Silverware, Goals, Transfers, and Winter Breaks for our Aussies Abroad

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Hello and welcome to the Aussie Football Passport, your one stop pod for updates

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on your favourite Aussie men and women who are playing their club careers abroad.

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I'm your host Alex and whilst there is no national team action to bring

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you, there is silverware, goals, assists,

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yellow cards and a red card to bring you this week

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so you will not leave this episode disappointed. I promise.

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All that and some final league matches before the winter breaks

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begin in Europe. Let's get straight into it with the headlines.

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This week we start with a transfer,

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a bit of a surprise transfer in fact, and it is Chloe Berryhill,

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formerly Chloe Legazo, who has signed with the Western Sydney

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Wonders in the A League Women's. Now of course that's technically

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not an Aussie abroad story, however she did leave Como 1907

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in Italy after a frustrating stint with minimal game time. The move is

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designed to get her in front of Joe Montemuro, the Matilda's coach with

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an Asian cup spot up grabs, but more on that soon.

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Chloe also dropped a bit of a bombshell in her post match interview after

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her debut with the Western Sydney Wonders at the weekend, saying she will retire

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at the end of the season. She will be focusing on family life

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with her wife and hoping to start a family. So congratulations

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to Chloe, but she has some unfinished business to do

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in the A League Women's and hopefully in a green and golden jersey as

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well. Now there is a bit of a sad start

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to the injury news for this week's episode where Brisbane Raw have

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confirmed that Tamika Ylip will be sidelined for an extended period

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after sustaining a significant hamstring injury in

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last weekend's game against Adelaide United. So you

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will remember if you listen to last week's episode that we mentioned that Tameka had

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looked like she had injured herself quite seriously

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considering her reaction, and it has now been confirmed

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she's had multiple consultations with leading medical specialists and

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they have determined that surgery is required. She has undergone

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the knife earlier this week and it means that she will be

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back hopefully for the A League Women's Final series for Brisbane Raw,

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but it means that she will be ruled out for the Asian Cup. So devastating

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news for Tameka and our thoughts are with her. It does now open

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up a spot in that Matilda squad, you'd imagine,

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so let's see what happens. But there now speaking of

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Matilda's Mary Fowler is expected to return in the new

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year from her ACL rehabilitation at Manchester City,

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so we will keep you updated on that one of course once we get more

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news of Course the WSL is winding up for the winter

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break, but more on that later in the show. Harry Souter has

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returned to full training with his side Leicester City in some

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very timely and positive news not only for his club side but also for

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the soccerers. It hopefully means he will be back on the playing pitch very

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soon considering the condensed fixtures of the English Championship,

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so we will of course let you know once he does. Now speaking of

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fellow center backs, Alessandro Cicati is due back

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in a couple of weeks time for Palmer. According to transfer market they have his

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return date down as the 29th of December and

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we wait with bated breath for Alessandro's return

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to Parma of course. All right, well that is it

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for the headlines. Short and sweet this week, but we will move on to the

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weekly wrap shortly.

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All right, let's start the weekly wrap in USA

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with our ladies. Morgan Aquino played the full game in goal for D.C.

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united in their two all draw with Lexington. The result keeps them in

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8th position which is five points from the playoffs.

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So all the best to Morgan and her teammates. Now to England where

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Kyra Cooney Cross and Steph Cutley both started and played the full game for Arsenal

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in their 10 win over FC Twente. In Champions

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League action, Caitlin Ford came on as a second half substitute

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and played 33 minutes. At the weekend we had our first of the

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Aussie derbies in WSL which of course occurs regularly

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considering there is only 12 teams in the WSL that will of course

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change for next season to 14. Just a little side note

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there if you were wondering. But anyway back to the game. Arsenal took on Everton

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and Arsenal came out Victors winning that game 3 1.

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All four of our Aussies started this one, however only Caitlin Ford and Kyra Cooney

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Cross played at the full game as Steph Cutley played 81 minutes

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which is rare for her to get substituted but you know,

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good to see her getting a rest. Claire Wheeler played 59 minutes for Everton

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on the losing side unfortunately and Caitlin Ford, well she

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thought she had scored the second goal for Arsenal in the game. However it was

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awarded to Alessia Russo who made mention in

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her post match interview that her and Caitlin can share

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the goal if they'd like but I'm sure Caitlin probably doesn't want that.

