Casual FC

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
the timestamps.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: 55.

Yeah.

It was the own goal.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
is in the second half.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: that's why I said
at the half we were tied, or not, Ty.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
didn't say that.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yes, I did.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
didn't.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I said we
were tied and then I corrected myself.

'cause I was like, didn't
we have a ton of extra time?

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Oh yeah, because, Kouassi

busted, her head open.

It kept busting.

Open again.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
That's the Chaos Award.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Oh, right.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Welcome to
the Post Rapture episode of Casual FC

in Angel City Match preview and footy
therapy Pod featuring two non Raptured

podcast footy certified footy therapist.

I'm your host Mario Salazar
with my co-host Angela Morales.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
yeah, we're still here

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: We're still here.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Okay.

But this is Tuesday.

I did hear it could happen tomorrow
on Wednesday or on Thursday.

So we've moved to the Rapture goalpost.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Okay.

I did not.

this is update to me.

This is news.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: So
if you have not been sucked up into the

sky yet, maybe you still have a chance.

I know I don't.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: If you don't get.

Sucked up, then we'll be able to
watch the match, which it happens on

Saturday, November 27th versus, racing
Louisville at, Lynn Family Stadium.

because it's over there, it's
gonna be at four 30 for us.

It's gonna be on I on tv, it iHeartRadio.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
in the double header.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

and there is no watch party information,
so I'm not even gonna talk about it.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
At least not yet.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Probably
by the time this goes out,

there will be a post about,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
usual, we'll post it.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: they've
been getting pretty late

about their watch parties.

They've been like posting
them like almost day of,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
I know.

They're like, oh hey.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: we forgot to
tell everybody about the watch party.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: know.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
we have our, there's the.

The tried and true ones right now,
where it's like untamed spirits,

and Watch Me Sports Bar, for a
fact they will be showing the game.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
33taps usually has the game on.

They're like, all their locations
are usually really good about showing

women's sports, which is dope.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

So find your place four 30.

it's a good early game.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Still have
the night ahead of you on a Saturday,

depending on how it turns out.

You might be in a good mood.

You might be in a bad mood.

I don't know.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
I will be at home.

Oh no I won't actually.

Eva has a gig on Saturday,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Oh, okay.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
free on Saturday on the east

side near Pasadena, DM me and
I'll get you info for the gig.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Oh,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
$5 at the door.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: well there you.

There you go.

It might either keep the good,
the high going, or it might

bring your spirits up after

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
absolutely.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: So either way,
you will end the night on a good note.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
exactly.

so this week I don't
really have a Chaos award.

Maybe the rapture, maybe not, who knows.

this weekend soccer was just there.

I watched the majority of games even.

I were just like at home cleaning
and like trying to reset our

lives, which barely hap it.

It, we got some stuff done.

But everything has been so hard lately.

but

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: It.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
games were played Houston

beat, Chicago won nothing.

Carolina beat, Orlando won nothing.

Utah upset Louisville three to two.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Thank you.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
was also bonkers.

Utah just was scoring.

then Louisville said, oh yeah, me too.

And then Utah was like, nah, no.

Kansas City, Peru, two.

Nothing against Seattle,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Portland and San Diego.

Drew at one.

So did Bay and Gotham.

So like the games were
just like, okay, like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
then dun.

We played the first game of the

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: The first game.

The first game.

So it wasn't, and then

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: it was us first.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Big shout out to everybody who.

Saw me, gave me a hug.

This year has been like the
weirdest year of bad news.

So Thursday was another weird
day of getting really weird news.

During the day, I texted, friends that
used to sit in our section, but moved

downstairs and, I texted them like,
Hey, you guys gonna come to the game?

They're like, I don't
think we're gonna make it.

Like they have some last
minute stuff come up.

And then next thing I know,
they're in our section.

They're like, you said you were
having a bad day and you needed a hug.

And I was like, on the verge of tears.

I'm like, don't do it.

but yeah, it, Thursday
was a very difficult day.

I fully appreciate everybody who
showed up, who gave me a hug,

who came to make sure I was okay.

yeah, I love this community.

We're a silly bunch of weirdos
and I'm so grateful for everyone.

Yeah,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: It is a good
bunch of people, everybody that we've met.

Yeah.

So we had,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: it.

So there

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: okay,
you don't have to, we had a match

against the Washington spirit,
number two, Washington spirit.

we ended up drawing two to two.

There was a interesting back and forth.

In the beginning.

