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USMNT vs Australia Reaction: U.S. Win and Clinch Top of Group! · Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogert and Tab Ramos

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Speaker 1: You know, Sir Genio Desk's unpredictability and the way he plays.
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Speaker 1: He just destroys teams because you know, I was watching
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Speaker 1: the game. I was watching the game thing and I
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Speaker 1: remember coaching Sergino and thinking, Hey, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do next, but neither does the other team,
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Speaker 1: and that's great for us.
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Speaker 2: What's going on, everybody, Welcome back to Inside American Soccer.
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Speaker 2: I am USM and T inside of Tom Boger. I'm
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Speaker 2: joined by one of the greatest players in US soccer history.
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Speaker 2: He knows a lot about winning the second match at
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Speaker 2: the World Cup to clinch advancing to knockout States tab
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Speaker 2: Ramos tab The United States beats Australia to nothing. They
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Speaker 2: clinch advancing through the Group D. Later that night, when
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Speaker 2: Turkey failed to beat Paraguay, the United States clinched first
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Speaker 2: place in Group D with a match remaining. Tab Could
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Speaker 2: you have imagined the scenario. What was the likelihood three
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Speaker 2: months ago that this was going to play out?
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Speaker 3: I would have to say zero the likelihood. You know,
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Speaker 3: in March.
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Speaker 1: In March, we were worried about what our starting eleven
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Speaker 1: was going to be and we were just really hoping
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Speaker 1: for the best at that point. But what we've seen
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Speaker 1: has been incredible, Tom. I mean, we see a team
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Speaker 1: fully committed, with so much confidence, you know, looking to
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Speaker 1: win the game, playing at a high pace from the
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Speaker 1: first moment. I mean, you know, it's a team that's
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Speaker 1: just ready to go. It's almost like they've been saving
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Speaker 1: the last six or seven years to give us this.
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Speaker 1: And if that was the case, I'm happy they did
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Speaker 1: that because I'm so happy to see what's going on
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 2: So maybe there was a method to all the madness
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Speaker 2: and all the changing and tinkering and with lineups and
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Speaker 2: tactics and little tweaks, and even when there would be
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Speaker 2: a good period of playing a friendly, the next game
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Speaker 2: things could be different. Like in the fall it seemed
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Speaker 2: like they unlocked something with this three four two one
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Speaker 2: in possession, and then in March they didn't do it.
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Speaker 2: Baligin looks great, and then all of a sudden they
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Speaker 2: time with pulstick as of falls nine. Whatever it was
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Speaker 2: that recent Bosino and his staff did. It worked And
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Speaker 2: we have to be a little bit honest about Paraguay
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Speaker 2: and Australia are not quite Brazil and Argentina. But I
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Speaker 2: don't really care about that. You play who's in front
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Speaker 2: of you. In the United States have six points after
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Speaker 2: two group stage games at the World Cup TAB. This
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Speaker 2: is the second time since nineteen thirty and that was
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Speaker 2: the last time they did this that they had two
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Speaker 2: wins in a group stage, a stat that absolutely blew
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Speaker 2: my mind because I think back to a lot of
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Speaker 2: big results and good results, and I guess the best
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Speaker 2: that they did was four points in the group stage,
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Speaker 2: five point like i've since nineteen thirty, So it's it's
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Speaker 2: really mind blowing TAB. And on Friday they beat Australia
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Speaker 2: to nothing. The crowd was incredible. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: Australian fans there which were quickly drowned out. And I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you what, it's not easy to drown out Australian fans.
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Speaker 2: Those are some of the best supporters in the world.
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Speaker 2: It had the buzz in the air of something special
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Speaker 2: could happen, and the fans were ready, and the players
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Speaker 2: met them very early, and they played off each other,
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Speaker 2: I think for the game. And there's early own goal
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Speaker 2: to put up the United to put the United States
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Speaker 2: up one nothing. Alex Freeman gets the second goal in
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Speaker 2: the first half and that's a final score tap. So
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Speaker 2: what what was your keys to the game? What did
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Speaker 2: they do so well to control and win to nothing?
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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I think we have to say
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Speaker 1: that Australia was exactly what we thought they were going
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Speaker 1: to be, you know, because for the first five to
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Speaker 1: six minutes they also came out really hard and try
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Speaker 1: to go at us. And that's what we expected, you know,
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Speaker 1: we we said from the beginning. I'm not sure if
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Speaker 1: they're still upset at Mike Grella, but but but I
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Speaker 1: think this is this is this is still the same
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Speaker 1: Australian team that we talked about. They're dangerous, they can
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Speaker 1: beat you, they have a few ways they can beat you.