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She'd prefer it to be in her name and Alessia probably the same

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but being polite there in the interview. Anyway, moving right along to

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Chelsea who handed out an absolute hiding to AS Roma. The final

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score was 6 nil. Sam Kerr started and played 69

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minutes for Chelsea and picked up an assist whilst her fellow

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countryman Ellie Carpenter was an unused substitute in that one.

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Winona Heatley started and played the full game for Roma in a tough day for

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her side. Winona at the weekend did not play for her club side.

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She remained on the bench. Now back to Chelsea where

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at the weekend they played in the WSL and backed up that

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emphatic win with another win and clean sheet. This time it was against

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Brighton and Hove Albion. The score was 30 in that

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one. Lee Carpenter started and played the full game while Sam Kerr came on at

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halftime and provided another assist in a very productive week for

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Sam. Great to see her finding her feet and getting some good minutes

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and some end product as well. Charlie's rule played 24

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minutes as a second half substitute for Brighton in that one.

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Katrina Gorey started and played the whole game for West Ham

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in their two or draw with Liverpool in the bottom of the table

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clash. Both sides will be looking to go back to the drawing board as they

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plot away out from the bottom position. Now just going

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back to that point I made earlier about the WSL expanding to 14 teams

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next year. So last place typically would get relegated from the WSL and

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the winner of the WSL2 league would

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automatically get promoted. But because

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they're expanding to the 14 teams it means that last place will

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actually play off against third place to secure a

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spot in the WSL for next season. So it shouldn't be all doom

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and gloom. However, you don't want to be down that end of the table,

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do you? Let's be quite honest about that now.

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Leicester City defeated London City Lionesses.

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That's a bit of a mouthful. One nil. Emily Van Egbond started and played the

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full game for Leicester whilst Alana Kennedy was not in the matchday squad for

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London City. Claire Hunt started and played the full game for

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Tottenham in their 30 draw with Manchester United. Charlotte Grant remains

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sidelined with injury and as I made mention of earlier in

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the show, the WSL will now take a winter break and will return on

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the 10th of June January for a well earned break for our ladies. So all

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the best put your feet up and recover for the second half of

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the WSL season. Now to Germany where Hayley Rasso was a

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second half substitute for Untracked Frankfurt in their 53

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loss to FC Nurnberg. She played 23 minutes in that one.

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She was again a second half substitute in the 86th

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minute. This time around in her side's weekend game against Union

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Berlin which they drew to all. Jamila Rankin she started and played

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the full match for Hoffenheim as they were defeated 32 by Red

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Bull Leipzig or RB Leipzig depending on whether you want to

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mention the major sponsor slash owner's

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name or not. But I guess we're not the ABC are we? So we can

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say it all right now to Italy to round out our women's action for

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this week. Sussuolo head into the winter break in Italy with a much

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needed 1 nil win over Genoa. Jessica Nash helped her

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side keep a clean sheet as she started and played the full game

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in defense while Jacinta Galbadarachi started and played 73

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minutes on the left wing. The Serie A feminine LA will return

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on the weekend of the 19th of January so

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they will get a little bit longer than the WSL ladies there.

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All right, that is it for the women. Let's head over to the

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men's side of things and we'll start in the championship where Nestry is

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Ian Kunda came off the bench at halftime as Watford drew one

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all with Sheffield United in midweek action. He did not make

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it off the bench in Watford's game at the weekend.

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Another one will draw this time with Wrexham. Just in case you were wondering,

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Callum Eldo played 85 minutes for Derby county in a one all draw

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with Millwall in their midweek game. He did not make it off

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the bench in the game on Monday night. Now Cameron

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Burgess played the full match for Swansea City against Portsmouth as they won one

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nil in that midweek fixture. Hayden Matthews started and played 87

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minutes while Adrian Sega came off the bench in the 70th minute for

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Portsmouth. Cameron Burgessen played the full game for his side on

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Saturday. This time however they lost 21 to Stoke City.