There was a pk, which had a damn good.

Save by Angela.

There was just a Angelina.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: me.

I'm not,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yes.

not you.

by, Angelina.

Had a great save.

It's just unfortunate that it was, there
was a rebound and the game, the ball's

still in play, so the, nobody else
was able, was really gonna get to it.

at that point, Trin's just too fast.

And so she got there.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
the box.

I have questions about this rule, and
maybe because I have not been a lifelong

soccer fan, I hate it the way I see it
is that it's like a technical foul in

basketball or like a penalty, something
where like clock, the game is stopped.

Obviously the clock in soccer
doesn't stop, but like the

game itself has stopped.

Why is it considered active play?

it doesn't make sense to me.

Just stop it and like goal
kick to restart the game.

I don't like it.

And it's not just because of this
pk, it's in general I don't like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
it doesn't make sense to me.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: it's,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
pks only solo shots in a shootout,

but not when there's like a foul?

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: two
questions or two follow up things.

one, isn't that the same
role in a free throw?

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: A

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Like when

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
a technical foul free throw.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Okay.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
'cause

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
I didn't know that.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
if on the second or the, if it's a,

two shots or if it's like one, like
a one in one situation, like on

that second shot, if you miss it.

'cause it's in the game of,
it's in the run of play.

if there's a technical foul.

And the game stops, which is essentially
what happens with a foul like this.

Then the free throws are given.

Nobody's in the box.

Nobody crashes.

The board's like the game has stopped.

You make the shot and
then you restart the game.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Oh, is that when
the person's like by themselves on the

key and everybody has to stand back.

Okay.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
That's

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I never
really knew, I never really knew

the difference between that.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: foul.

So essentially like this.

Where you're, you get an extra shot
at a point, but I don't get why I'm

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
400 year old reason because it's soccer.

not gonna look it up.

It just makes me mad.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: and I'm
not gonna look it up either.

So my gut feeling of all of this is
that, It's perfectly fine the way it is.

it, I see it as the normal free throw
where everybody's standing around the

key and then like soon as the ball
rebounds, like you're allowed to grab it.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
like a corner for me.

That's how, no, that's how I see it.

Like a

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah, no.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
A free kick is a free throw.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

Yeah.

'cause like it doesn't have
to be an egregious fell.

It could just be a witch.

Was a very light foul in this thing.

Like it was, come on.

That was like bare.

that was like a, that was like
a pastel yellow, like that

wasn't a true yellow, come on.

yeah,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
summer yellow.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: no,
not sunflower yellow here.

We're talking like baby yellows.

Yeah, it was a very light foul.

ultimately a foul is a foul and
it's within the box and it's

the box is like the safety zone.

I think someone, one of the commentators
was like one, they were saying

like, that's a really light foul.

really?

Come on.

You like, you don't want to call it,
but you can see the argument why.

and two, as a defender, like you
should know better that within the

box you do not leave your feet.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: You leave
your feet, you're automatically

being called, as a foul.

And that's what happened
is, Miyabi just lunged and

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
when I

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: got some air.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: to.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Exactly.

so it is what it is.

And then I do see the kind of like
difference between a shootout,

and this 'cause in a shootout.

What you're talking about.

Everybody's standing back.

it's a one-on-one competition.

and it's like the same
thing in a hockey, right?

It's like the one-on-one shootout
like you're running through.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: D.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

and then, but in this, it's everybody's.

Everybody's standing
online, equal, distant.

That's why you have the little, like half
circle at the top is to keep them all

equal distant away from the penalty spot.

so everybody technically
has the same chance once

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: With

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: it bounces back.

yeah, but either way, that was
the first goal from Rodman.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yes.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: but we
were able to equalize pretty

quickly right after that.

Like that.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
It was so

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: a good goal.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
It was so good.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: so the
game was one, one at that point.

now from my memory, there
was a lot of extra time.

So I know there's, I know
there's the own goal here at 55.

I don't know if that was 55 from the
first half, or do they count that, or

do they count that as still at 45 plus?

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: plus.

Yeah.

So in the

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Okay.

Okay.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Kouassi busted her head open, was down

for a good 10 minutes kind of thing,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
So that's the Chaos Award.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
that's

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: That's the case.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
because it's not even that that happened.

They, they sealed her up.

She was okay.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

She got the Sarah Gorden.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: She

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: She got,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Gorden slash Maddie Curry slash

vonda don, but she didn't quite
act, she needed the swim cap.

