree.
I mean, you know, obviously, yeah, the the terrible
performance between England and Sweden and penalty kicks.
How about the rest of the game? It was super compelling and
interesting and England marched back, you know, and had a great
comeback. And then each team scored two
goals. So yeah, I think just focusing
on the penalty kicks is probablya little a little myopic.
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But how German is it that they're the team?
It's like, Nope, we very clearlydo practice our penalty kicks
and we execute them extremely well.
So, you know, I always use the old saying, I think it's Gary
Lineker who said it. Football is a simple game. 22
players chase a ball around a field for 90 minutes and in the
end, Germany wins. Yep, well said.
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Yeah, today was 120 plus something minutes, but same
result. What are you going to do?
And yeah and apologies, you knowto to everyone rocking with us.
We weren't able to drop into thefeeds with some post Spain post
Switzerland feedback, but you know, Spain gets it done to know
when they'll take on this perhaps team of destiny, this
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German side. We'll see.
But not to worry keep rocking with us.
We've got a semi final preview coming your way right after this
video might take a little littleminute to hit your feed, but
definitely hang out with us. We'll have a ton of Spain takes
as well as our thoughts on the other semi final match up, Italy
versus England. It looks like Dino might nail
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another prediction. What a shocker.
Who? Who had that one all?
Right man, You in fact. Had that one too.
All right, man, this has been another episode to the channel.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for hanging out.
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is. I appreciate you bro.
Likewise, buddy, nobody I'd rather do it with.
And thank you to everybody who'sdropping knowledge in the
comments, per usual. Had some spicy takes about
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England, about Sweden, about that last match.
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