With Match can I now delete the music on my phone to free up space?

I'm a bit confused about the service.  Does match allow me to delete all the music off my phone, ipad etc, then access it through the cloud? 
thanks!

When you turn match on on your phone it makes you remove all your stored songs (but not your podcasts) and then it appears to require you to download them from the cloud to listen to them? My computer is still doing to match process so I'm not sure its all working properly yet.

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