They didn't give her a swim cap.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
they didn't give it.

Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
the thing is she kept, the bandage kept

moving or she kept going after like
crazy headers, the whole damn game.

They didn't sub her out
until a 70 some minute.

And I'm like, girl,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: She,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
not have

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: it's like
she forgot she had a head injury.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
No, no joke because then they'd

have to stop the game 'cause there
was blood and it was like, oh

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
five minutes.

Getting her cleaned up.

Like it was just a lot.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: There was 13
extra minutes I believe in the first half.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
was pretty much for her being treated

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
it was, and like the teams

are out there like warming up.

'cause like they all knew she was okay,
but as somebody who has experienced

a head injury to this extent.

Internal and external stitches.

Okay.

I don't think you should be

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: How the
hell do you get internal stitches?

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
when I do something, I do it well.

I say that I don't half-ass anything.

I whole ass or no ass and I whole ass it.

You can see it.

I have a Harry Potter scar.

he who shall not be named,
but the good thing was the ER

surgeon was a plastic surgeon,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Skills.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
lucky.

Otherwise, I would've Been had
cross stitch up my forehead.

But yeah, he bless that man.

I pissed him off.

I was little when I did it too.

So like I didn't understand a lot of it.

I had four times the amount of numbing
agent in my forehead that adults get.

He's there's, I don't understand
how she can feel this.

mom's Angela, chill the F out, dude.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Oh, no, I,
as someone who just recently went

through some stuff, the doctor
was like, you're gonna be numb.

It's gonna be okay.

And I'm like, I'm not fucking numb.

I can feel that right now.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
they don't explain to you that you're

not gonna feel the pain, but you're
gonna feel the pressure and you're

gonna feel like somebody moving
your little forehead skin around.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Sorry
for everybody who's listening

or who's squeamish about that.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: mad.

I'm trying to be so like diplomatic
and like high level with it, but

like when you're getting stitches,
when you're getting anything really

done, they, it's local anesthesia.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
You don't feel the pain.

You feel like the pressure
of somebody just like poking.

But when you're like little, or if

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Oh yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
if you don't know that from multiple

experiences like I do, it's.

Awful and it's terrifying
'cause your adrenaline is going

through your body like crazy.

But I don't under, and that adrenaline
is honestly probably why Kouassi

was able to stay in the game.

Because if I bust my head open, way
in actual hell rapture or no rapture.

Am I keeping my ass on the pitch?

I'm like, please no this just throbbing.

I just imagined the like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: wmp.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: the
commentators were saying like, how

crazy and but also how, strong she
was to keep playing through that.

And I'm like, yeah, she,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
we should congratulate that though.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I was like, no.

okay, after the first
incident, she gets wrapped up.

It's happened to other players before.

go, do your thing, be
the rock for your team.

By the second time that it's starting
to bleed down your face and you

have to change your jersey, you
are, you had to get a different

kit with a totally different number

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
And blank

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: because
with a blank name, it was just,

it was number 40 or something
like that, and it had no name.

because you bled too much
on your kit and then.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
that's not worth it.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: like at
that point, eh, it is time to sub up

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: first
initial time and then two more times.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: the, and then
the last one she went for a header

that an Angel City player missed.

It, like went over their head,
but she was up there too.

So it got her, but it got her square
in the face, like in the nose.

And so now there was like,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Extra.

Just, it was like, girl,
your face is getting beat up.

go.

Just go sit down.

It's not worth it, but

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: all of
that happened, but then, yeah,

that was the craziness of the
half and all the extra time.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

And that own goal, Tiernan has every right
to be pissed off because it was like an

uncle because somebody breathed on it.

Like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
that was just a banger that.

Barely deflected off another player.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

That I don't, yeah, that
shouldn't have been called the

own goal, but it was an own goal.

so we were winning two to one
and then in the 71st minute

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Cry

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
K Bethune and, scored.

okay, let me explain.

I'm the one that usually
does the social stuff.

Half the time, towards the end of
the game, I'm watching the game,

but I'm also preoccupied thinking
like I need to make a post.

I need to think of a prompt.

I can't pre-think of a prompt
'cause then there'll be generic.

I wanted to do, I always try
to do something that's relevant

at the moment.

When it happened and we tied, I
wrote the tie feels like a loss.

Then everybody's comments were like,
nah, that didn't feel like a loss to me.

And I was like, yes, I know, I agree
with you, but right now I'm in my feels

and it felt like a loss at this moment.

