USWNT: It's a mental game, plus a chat with Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In today’s episode, Claire talks through the USWNT’s 3-1 comeback victory over Iceland on Sunday, how the team slightly struggled with roster rotation and how their second half stabilizing showcased the team’s underlying strengths. Then she has a chat with three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas about her whirlwind summer after starring in Paris, and her off-track interest in global health.

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0:00.0	How comfortable to the list of Thompson look coming in in her second game back for the United States, right?
0:05.0	She scores a goal in the first in the first game of the international break.
0:08.5	She comes into the second game and then she's passing that confidence on to Emassiers.
0:12.0	You're seeing that winning culture be
0:14.4	reformed in these players in real time.
0:18.6	Hello everybody and welcome to today's edition of the late sub I am your host
0:25.2	Claire Watkins it is Monday October 28th we're gonna do another deep dive into a
0:30.0	pretty interesting USM's national team performance
0:32.8	against Iceland over the weekend.
0:34.3	They had to come from behind for a big win.
0:36.6	Lots of Tale of Two-Haves.
0:38.1	Can't wait to dive in.
0:39.0	And then we actually have a really interesting conversation
0:42.1	with three-time Olympic Gold medalist Gabby Thomas on both her summer in Paris the success that she's seen since and also her very unique interest in global health.
0:51.0	Let's dig in.
0:52.0	All right, the US Women's National Team keeps rolling and so do we. They
0:57.2	had another game in this three game international break over the weekend. They're second against Iceland. They come back to win 3 to 1 with goals for the US by Lynn
1:07.0	Williams, Lindsay Horan, and Emma Sears in her first cap. Really, really nice debut from the
1:12.4	U.S. Women's national team rookie.
1:15.0	As expected we saw a lot of rotation going into this game.
1:18.0	It's a very tight window and as everybody knows,
1:21.0	NWSL players are going straight from the final game on Wednesday to the final weekend of regular season,
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