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Speaker 1: But they were just not good enough to beat our
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Speaker 1: team because we can match them. We can match them mentally,
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Speaker 1: we can match them or or or be better than
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Speaker 1: them physically and and quality wise. I just think we
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Speaker 1: have more quality all over the field. So I think
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Speaker 1: what happened in this game is what should have happened.
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Speaker 1: I think also what helped a little bit was and
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. You know, sometimes as a coach, and
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Speaker 1: obviously you don't you don't want to blame coaches, because
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Speaker 1: every coach is trying to do what they can to win.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm not sure if Tony Popovich was
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Speaker 1: trying to outsmart Poschatino in some sort of way, But
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Speaker 1: I just can't find a reason why you don't have
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Speaker 1: Iran Kundain Metcalf on the field when when you know
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Speaker 1: that if there's there's anything that are the US national
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Speaker 1: team is still lacking confidence with that's in defending, and
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Speaker 1: they needed to attack us to have a chance to
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Speaker 1: win the game. And I think by taking those two
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Speaker 1: players out, you probably took your two best weapons to
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Speaker 1: do some damage to our team.
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Speaker 3: And and I.
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Speaker 1: Think, if anything, whatever the tactical reason for that was,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he had a good one, but I think
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Speaker 1: it's very obviously that didn't work for him.
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Speaker 2: So I'm glad we're starting, And let's talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about fort Christian Pols misses the game with a
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Speaker 2: CAF injury. We'll talk about him much later. The team
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Speaker 2: on the field deserves to go first. But just to
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Speaker 2: set context, and as you say, Tam, Australia, we were
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Speaker 2: gushing about them beating Turkey and what they do really
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Speaker 2: well is defend and Hitch you in transition with Iaran
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Speaker 2: Kunda and Metcalf. We talked to you pre previewed the game.
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Speaker 2: Who were you worried about? Who are the players to watch?
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Speaker 2: Irean Kunda and Metcalf and starting eleven came out and
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Speaker 2: neither of the players were in the we're in the sheet.
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Speaker 2: I waited to put it on social media because I
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Speaker 2: was like, this must be wrong, like there is is
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Speaker 2: he injured, it says he's on the bench. He just
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Speaker 2: must be wrong. After the game, Tony Papovich was was
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Speaker 2: speaking to us and somebody from the Australian dres Sport
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Speaker 2: kind of asked and they asked some very respectful way
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Speaker 2: like what were you thinking or something like that, like
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Speaker 2: and he's he said, did you see the guys out there?
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Speaker 2: That like more or less saying like it's really it's difficult.
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Speaker 2: We knew it was gonna be hard. It's hot out there,
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Speaker 2: you know, I should have made more changes to the
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Speaker 2: starting eleven. And I was like, I mean maybe or
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Speaker 2: maybe just your best player. They had a week between
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Speaker 2: games tap when You're and Kunda came into the second
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Speaker 2: half of metcav two, but particularly You're in Kunda, I
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Speaker 2: think he was a bit of a handful for the
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Speaker 2: US defense, and he was playing through the center, which
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Speaker 2: again I think if he's playing wide, he's going to
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Speaker 2: be better. It's more running for him. But I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I was just that was bizarre to me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and obviously you know, as a coach,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to try to justify, you know, what
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Speaker 1: you were thinking before. But it really when I saw
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Speaker 1: their lineup, it immediately it immediately made me think about
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Speaker 1: those moments, you know, and obviously different context, but it
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Speaker 1: immediately it made me think about those Guardiola moments in
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Speaker 1: the Champions League when hold of this sudden you're like,
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Speaker 1: he's doing great, and then he makes these substitutions and
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Speaker 1: they lose the game and they get knocked out of
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Speaker 1: the Champions League, and you're like, you know, if you
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Speaker 1: would have just left things the way they were, I
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Speaker 1: think you would have been okay. But you know, this
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Speaker 1: was one of those moments. But you know, I want
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Speaker 1: to pull away from Australia here because I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: other than that, nothing else surprised me about this Australia team.
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Speaker 1: But I have to say, you know, what I really
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Speaker 1: liked about US is you know, the Peppi inclusion in
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Speaker 1: the lineup I think was such a key of the
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Speaker 1: way we played.
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Speaker 3: It was super smart, you know, for three basic reasons.
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Speaker 1: One, you know, to to keep one more player in
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Speaker 1: the box, knowing that Australia was going to pack it.
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Speaker 1: The second, to give Balligan that opportunity to get out
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Speaker 1: of the box and go create without having an empty box,
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Speaker 1: still having someone in there and Peppy could stay inside.
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Speaker 1: And then the third would be you know when we
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Speaker 1: have when we had both forwards in the box, you
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Speaker 1: know we still had great options for our wingers to penetrate,
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Speaker 1: right because by having two inside the box, two forwards
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Speaker 1: inside the box, now you're keeping all three center backs
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Speaker 1: busy in there and your wingers can truly be one
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Speaker 1: v one with only the help of probably an outside midfielder.