So yes, I don't,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
and came back down to Earth

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I
don't think that it was a loss.

It was a very well played,
very hard fought match.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
against the second place

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Against the second
place team and we saw things with Angel

City that we haven't seen in a long time.

If ever, like we, we have this
kind of eight, like 75, 80 minute

curse like anytime we get there,
like we somehow get injured.

We somehow we're just completely gassed.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: We

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: We

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
a goal.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: give
up a goal which happened.

And so like we all have that
trauma of oh God, there was

another one that's gonna come.

We're gonna give up another goal.

We're gonna lose this.

So that's where I was coming from
because we, I felt like we were

doing so well the entire game.

And then we hit that curse
and then we get tied up again.

Rodman Buffoon second place team like

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
and honestly, any other season,

this is the first place team.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Oh yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
And that's the thing.

It's like said we weren't cooked,
and I was like, that's exactly it.

N first half of the season
we would've been like.

Not even first half the season,
shit I don't know, the last

three years we've been cooked.

think for the most part,
Cassandra said in the Discord, I

can continue to see the vision.

Like you can see where things are
starting to click and where they're

working and all that kind of stuff.

And for like our back line being,
and I'm gonna talk about this a

little bit later, like Sarah Gorden
has been the only consistent player

on the back line this season.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Injuries at

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
else has been shifted.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
All, everything is everywhere.

So there hasn't been a lot of
consistency in the way we were hoping

to see, but that's not on purpose.

I'm sure Megan Reid would be
like, loving being on the pitch

right now and not in a boot.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah, I.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
and they're itchy I'm sure people

don't wanna be injured, duh.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
but the fact that we pulled

out a draw, almost a win.

Against the second place team on a
team where we were out coached in the

first half of the season says a lot
to me and that's why I was like, Uhuh,

this feels like a well fought draw.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: So I did def
I, it was to the point where in the

Discord I was like, guys, let me explain.

And then I felt that I had to do
that also, like on Instagram, like

I made the post like right after.

I was like, okay, the, I'm not
gonna, I'm not gonna drag Angela

in this saying that it was a loss.

She thinks it's a win.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Primo can be a little dramatic.

I'm just only

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: My,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
though, like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
the predictions win.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: but I do
feel like it was a great match.

It was hard fought all
the way towards the end.

There was lots of good
improvement that we've seen.

And I have to go back and remember,
remind myself that we've been

talking this whole time that, look,

our chances for the playoffs are.

Slim, they're there.

They're not gone.

They, but they've always been slim
because we've always been in this,

term tumultuous kind of time of there's
transition, there's new systems, there's

new strategies, every, all of that.

yeah.

and that we said.

As long as we're seeing improvements,
as long as we're seeing moving forward,

as long as we're seeing like better
connections between players, better

connections between the entire back
line or the entire midfield or, or

getting these, yeah, and we're starting
to see all of that and it's cool.

We started to see all of that.

Unfortunately, it was against the second
place team in the league right now.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
exactly.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
So it is what it is.

But thank you to everybody
who, who came in to correct me.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
I feel like all of us just had

to be like, Hey, can you take
a deep breath for a second?

'cause there was also a few
people in the Discord that were

like going through it, and I'm

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
take a deep breath.

Everybody chill out.

Take.

No thank you.

We're not doing

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
We, we were so close.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
We were so that's so much

closer than we would've been.

A hot minute ago,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

All right.

with that draw didn't
really do much for us.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: else
in the league decided to help us again.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Okay.

So we helped,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: We

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
we are in 11th place.

We helped Kansas City secure the supporter
shield without, without our draw.

They would have not won it last week.

So you are welcome Kansas City.

yes, there's only five matches left
to go, so we're gonna keep saying

it over and over and over, but every
single match is Uber, uber important.

right now, we only two matches can make
the difference between us making it

into the playoffs, and us not right.

Which is crazy to think
how tight everything is.

But then the sad part about all of that
is, us being at 11th Bay being in 12th,

I believe it's bay that's in 12th.

there's enough of a point gap there.

That we're okay.

That's why every time we draw or
we've lost, we're like, we're still

on 11th, we haven't dropped yet.

'cause even if they win, they
still have more points to make

up before they can even reach us.

And we're at the point, thankfully
still, where if we win we can leapfrog

multiple spots, that's where we're at.

We're in 11th.

There's only five matches left,
but we can definitely make it.

and it's not that far away.