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Hayden Matthews then backed up at the weekend

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playing 93 minutes for Portsmouth in their 21 win over Blackburn

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on Sunday. Lewis Miller played the full game for Blackburn while

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Adrian Sega was an unused substitute for Portsmouth in that

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one. Now going back to midweek and Blackburn where Lewis Miller also

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played a full game in their one all draw with Oxford United.

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Now Riley McGree, he's well he's in red hot form

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because not only did he play 73 minutes, he scored his side's

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opening goal and set up their second as Middlesbrough beat Charlton

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21 in midweek action. Sam Silvera came on after

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68 minutes in that game. Then at the weekend Riley McGree backed it up playing

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64 minutes as Millsborough ran out 31 winners this time

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over QPR. Sam Silvera came off the bench in the 83rd

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minute for Middlesbrough and Daniel Benny was an unused substitute

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for QPR. Now let's drop down a Division 2 league one

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where Alex Robertson played 81 minutes for Cardiff City in a one

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nil win over Stevenage FC in midweek action. He then

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played at 65 minutes for Cardiff City on Sunday in a 43

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win over Doncaster and Cardiff are now top of

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League One and absolutely flying. So great to see that Alex Robertson is

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playing his part in his sides push to get promoted back

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to the championship where they were of course last season. Rafael Borges

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Rodriguez played the full game and scored a goal for We An Athletic in their

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one all draw with Huddersfield Town. Tyrese Francois was not in

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the matchday squad. Now let's head to Scotland where Nicholas Milanovic

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and Kasuna Yengi both came off the bench in the 65th minute for Aberdeen

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in their Conference League match on Thursday night

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where they lost 1 nil to Strasbourg. Nick Suman was an

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unused substitute. Cameron Devlin played 87 minutes for Hart in

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a 2 nil win over Falkirk at the weekend. This means that

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Hart maintained their position at the top of the league table in Scotland.

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So well done to Hartz there but the season is well and truly

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not over so I'm sure there are a few more twists and turns for Cameron

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Devlin and his teammates there. Now to Motherwell where Apostolos

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Damatilopoulos came on in the 73rd minute as Motherwell

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drew nil all with Dundee United. Johnny Katrumba started and played 72 minutes

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at left back whilst Oscar Priestman remained on the bench for Marvel

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for Dundee United. Ryan Strain started and played the full game and

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Zach Sapsford started and played 72 minutes.

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Now in some interesting news after that game

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Motherwell's coach was sacked so it will be interesting to see if that

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affects our three Aussies at Motherwell in terms of their playing minutes

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or positions. We will of course keep you updated in

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the coming weeks. Now Livingston played out an absolute

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mad 2 all draw with Dundee. Tetty Yangi was a late

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substitute playing nine minutes in total but he scored the equalizer.

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It was a pretty easy goal and in fact the Dundee

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goal keeper came out and apologized afterwards for his mistake.

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So look Tetty will take them however they can

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come as any striker would. As for Ryan McGowan, well he started

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but he got a red card in what was a sacrificial move for his team

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to stop a potential match winning goal from Dundee. He played 89

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minutes before receiving that red card late on in that

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one. Rounding out the action in Scotland on Monday night,

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local time was Rangers defeating Hibbs

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1 nil. Jack Idaho played the full game at

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center back and Martin Boyle came on as a 69th minute

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substitute in the hope that Hibbs could salvage something from the game.

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However, that was not to be the case and Martin Boyle was

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unable to continue his form from earlier in

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the season with a goal or an assist for his side in that one.

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All right, let's head to Germany where Jackson Irvine played another full game

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whilst Connor Metcalfe came off the bench in the 96th minute

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as St. Pauli picked up a much needed 21 win over

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FC Heidenheim at the weekend to move out of the

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relegation zone. Now to Spain where Matt Ryan's Levante

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were due to play on Monday evening against Villarreal.

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However, due to a large storm this game

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was postponed. Our Mobile had an eventful game as his side

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Castellan beat Mirandez 31 in the Spanish second division.

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Our started played the full 90 minutes and during that time he

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managed to provide an assist for his side's first goal of the match and get

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himself a yellow card on the stroke of half time. However, it is

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good times for Castillon who have put together five back to back wins and

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are now within striking distance of the promotion places

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in the second division there in Spain. So fantastic news. Now to

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Netherlands where Jordan Boss was a second half substitute making

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an instant impact by grabbing an assist in his side's 43

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Europa League defeat against football club FCSB.