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Speaker 1: So I think it was smart for many reasons. And
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Speaker 1: then I'll have to add one more thing to that,
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Speaker 1: and I know you'll comment on the Peppi thing, because
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Speaker 1: it was just a great move.
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Speaker 3: I have to add.
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Speaker 1: You know, Sergenio desk unpredictability and the way he plays,
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Speaker 1: he just destroys teams. Because you know, I was watching
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Speaker 1: the game, I was watching the game thing, and I
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Speaker 1: remember coaching ser Gino and thinking, hey, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what he's gonna do next, but neither does the other team.
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Speaker 3: And that's great for us.
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Speaker 1: And you know that's a good that's an easy way
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Speaker 1: to frame.
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Speaker 3: That, but you know it's so hard because he's so
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Speaker 3: good at it. He's so good.
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Speaker 1: At being unpredictable that he's very, very hard to defend.
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Speaker 1: And I think it really showed at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: this game and open doors for us on that right side.
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Speaker 2: Particularly against the team that is so comfortable defending deep
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Speaker 2: and very good at it and very good at frustrating opponents.
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Speaker 2: To have a guy like Desk with his unpredictability, as
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Speaker 2: you say, to have who can do something off the
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Speaker 2: dribble as well, and on that that right flank. McKinney's
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Speaker 2: movement on Friday was unbelievable. Like, first of all, his
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Speaker 2: motor is is insane, but he's so smart and I like,
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Speaker 2: I feel like we knew this, but but maybe I
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Speaker 2: didn't give enough credit for like this. Him and Tilman
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Speaker 2: are the keys to why this all works. There is
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Speaker 2: a ton of really good individual performances, but the secret
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Speaker 2: sauce and what this team has done over these two
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Speaker 2: games is overloading players and it's the movement, and it's
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Speaker 2: smart movement. Again, there was so many times where and
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Speaker 2: then Freeman would kind of pinch up and they'd have
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Speaker 2: this little triangle of Freeman destin McKinney and somehow they
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Speaker 2: always were out numbering Australian players. Anytime they went down
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Speaker 2: that wing, something positive was gonna happen, whether it was
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Speaker 2: death try to dribble, or McKenny making the run behind
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Speaker 2: for a slip pass, or even if they had to recycle,
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Speaker 2: you pulled more Australian defeeders over. So that right flank
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Speaker 2: and again a right flank, I'm talking about a central
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Speaker 2: midfielder because guess what if when they needed him to
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Speaker 2: get touchline to touchline, not even just online anline, McKinney's
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Speaker 2: there too. He was everywhere. Tilman was too. I thought
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Speaker 2: that was that was huge for this and going back
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Speaker 2: to the decision to start PEPPI so I'm very glad
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Speaker 2: the ten of the eleven starters from the win over
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Speaker 2: Paaraguay were the same. The only one that wasn't is
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Speaker 2: Poolsick and he had to be withdrawn because of an
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Speaker 2: injury was not available to play the I guess like
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Speaker 2: for like change or the closest thing to a like
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Speaker 2: for like in some people's minds would be Jorana, and
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Speaker 2: he came on off the bench.
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Speaker 3: She scored.
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Speaker 2: He's not a like for like for me because so
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Speaker 2: Christian pools can run and beat players on the dribble.
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Speaker 2: Jiorana's best quality right now is his like passing through
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Speaker 2: bass technique is very good. He doesn't run by people
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Speaker 2: anymore than ten tim Weya would have been a little
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Speaker 2: bit closer because he can give you that verticality, but
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Speaker 2: he's better when you have more space. I didn't think
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Speaker 2: he was going to start zen Dejas, so I didn't
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Speaker 2: really know where it was going to be. I figured
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Speaker 2: that it was just be the logical one, or the
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Speaker 2: easiest one would be Jiorana because he comes off the
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Speaker 2: Benchi scores. They went with Ricardo Pepe for all the
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Speaker 2: reasons that you laid out. That was the right call,
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Speaker 2: and I think Peppy had a particularly strong game. He
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Speaker 2: was he was a bit anonymous, he was very quiet
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Speaker 2: in the build up, but just his presence was so important.
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Speaker 2: The first goal comes from flow Baligan going out wide
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Speaker 2: and then going in behind. He can't do that if
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Speaker 2: he's playing up top alone and it's jille Rena and
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Speaker 2: Tilman and McKinney underneath him, because he needs occupy the
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Speaker 2: center backs. Peppy was doing that. So while he wasn't
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Speaker 2: necessarily often involved in the build up or he didn't
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Speaker 2: really get the chance that we know that he can
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Speaker 2: score on just his presence and ability to occupy center
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Speaker 2: backs unlock the game for Flow Balgan and others around him.