Something interesting that's gonna
happen from, Primo GPT was, figuring

out that Chicago with a draw or loss
this week means they will be the first

team eliminated from the playoffs

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
They're playing Kansas City.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: and
they're playing in the city.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Chicago, I love you.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

and so they're gonna be the first
ones most likely, I'm think.

Never say never.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
put a curse on them, I'm just

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: No.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Good luck.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

good luck.

they will be most likely the first
ones to fall, but then everything

starts falling quickly after that.

So like that first domino
is gonna really start

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
progressing pretty.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
very tight, but think after

this weekend it won't be

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

Yeah.

so Permutation Primo real quick.

There isn't too many
options that we have here.

we can move up to ninth.

basically with the win we can
either move to ninth and dash loses.

If the dash draw, then we move up to 10th.

really that's the only game we need to pay
attention to that will directly affect us.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: a draw or loss
for ourselves would just mean that no

matter what the result is anywhere else,
we are going to be still in 11th place.

Um,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: the
Dash Washington in DC I'm just saying,

I'm just saying this work in our favor,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yes,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
about this a little bit too, but go ahead.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: could work in
our favor, although the dash had been

surprising everyone since the break.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Yes, they have.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: other results.

That don't necessarily affect
us directly, but that would very

greatly help us on the long, in the
long run is a draw or loss for Bay,

just for the extra breathing room?

They're right on our tail.

They're, like I said, they're five points
behind, so they still need a couple of

wins to reach us, but it's getting close.

The courage, if they lose, still keeps
us within striking distance also with

Orlando, or if Orlando draw or lose still
keeps us within striking distance to them.

Amazingly, that Orlando's towards the
bottom of the table of the playoff.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
tough second half of the season.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

Yeah.

They've dropped from second being.

From being like.

One-on-one with Casey two dropping
to like seventh place, eight, fifth,

sixth place, something like that.

and then the Gotham and Portland
match, if they draw, it keeps

both of them really close to us.

Not like immediate striking
distance, but close enough where

we're like, okay, we can still.

Do something.

so those are the other matches.

The other results we might want to keep
an eye on, but the one that will directly

affect us and our standing is the dash.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Also well placed, unintentional

pun given that we're playing in
a double header on Eye, on tv.

And we gotta keep an eye on these matches.

You're welcome everybody.

So we're taking on racing in Louisville.

As Mario said, the
table's getting tighter.

This is not a game we can afford to lose.

This is a first.

Sure.

Six pointer.

Races in racing is in 10th.

We're right there behind him.

Essentially tied, like it's
just every, it's just this.

We're just going

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
up and down.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
to win this game.

I

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
team to win this game, like

in a very dominant manner.

Like I just want it to be
like, and everything clicks.

Boom, boom.

Let's go.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
That's really what I want.

But the biggest thing here is right now,
City's been in the same mental space that

racing's in right now with everything
with Savannah DeMelo to our Savy, like

there's been a lot of comparisons injury
wise and, having a team member who's

like having medical events on the pitch,

Given that they have had a fantastic
season, and I don't know how it's

gonna end because it's funky and
I feel for them, and I hope that

Savannah DeMelo continues to recover
and find a way forward in soccer

or life and whatever that means.

but whew, this is gonna be a game

neither team is gonna wanna
walk away with a draw.

Racing is a very physical team.

What's her name?

Laura Harvey, coaches Seattle
said this the last game pregame

talking about Bev as their coach.

In saying that she does not coach the
way, she doesn't coach the game the way

she played the game, which is like the
biggest success factor of a player who's

become a coach, is that you're not just
trying to get them to play your game.

You're coaching a system
like you, you see it

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
prospect perspective, prospective.

so that's cool.

Racing has a few players out, like key
players, Uchenna Kanu being one of them.

Obviously Savannah DeMelo.

There's a few others that are either
questionable or out and I don't know if

they're coming back or if they're out.

but yeah, it's gonna be so interesting
and I'm so curious how this is gonna

go because there's a lot on the line.

Racing

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: de.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
in their heads emotionally like

you, you can tell me all you want.

oh, they're fine.

It's been a couple weeks, and she's fine.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: No, we're not.

We haven't been fine.

Like they're not gonna be fine.

no.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
you can't in this environment right now.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: and truly

I think in one of the more
like, real statements for any

of the NWSL games at the moment.

This one in particular is definitely
neither team wants a draw,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: No,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: neither team wants
to go away with a draw in this match.

'cause a draw is

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
it's a kiss of death right now.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yes as,
as great as the match might be.