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He was at fault for one of the goals however and it

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was not exactly what coach Robin Van Persie

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wanted but they will look to regroup and they did just that, but unfortunately

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not in a positive way because he then played at the weekend coming

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on in the 64th minute Jordan Boss that is as Feyenoord

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lost two nil to Ajax in Dutch league action. Continuing with

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domestic Dutch football, Adrin Justic played a full game for

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her Cles alamello in a 43 loss to League leaders PSV

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Eindhoven. Max Ballard played a full game for NAC

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Breda in their one all draw with FC Utrecht. Now to Austria

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where Marco Tillio came on in the 77th minute for Rapid

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Veen in a one all draw with FC Blau Weiss. Lindsay now

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in some very positive news, Jed Drew returned for his side

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Hartberg playing 25 minutes as a second half substitute

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in their 21 win over WSG Tyrrell. So fantastic

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stuff to see. Jed Drew back on the pitch. He was firing quite

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well before he picked up that injury, which was very unfortunate

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to see. Now to Serbia, where Milos Degenerek started and played

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the full game for your side, TSC Baka Topola as they drew nil.

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Or with Red Star Belgrade. Not only did he help his side keep a clean

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sheet against their much fancied opponent, but in true defensive lynchpin

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style, he got himself a yellow card. Well done, Milos. We are very proud

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of you, mate. All right, now to the Czech Republic or Czechia.

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Garan Kuol came off the bench in the 84th minute for Sparta Prague in their

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21 win over CS Universitar Craiova in

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conference league action in midweek. He was

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an unused substitute at the weekend in Czech League action. All right,

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that is it for the weekly wrap. Next up,

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we will do Players of the Week and wrap up this week's episode.

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Players of the Week. Let's start with our Women's Player

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of the Week. It is Alex Chidiak. She finally broke her duck

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for a new club, FC Como, scoring their only goal in a heavy

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31 loss to Fiorentina. While she won't be happy with her

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team's result, on a personal level, it'll be great news and will hopefully remind

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Joe Montemuro of her talents. Rather good timing, of course,

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considering the unfortunate injury to Tamika Yallup, of course, which opens

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up that extra spot in the Mattel's Asian cup campaign

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next year. Unfortunately, Alex Chidiak will have to wait a couple of weeks before her

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side is back in action, of course, with that winter break for the Serie A

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feminile, but nonetheless, congratulations, Alex.

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A personal favorite of mine and definitely a play out

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that you should be keeping an eye on. Now to our Men's Player of

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the Week. There were plenty of goal scorers I could have given it to this

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week, some ones that helped out with clean sheets as well. But it had

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to go to Keanu Backus, who not only played a full game,

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he provided an assist as he helped his side. St mirren

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beat Celtic 31 in the Scottish League Cup Final and win

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the first trophy in over a decade.

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So congratulations to Keanu Backus

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and his teammates at St Mirren there with that one, in case

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you're wondering. Definitely worth checking out and one we have shared on

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social media. I believe the assist was a corner routine straight from

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the training park and just fantastic stuff. Another player that

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should surely be on the radar for Tony Popovic and

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the Socceroos coming into the World Cup. Keanu he hasn't quite hit the

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same form that he did at St Mirren in his previous stint, but he's

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definitely got all the talent and on set piece duties there

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at St Mirren will certainly help the cause and I think that position next

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to Jackson Irvine is still up for grabs. So Chiardo,

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keep up your good form and you might be getting a call from Tony Popovic.

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Well, can you believe it? That is it for another week of the Aussie football

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passport. I hope you enjoyed this episode. The website is now live and I'll put

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the link in the show notes, so make sure you go and check it out.

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I'll also share it on social media for you as well. While you're there,

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let me know if you'd like a couple of bonus episodes as a thank you

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for sticking with me for can you believe it? Over 30 episodes already.

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Maybe a Socceroos Year in Review pod

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and a Matilda's Year in Review pod. What do you reckon? I'll leave it

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with you. Get in touch via social media or email and I'll get

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to work. All right, thanks for listening and I'll catch you in the next episode.

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Goodbye for now.