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Speaker 2: So that was a really smart decision by reason Bunstein
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Speaker 2: on the staff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I you know, as you heard me, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's exactly how I thought, you know, that was that
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Speaker 1: was that was the right move because you know, unlike
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Speaker 1: you you're saying that maybe the next best fit would
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Speaker 1: have been Jie Reina.
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Speaker 3: I was thinking potentially having Hadji.
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Speaker 1: Right there, or just to have or having or having Aaron,
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Speaker 1: and because of his ability to run into press and
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Speaker 1: and and probably to not allow uh, you know, Australia out.
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Speaker 1: Also the fact that he's used to playing high intensity
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Speaker 1: games where everybody's going hard, you know, week after week.
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Speaker 3: So I I thought if it wasn't going to be
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Speaker 3: PEPPI that it that it would.
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Speaker 1: It would be because of from you know, starting from
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Speaker 1: the beginning. You know, I'm not seeing g Orrain as
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Speaker 1: a starter. I'm not seeing g Orraine as as a
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Speaker 1: player that can give you so much time. And because
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Speaker 1: of that, I thought that, you know, how'd you Wright
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Speaker 1: could probably could have played a role in that position.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I was going in a different direction than
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Speaker 1: you were on that. But but uh, but yeah, but
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, Pochettino made
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Speaker 1: the choice, and he made the right one, uh, And
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Speaker 1: he made the one that that helped the team win
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Speaker 1: the game.
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Speaker 3: So that's the most important part.
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Speaker 2: It was a physical or a bit of a physical game.
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Speaker 2: There was seven yellow cards, which was more than any
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Speaker 2: game so far the World Cup at this early juncture.
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Speaker 2: I was asked Tony Popvich and the post game kind
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Speaker 2: of about that. He goes, I don't think it was physcical, Honestly,
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Speaker 2: He's like, I think the referee was maybe too quick
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Speaker 2: to give a yell card or he was more or
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Speaker 2: less saying the referee performance is inconsistent. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that I would totally agree with that, and because I
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Speaker 2: think it was a physical game. But I think these
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Speaker 2: are just two teams that are competitive don't want to
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Speaker 2: back down. There was before flow Balcon got subbed off.
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Speaker 2: Him and Harry Souter were off the ball from These
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Speaker 2: are some of the things that are good about being
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Speaker 2: in the stadium, off the ball, well away from the
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Speaker 2: cameras at all times. In the second half, banging each
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Speaker 2: other like shouldered his shoulder, given like a little extra nudge,
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Speaker 2: a little extra push, student knowing where his hands are.
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Speaker 2: Occasionally they're up near Baligan's face and Ballions to look
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Speaker 2: at that. Dude's a mountain. I don't know how tall
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Speaker 2: he is, but he might be eight feet. He feels
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Speaker 2: like a giant on the field, and Ballians look at
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Speaker 2: it him like I don't care, Like I thought that
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Speaker 2: was indicative of the mentality of this group and a
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Speaker 2: shift in mentality from this group. When they play Australia
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Speaker 2: in the fall, they they got they were getting beat physically,
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Speaker 2: and Poachatino halftime, banging the table, clapping his hands, yelling
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Speaker 2: at the group, trying to galvanize him like they're punching us.
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Speaker 2: When are you gonna punch back? When are we gonna
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Speaker 2: fix this? When are we gonna like he's more or
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Speaker 2: less like I don't care about the before, why are
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Speaker 2: you not fighting? And it's been a shift since that window,
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Speaker 2: because I believe that was the same window as Paraguay.
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Speaker 2: But either way, at some point in the fall where
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Speaker 2: this team got hard and I think that's really really
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Speaker 2: key for where they are right now.
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Speaker 1: Tap, without a doubt, that was that was the biggest
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Speaker 1: change that we saw. We saw that change in attitude.
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Speaker 1: There was there was a moment during this year, over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of months, where we said, I think
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Speaker 1: on this show, we're finally seeing an American team, you know,
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Speaker 1: and and forget about tactics, and forget you know, obviously,
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Speaker 1: forget about the way we play and how you know,
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Speaker 1: how great our players are. Technically, this is our common denominator,
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Speaker 1: This is who we are. This is our DNA, and
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Speaker 1: our DNA is we have to work hard, we have
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Speaker 1: to outwork the opponent. And you know what, if, on
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Speaker 1: top of it, now we have better players, then you
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Speaker 1: have no chance. And that's sort of how I saw
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Speaker 1: these first two opponents, because, as you also mentioned, you know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes the World Cup is about what it gives you, right,
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Speaker 1: So you take the twenty fourteen World Cup, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the group you had Germany and Portugal, right, so
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Speaker 1: in Ghana was the third team. You know, that Ghana
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Speaker 1: team in twenty fourteen was probably as good or better
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Speaker 1: than any of these three teams in our group this time.