A draw is just useless.

Like you don't want that.

And that's, that's usually the
excitement of the international leagues

is when they get down to the promotion
relegation and you start getting into

that, like the draw is gonna screw you.

the, that loss is like dire.

This is the closest we get to that
of the like, promotion relegation.

But like really both teams here
are so close to getting into a good

position for these playoff, for a
playoff run that nobody wants to lose.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: and
this team has been playing weird this year

in a way that I don't understand, part of
that is their physicality, and sometimes

it's like unregulated physicality.

I'll talk about that in a second.

players on their team.

They have a very fun team to watch.

have Ary Borges, who I'm not even
gonna talk about this episode because

I've talked about her a bunch before.

Uchenna Kanu, who I said is out,
who I love talking about, there's

so many good players on this team.

There's Arin Wright, who's been
on and off the injury list.

Like I asked Eva, I was like, who
should I talk about for racing?

We were looking at the roster
and we were all both like, Sure.

Pick names outta a hat.

I don't know.

This is a really good team and racing has
a weird history of being a really good

team and it's just not clicking like it's
that kind of where Angel City is in the

sense of like you're twisting the dials
just a little bit here and there, trying

to figure out the best option or the best
plays or what have you, but it's like

something isn't right yet, or you're like,
you're missing a player or something.

I hope they get it together not to.

Saturday they can get it together
after that, but not on Saturday.

Um,

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
say that every single time.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
I gotta put it out there.

So I'm gonna start talking
about the team with Emma Sears.

She is all three players actually
are like in their first or second

seasons in the league, which is crazy
because they're like household names.

Emma Sears is number 13.

She's a forward, she played at
Ohio State with Kayla Fisher, who

I'm gonna talk about in a second.

had 13 goals between this
season and last season.

Eight caps for the women's
national team, for the us.

She's known for playing wide and
like being on the wings essentially.

And beco.

She's become a playmaker.

I was reading up on her.

in her last year at Ohio State,
'cause I think she did the fifth

year thing with the COVID year.

she like essentially changed her role.

'cause you're like a super
senior at that point.

you're playing your position
at a different level so you can

play around with it a little bit.

And it just, everything I've read
about Emma Sears and just watching

her play both with racing and the
national team, she's just fun to watch.

She also has great hair that's completely
unrelated, but like I'm jealous

of that thick ponytail she's got.

It's just, she's got great hair.

but yeah, it's, she's a threat,
obviously a scoring threat.

You wanna marker, want to make sure
she doesn't get the ball, what you can.

Especially when there's a player like
Sarah Weber on the field with her.

She's a rookie, played at Nebraska.

This is the most wild thing
I've read in a minute.

In three seasons in high school,
she scored a hundred goals.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: What,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: I
don't know if that means her team, was

that good or the other teams were that bad
or it doesn't matter because obviously I

didn't watch Nebraska soccer for the last
four years, but that's, or eight years.

That's insane.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: how do you.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

It's okay.

But over the course of high school,
she had a, or three years of high

school, she had, a hundred goals.

She scored 43 in college, which makes
sense because it does get harder.

But she played at Nebraska and
now so far she's only got one

goal in the league, thankfully.

But she is going to be a problem second
it clicks for her and she settles in and

she's got more of like a defined role.

she's gonna be a problem.

lovingly known as Sweb.

In the trading card Sweb So to have
an attack with like young players

like that who are already, they've
got their chops, they're putting in

the time they're getting the call ups.

'cause I think Sarah Weber's
on the U 23 team too.

So like they're not strangers to US
soccer in the international game.

That's part of that greatness.

So Sarah Weber's also like a forward
and a midfielder, so she can do

double duty, be a different type of
threat than an Emma Sears or like

a predominant forward because you
know how to play make differently.

So there's that.

And then there's the
Kayla Fisher of it all.

And I bring this up because she
has a history with Angel City that.

sucks.

And

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Oh, I'm like, I'm reading.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
notes.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
So she's number nine.

She's a midfielder.

She is a very good midfielder.

Like nothing I'm gonna say takes away from
the fact that she is a very good player.

And I said this with Merritt.

Merritt was hated.

League by a lot of people, a lot of fans.

Partially because she was aggressive,
partially because it's, she was so good.

to be hated by fan bases as a rival or as
a opposing player, you have to be good.

Nobody cares if you're just fine.

It's oh, okay.

Make sure she doesn't score.

Sure.

