The USWNT has found a formula that works

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Claire Watkins reacts to the USWNT’s 3-0 win over Colombia, highlighting the team’s mentality, as well as the veteran performances of Alex Morgan and Alyssa Naeher. Claire also praises Jaedyn Shaw while discussing how the win highlighted the USWNT’s ability to thread the needle with their roster. Claire then turns to college basketball to explain why Caitlin Clark made the right move in going pro (and why Cameron Brink should as well). Finally, Claire looks ahead to the tournament, before ending with a note on the importance of referees.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub it is Monday
0:09.7	March 4th as we are recording right now.
0:13.6	We have a big US Women's National Team game
0:16.4	to talk about, dig into what we saw,
0:18.7	really interesting stuff from them this week.
0:21.1	And then we'll do a quick look at the end of the college basketball
0:25.2	regular season.
0:26.4	We have some superlatives to give out, some congratulations.
0:28.9	We saw some confetti.
0:29.8	We saw some nets being cut down, but then no rest for the weary we're jumping right
0:34.9	into the post season and what could be one of the most competitive March
0:38.5	madnesses ever. Let's dig in. So good news for U.S. Women's national team fans.
0:44.7	They are through to the semi-finals of the Gold Cup with a relatively dominant 3-nill win
0:49.7	over Colombia, big bounce back game for the United States after that surprising loss to Mexico at the end of the
0:55.7	Gold Cup group stage. The goal scores were Lindsay Hurran, Jen and Nyswanger, and Jayton Shaw.
1:02.1	All three of those goals came in the first half.
1:04.4	They did also just defend that well in the second,
1:06.9	keeping a clean sheet in Alyssa Nair's 100th cap.
1:11.9	Let's dig in. I actually really enjoyed this game for a lot of different reasons. It was kind of a funny game. It was not particularly well
1:18.7	officiated. There was quite a bit of gamesmanship you you might even say on both sides, but definitely on on Columbia's side.
1:27.0	And in that respect, I think we got a really good glimpse of what the U.S. is capable of in terms of mentality, focus, and work ethic
1:36.1	when Plan A kind of blows up, which is not exactly what we saw in that game against Mexico.
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