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Speaker 1: So now you're not counting Portugal Germany, so so you
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Speaker 1: depend on your group, but you also you know, you
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Speaker 1: also have to do your work on what you're given.
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Speaker 1: And I think this team is taking care of it.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: You know, to talk a little bit about Baaligan, because
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Speaker 1: you started that conversation about Baligan. You know, he's so
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Speaker 1: much more than just a goal scorer, you know, and
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Speaker 1: you mentioned how he's fighting off the ball. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, the first game against Paraguay, if there was
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Speaker 1: one thing we said that I thought really impressed me
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Speaker 1: is how much of a beating he took from behind.
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Speaker 1: If you remember, coming into midfield, he was constantly getting
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Speaker 1: hit from behind and he was getting up every time.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen him argue a call. I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: him get upset. He just sort of rolls off and
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Speaker 1: just gets up and gets going. I think that's a
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Speaker 1: great trait to have. And you know, and against Australia
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Speaker 1: he was able to utilize almost all of his skills,
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Speaker 1: you know, because he wasn't just good in the box,
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Speaker 1: but now he was able to get out of the box,
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Speaker 1: come received defeat at times, go into space. So you know,
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Speaker 1: he's really a complete forward and we're very lucky to
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Speaker 1: have him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well done by the Burholta era to be able
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Speaker 2: to recruit him and everybody at the Federation to make
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Speaker 2: sure that this was where he wanted to be and
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Speaker 2: we're reaping the benefits of that right now.
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Speaker 1: But the wait, let's not forget I'm the first one
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Speaker 1: to bring him to you at soccer on the end
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Speaker 1: of the twenties, were you, yes, sir, that's right, Yeah.
17:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna pivot on this. I can't can't with
17:03
Speaker 2: the background story. When did you guys? Did you guys
17:05
Speaker 2: always know that he was us eligible? Did you try
17:08
Speaker 2: in the past? How did you get him in the camp?
17:12
Speaker 1: Well, we you know, obviously had he was at Arsenal
17:14
Speaker 1: at the time, he was playing for the I think
17:16
Speaker 1: he under twenty once and he might have been eighteen,
17:20
Speaker 1: and it was not easy, but we made calls to
17:23
Speaker 1: him and convinced him that hey, why don't you just
17:24
Speaker 1: come to a camp and see what it's like the
17:27
Speaker 1: type thing. And he came in and he had a
17:29
Speaker 1: great camp. I think it was a tournament we had
17:31
Speaker 1: in Slovenia. I think we beat Japan in the final
17:34
Speaker 1: on penalties. I think he scored one of the penalties
17:37
Speaker 1: to win it. But he had a great tournament and
17:39
Speaker 1: you could tell he was very special already, you know,
17:42
Speaker 1: back then, Yeah.
17:45
Speaker 2: At Arsenal, and he was a big talent, like it
17:47
Speaker 2: was a big English youth international. Wasn't just Arsenal though,
17:49
Speaker 2: when you're at Arsenal, that's big enough. But did you
17:52
Speaker 2: was it known for a while that he had American
17:56
Speaker 2: eligibility or was that something that you guys found out
17:59
Speaker 2: and then oh my god, we gotta get this guy
18:00
Speaker 2: call or like let's let's really put on the pressure.
18:03
Speaker 2: We have a chance here.
18:04
Speaker 3: Well that's that's basically what it was.
18:06
Speaker 1: We found out that there was a possibility because he
18:09
Speaker 1: had been born and he had been born in the US.
18:11
Speaker 1: But don't forget he was he was being cold by
18:13
Speaker 1: England youth national team. So you know, it's difficult. You know,
18:17
Speaker 1: when you get cold by England, you get cold by US,
18:19
Speaker 1: and you have to make that choice and you grow
18:21
Speaker 1: up in England and you're playing for Arsenal, it's much
18:23
Speaker 1: easier obviously to think only one way.
18:25
Speaker 3: So we we basically didn't want to convince him.
18:28
Speaker 1: Uh. The only convincing we did was to to give
18:32
Speaker 1: us an opportunity to show him what we were like
18:34
Speaker 1: and what our setup was like, and and give us
18:37
Speaker 1: an opportunity for one camp and that's all.
18:39
Speaker 2: It was well done, Tap, So thank you on behalf
18:43
Speaker 2: of America. Her No, I'm saying that that the credit
18:48
Speaker 2: for that. Yeah, well you played you played it part.
18:52
Speaker 2: But it's not for ay quick break. We're going to
18:54
Speaker 2: continue talking about this to no win for the US
18:56
Speaker 2: overall Australia. We're gonna talk about Pollo sticks injury, what
18:59
Speaker 2: it means for the third game in the group stage,
19:02
Speaker 2: which incredibly doesn't matter at all. First place is locked up.