Like it, there's no big feelings
unless you have the personality or

like the villain, and Kayla Fisher
kind of embodies that energy.

she has the same energy as Merritt,
but I think because of her youth,

she hasn't reigned it in yet because
she's a very aggressive player.

She's like a gnat it's
like irritating, right?

Like you have those defenders in every
sport that has offensive defense,

There's I just think of certain people
I played basketball against, or like

professional basketball players where
I'm just like, Ugh, you're so irritating.

Because it's usually like this little
small person that just like sticks on

you and you're like, please go away.

Like I can't move my arm.

And that's the whole
point of defense, duh.

But the hard part is that she hasn't.

The way that we said Macey Hodge,
like needs to figure out how

to control her fouling so she
doesn't accumulate so many cards.

Kayla Fisher, same thing.

You gotta pull it back a little bit.

You can play aggressive, but when it that
like out of control point where there's no

coming back from this, there's an issue.

last season before got hurt and or like
towards the end of Merritt's career

with the league and with Angel City, we
were playing racing at home and granted.

Lynn Stadiums also where
Christen Press got hurt.

So we have history racing
Louisville and shit going down.

We're playing at home.

There's like a battle in
the box Merritt's there.

Kayla Fisher, like I don't even
remember like the buildup or anything.

I just know that I saw Merritt,
like essentially like tumble

and fly almost into the metal
railing of the supporter section.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
And Kayla rolling after her.

Like they just were like in a tussle
to the point where as Merrit was

like getting up or like readjusting.

She full on straddled
her and was like, me.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
words exchanged

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
re Yeah, I remember that.

Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: and
I know the general gist of what was said.

You can make your assumptions.

I'm pretty sure everybody has the same
general idea, but words were exchanged.

I believe there was a
yellow, but that happened.

So then we fast forward to this
season, we're playing them at home.

Same side of the pitch, like in
front of the supporter section

in the box, Kayla Fisher gets
tangled up with Madison Hammond.

She essentially, like
their arms are all tangled.

And that happens, I'm not
saying that the physicality is.

Bad or oh my God, don't do that.

Don't hurt my, I don't care.

Like you're playing a contact sport,
you're gonna get bodied, it's when

you get tangled up and instead of
just trying to free yourself, you then

essentially like palm somebody's head
and spin them around and pull their hair.

Then yes, hello.

No thank you.

She ended up getting a red card and then
serving a three game suspension after

that, and that's on top of, at that
time, Ary Borges had gotten a red and was

serving a three game suspension and like
we were the last game of Ary's suspension.

Ary came back the next week then Kayla
fisher's out for three weeks after that.

It was this, their season.

That's what I'm saying, like
racing season has been weird.

In a way I don't understand, but
their team is very good, and I don't

think that you should underestimate
them because they're having like

this conflicting season of like
really high highs, really low lows.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I think
that's the dangerous part of all

of this is the unpredictability.

it's, we like, we can't go into
this like a spirit game being

like they're just fucking good.

Like we gotta play up to them
or we are definitely gonna win

this one 'cause they've been bad.

It's just, nope, we complete wild card.

Yeah, I remember that.

Most of the time we've played them, it's
been pretty physical, so that physicality

plus the absolute need for a win,
it's gonna be an interesting matchup.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
everybody Valks off

the pitch in one piece.

No

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: we
all be, can we all be safe?

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
teams?

Yeah.

can everybody just walk off in the
same condition that they walked on?

Maybe with some ice or something, but like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Just

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: remember
you usually like smile and hug after

the game 'cause like you know them.

So just,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
and should just end up hurt.

That's all

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
from this game is please

just let both teens not

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: stay healthy.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
No traumatic events.

Just let Angel City win.

That's all.

that's all I ask, please.

No trauma and also an Angel City win.

That's not too much to ask.

but for Angel City, I was to figure
out, 'cause I, I usually try to pick

players out and say, okay, this is
what we're looking for from them.

This is the kind of player they are.

We're getting towards the
end of the season where I've

already talked about everybody.

Or at least everybody who's playing
and we have like evidence of, so

it's just getting into the fact that
our midfield needs to lock down.

thankfully we're gonna have Nealy
Martin, Macey Hodge, Mai...,

is it News?

News?

I don't know.

Everybody pronounces it I
can't figure out which one's

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: I
thought you said knee house.

Knee house.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
So the media guide on Angel City

says Ne House, or ne whos, and then.

Isaac and Tracey say news and then
all the different broadcasts say news.

So I should just DM her and
ask her because I feel bad.

So anyway, Maiara, Macey, and
Nealy in our midfield chef's kiss.

Love it.

They lock this down with Kennedy Fuller
with, there's, with Jun, honestly, to have

Jun a little, play a little up in the mid.

Please.

This is a beautiful, young, fun
shenanigan midfield, but also so

talented and so And I think the more
they're able to play together, the

better they're gonna be able to lock in.

Because I think a lot of Macey's fouls
come from the franticness that occurs

in an angel city midfield situation

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
at a certain point.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: there's definitely
moments where we see the system working,

then we see that one piece of the
system not work and then panic ensues.

It's

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: And
that's, any team, like you're gonna get

the panic of they broke our press, or
they, oh, they broke through, whatever.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
with, especially with Nealy Martin

in there, with her experience in the
league, going from a bottom of the table

to a championship winning team, that
is going to be huge for the younger

players, especially the midfielders.

So I'm excited to see how we come out

on Saturday.

And then I mentioned it earlier, but
like Sarah Gorden is Sarah Gorden.

We had yet another Sarah Gorden
chant in the stands last week.

She's just exactly who you want her to be.

but she's been the only consistent
person in our back line.

Savy Reid is hurt currently.

I don't know if she's gonna
be available this week or not.

Dorson just came on, she
effectively was just like, oh crap.

I'm here.

I guess I'm starting now and
playing a full 90, great.

and then the combination of shores, M.A.

Giselle, mbi, and I feel like
there was another player.

Playing on the wings that I
don't remember, there's been

constant rotation there.

And yeah, you're gonna set people out
but change your starters unless there's

injuries or other things happening.

So like

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
I'm curious to see how we log into

this last few weeks of the season.

We have a month left.

We'll see what happens.

A

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: A lot can
happen including, and we'll see

how much of a chess game they're
playing for this current season

versus building for the next.

The roster freeze isn't for till another
two weeks, October 9th, I believe so.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: So

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Any team.

Any team, including Angel City,
can add people to the roster.

They just can't be international
transfers, but if they're free

agents, they can add players to the
roster till the end of the season.

if we.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
friends.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: If we get new,
if we get one, maybe two new signings.

I haven't looked at what our actual roster
looks like right now, and if we have

room, but if we get a signing that might
indicate that, like they're thinking,

Hey, we can make a push towards this.

or, we might not.

And it'd be like, we're just gonna
let it ride for the season and we

will recoup, in the off season.

But there's still a possibility.

And you know what?

it's been interesting and I will
say that is that they've, this

second half of the second half,
they've been keeping it interesting.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
So Buckley, your seat belts,

hold onto your pants, do whatever
you need to do to just hold on.

It's like the oh shit bar in the car.

that's where I think all
Angel City fans are right now.

please, I don't know,
please just keep us safe.

but overall in our past meetups
with racing, we've won twice.

We've drawn twice, we've lost three times,
so I would love to see in the win column.

And then we just have
the rest of the stats.

So fingers crossed for an
Angel City win on Saturday.

That's

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
to say.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

So once again, that matches.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
get raptured.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Once you never know.

There's a couple more days.

and if you don't, then the match is
going to be on Saturday, November 27th

versus racing at Lynn Family Stadium.

It's gonna be a four 30
match for us on ion tv.

Or if you can't watch it on tv, listen
to Isaac and Tracey on iHeartRadio.

It absolutely is the best, and we
can't stop ever singing their praises.

And, yeah, it's gonna
be an interesting one.

We need this one.

let's see what happens.

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I sent it to her to be able to like,
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I'll send you so much more.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Nice.

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angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Oh, also thank you guys for

like 10,000 downloads over the
last, I think I mentioned it a

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: ago.

I know I put it in the Discord,
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me_1_09-23-2025_213723: Bye.

those glasses are the equivalent of the
omelet maker where like you can enjoy

different types of food as long as you're
okay with them being in a half moon shape.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yep.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: It's

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
or it's like the East Bay Cheerleading

Nike shoe or like volleyball shoe
where it has the insert where

you put your school color in.

That's

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: a,

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
feels like to me.

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
yeah, the plastic Nike logo.

So you put the little card

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723: Yeah.

And it hurts like hell
on the side of your foot.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723: yeah.

That's how you got your team
to get some school spirit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

angela-guest373_1_09-23-2025_213723:
have that Nike insert.

me_1_09-23-2025_213723:
Oh, that's a good one.

Uh, that's a good callback.