19:05
Speaker 2: They will be going to Santa Clara for the Round
19:08
Speaker 2: of thirty two. But we're gonna get into all that
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19:14
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19:27
Speaker 2: Bogert Tabramas we were talking about the US two nail
19:29
Speaker 2: win over Australia. One player that we've basically been yet
19:33
Speaker 2: to mention, tab who I think was man of the
19:34
Speaker 2: match defender Alex Freeman. Alex Freeman scores a goal. It
19:38
Speaker 2: was close range. What I loved about it is ten
19:42
Speaker 2: minutes before maybe Tab he got in, he went for
19:45
Speaker 2: an aerial challenge class head completely accidentally with the Australia player.
19:48
Speaker 2: They both go down, they both need a treatment. He
19:50
Speaker 2: needed to be checked by doctors before getting back in
19:52
Speaker 2: the game again. Probably ten minutes later. Sergenia Death takes
19:56
Speaker 2: a shot off off a set piece. It deflects in
19:58
Speaker 2: the air and there's a scramble in box and Alex
20:01
Speaker 2: Freeman knows I'm gonna stick my face right back into
20:03
Speaker 2: the danger. Didn't hesitate for a second. He gets there
20:06
Speaker 2: right before the goalie. The goalie could have punched him
20:08
Speaker 2: in the head, and I don't think he would have
20:09
Speaker 2: cared because he scored a goal. Yeah, it's initially called
20:12
Speaker 2: all sides and the players go back to their positions
20:16
Speaker 2: because I think because Freeman didn't argue, I think Freeman
20:18
Speaker 2: thought he was off sides. Players go back to their
20:21
Speaker 2: positions and so he's at like right center back. As
20:24
Speaker 2: the referees going to VR, he does the v R side.
20:27
Speaker 2: Freeman starts to celebrate, and then the referee goes like
20:31
Speaker 2: he waits to give an explanation, and you see Freeman
20:33
Speaker 2: put his hands up like, oh no, like I thought
20:35
Speaker 2: there was and he basically just had to say out loud.
20:37
Speaker 2: The goal was given and Freeman went crazy again. So
20:40
Speaker 2: I think he got three celebrations on this goal, but
20:42
Speaker 2: it was it was a really nice moment for uh,
20:45
Speaker 2: just a kid you love to root for.
20:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, first of all, when you're a defender,
20:51
Speaker 1: you'll take three celebrations for one goal. You know, you
20:53
Speaker 1: never know when you're gonna celebrate again. But I tell you,
20:58
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, what what else can we say
21:00
Speaker 1: about him? You know, because I remember back in around
21:04
Speaker 1: November of last year saying I think this kid is
21:07
Speaker 1: going to start at the World Cup. You could just
21:09
Speaker 1: see it coming. You can just see him getting better.
21:12
Speaker 1: And if you and if youth, you know, and obviously
21:15
Speaker 1: we've been watching him more closely, then let's say the
21:19
Speaker 1: average fan because you know, we follow him every week
21:22
Speaker 1: at via Ral as well, and you can see him
21:25
Speaker 1: getting so much better there, So everywhere he is, you know,
21:29
Speaker 1: you just start to wonder. And I know Boschettino had
21:31
Speaker 1: some great words to say about him, about him potentially
21:35
Speaker 1: eventually becoming one of the best in the world. And
21:39
Speaker 1: you can see it coming because he gets so much
21:41
Speaker 1: better week to week that you're thinking, at some point this,
21:44
Speaker 1: this getting better has to slow down, and it just doesn't.
21:47
Speaker 1: And and you know, and what you just mentioned about
21:51
Speaker 1: him almost coming off because of a hid injury and
21:54
Speaker 1: then sticking his head in front of the goalkeeper, those
21:56
Speaker 1: are the typical plays where like almost I don't want
21:59
Speaker 1: to say everyone, but almost every player in the world,
22:02
Speaker 1: Like when you go up against the goalkeeper, your neck
22:04
Speaker 1: gets shorter.
22:05
Speaker 3: You know, you start you start getting smaller. And he
22:08
Speaker 3: didn't at all.
22:09
Speaker 1: He just he just went in head first, when you
22:12
Speaker 1: know that usually in those you get that double punch
22:15
Speaker 1: from the goalkeeper right in the head.
22:16
Speaker 3: And he didn't care.
22:18
Speaker 1: He went He knew that he could potentially get a
22:20
Speaker 1: goal for the team and how important it would be,
22:22
Speaker 1: and he.
22:23
Speaker 3: Threw his body right in there.
22:24
Speaker 1: So, I mean, this kid has everything you would want
22:27
Speaker 1: in a player. He's got great feet, he's got great
22:29
Speaker 1: physical ability to get up and down. You know, he's
22:33
Speaker 1: strong and and then he has the mentality to fight
22:36
Speaker 1: through anything. So I mean, at this point we were going.
22:40
Speaker 3: To have a great player in our hands here for
22:42
Speaker 3: the next ten years on this national team.
22:45
Speaker 2: Then Poachtino brought him in maybe maybe a little early,
22:47
Speaker 2: not a little early bit, but he wasn't somebody on
22:50
Speaker 2: the radar. Right in February twenty twenty five, it's eighteen
22:53
Speaker 2: months ago. He hadn't yet made his first Major League
22:56
Speaker 2: Soccer start. That's think of what he's done in eighteen
22:59
Speaker 2: months from getting his first start in Orlando becoming the
23:04
Speaker 2: clear starting center of right back for them, so much
23:07
Speaker 2: so that Oscar braw changes his tactics because he goes, oh,
23:10
Speaker 2: I've got something special here. We're gonna have a play
23:13
Speaker 2: center back at left back, so that Freeman always attacks,
23:16
Speaker 2: and that was one of the reasons why they were
23:17
Speaker 2: very good. Then he becomes one of the best right
23:19
Speaker 2: backs in MLS very quickly, and then he's in the
23:22
Speaker 2: national team. And so twelve months on from his debut,
23:26
Speaker 2: he's a national team starter and playing for Villa Reale
23:29
Speaker 2: champions Leage CUB and not League. In twelve months Pochettinos
23:34
Speaker 2: he set up in the game the you know he
23:36
Speaker 2: could one day he could be the best in one
23:38
Speaker 2: of the best in his position in the world, which
23:40
Speaker 2: was high praise. He also said Freeman is an incredible
23:44
Speaker 2: human being, like he was. You know, he works so hard,
23:47
Speaker 2: he wants to get better, he listens. I love having
23:50
Speaker 2: him on the field, but he's I love being with
23:51
Speaker 2: him off the field.
23:52
Speaker 3: Like it was.
23:52
Speaker 2: It was really wholesome. And that's the view of Alex
23:55
Speaker 2: Stream and within this team, and I don't know, he's
23:58
Speaker 2: just so so very easy to work to room for,
24:00
Speaker 2: and you love when when those guys have these kind
24:02
Speaker 2: of moments. And now I think the world is getting
24:05
Speaker 2: to know a little bit about our Stream and so
24:06
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. In that game, was not Christian Polisick.
24:11
Speaker 2: He missed with a calf injury, despite Tyler Adams saying
24:15
Speaker 2: I believe that was Monday, their first training session back
24:18
Speaker 2: after the Paraguay game. Relax, he's playing, he's available. And
24:22
Speaker 2: then the days went by and Christian Pulsick was not
24:25
Speaker 2: in training, not in training, not in training, and the
24:27
Speaker 2: lineups come out and he's not even on the bench
24:29
Speaker 2: because of a calf injury tab. Obviously now it doesn't
24:32
Speaker 2: matter for the third game, but Pochattino said he should
24:35
Speaker 2: be expects him to be available. Pochattino said he expected
24:39
Speaker 2: him to be available for this game. So was there
24:42
Speaker 2: any level of concern or or how how does this evolve?
24:46
Speaker 1: No, this actually evolved exactly how I thought it would.
24:49
Speaker 1: You know, they you know when you have a calf injury.
24:51
Speaker 1: Literally we mentioned it in the last show. You know,
24:54
Speaker 1: you can get kicked on the back of the calf
24:56
Speaker 1: and when you tear fibers, if you get kicked hard enough,
24:59
Speaker 1: you it's no different than when you tear a calf running.
25:02
Speaker 3: And so you're looking at a couple of weeks.
25:05
Speaker 1: The good part here is that he likely doesn't have
25:08
Speaker 1: to play the next game either, and so he should
25:10
Speaker 1: be ready for July first, because that is enough time
25:13
Speaker 1: to recover and I think he will be fine then.
25:16
Speaker 1: So by that point he will be training hard. He'll
25:19
Speaker 1: have likely a full week of training hard, or five
25:22
Speaker 1: or six days of training hard. So you know, the
25:24
Speaker 1: important part right now for this US team is July first,
25:27
Speaker 1: and Christian politics should be ready to go.
25:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's another luxury of wrapping up the group early,
25:35
Speaker 2: which so US did everything that in their power that
25:37
Speaker 2: they could, getting six points in a really nice goal difference.
25:41
Speaker 2: The other teams also help take care of it. Where
25:43
Speaker 2: you go to Paraguay and the game the game, it matters.
25:47
Speaker 2: Since it's the World Cup. It has no consequences on
25:49
Speaker 2: where the United States finish. Like you said, Tom, now
25:51
Speaker 2: they are in the round of thirty two. They will
25:53
Speaker 2: be playing in Santa Clara, the stadium of the San
25:55
Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers. They will be playing a third
25:58
Speaker 2: place team from one of five groups. I don't know
26:01
Speaker 2: what all the options are, but as of recording on
26:04
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, the most likely scenario at like fifty is
26:09
Speaker 2: Bossie and Hurtzegovina. So a team like that prob whether
26:13
Speaker 2: it's Bosnia or whether it's somebody else. So it is
26:17
Speaker 2: extremely advantageous to win the group because now you play
26:21
Speaker 2: a third place team instead of a second place team
26:23
Speaker 2: if you finished the second and then the winner of
26:25
Speaker 2: this game likely would be set up to play the
26:28
Speaker 2: winner of Group G, which is Belgium, or which could
26:32
Speaker 2: be Beltum. Sorry, again, the most likely scenario of this
26:35
Speaker 2: and that's a team that I think in the United
26:36
Speaker 2: States taming, But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We'll get
26:39
Speaker 2: to there when we get there. Just wanted to set
26:40
Speaker 2: up the scenarios for everybody. So now they still have
26:43
Speaker 2: to play another game. They play Turkey next week to
26:47
Speaker 2: wrap up the group stage, trying to make a little history,
26:49
Speaker 2: see if they can get nine points in the group stage.
26:51
Speaker 2: But tap. There are players on yellow cards that include
26:55
Speaker 2: Anthony Robinson, Flow Balgan, Tyler Adams, and I think Chris
26:59
Speaker 2: Richards was the other one those four players. They cannot
27:03
Speaker 2: see the field. You cannot risk cut suspension. But how
27:07
Speaker 2: would you approach this game? What do you think again
27:11
Speaker 2: your general approach and then and maybe what your lineup is.
27:14
Speaker 1: Well, you know that's a that's a good starting point
27:17
Speaker 1: because you do have to worry about yellow cards, and
27:19
Speaker 1: remember yellow carts sometimes can happen by accident, and so
27:22
Speaker 1: you don't want to take a chance. This is a
27:24
Speaker 1: great chance for all of those guys that you mentioned
27:26
Speaker 1: to get cleared of yellow cards going into the second round.
27:29
Speaker 1: So right there, for me, you know, right away those
27:32
Speaker 1: guys would be out. So I would make pretty much
27:36
Speaker 1: wholesale changes on the team. That's the way I would
27:38
Speaker 1: look at it. And for many reasons. You know, you
27:41
Speaker 1: you know, as you mentioned that the round of thirty
27:44
Speaker 1: two game will be against a team like Bosnia. I
27:47
Speaker 1: mean hopefully it will be Bosnia, because this is we
27:50
Speaker 1: would be the possibly the worst possible matchup for Bosnia.
27:54
Speaker 1: You know, that's a team that's not necessarily quick, you know,
27:57
Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty much a team that in the
28:00
Speaker 1: is kind of slow. That would be a great matchup
28:02
Speaker 1: for us. So but anyway, we'll get a team sort
28:04
Speaker 1: of like that. I would go into.
28:08
Speaker 3: The wholesale changes here, you know, I would. I would start.
28:11
Speaker 3: I would start with freezing goals just to.
28:13
Speaker 1: Give him one more game and continue for him to
28:16
Speaker 1: to get that consistency in the goal because I think
28:19
Speaker 1: that position is a little bit different than the rest.
28:22
Speaker 1: I would likely go to three center backs and the
28:24
Speaker 1: three center backs I would I would include Trustee and
28:28
Speaker 1: for Reim. I would put in Mackenzie for for Richards
28:32
Speaker 1: would likely keep Freeman in. Does Freeman have a yellow card?
28:36
Speaker 1: He doesn't, right, No, no, yeah, so I would I
28:39
Speaker 1: would keep Freeman in. Uh, you know, he's a young player,
28:42
Speaker 1: he's confident and and you want you don't want, you know,
28:45
Speaker 1: with he had such a high in this game that
28:48
Speaker 1: I think you want him to play the next game,
28:51
Speaker 1: just in case you don't want him sitting on you
28:53
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know. And this is the coach
28:55
Speaker 1: and me thinking, you know, maybe I don't want this
28:57
Speaker 1: players sitting on all that confidence for the next twelve days.
29:00
Speaker 3: You know, let me.
29:03
Speaker 1: Let me just get him back on the field. I
29:04
Speaker 1: think it would be good. So I'm thinking I would
29:06
Speaker 1: go with those three as in the center. I would
29:09
Speaker 1: put Scally on the right and Arfstin on the left.
29:13
Speaker 1: And not that you need to give those guys minutes,
29:16
Speaker 1: but I think there's really no real reason to. You know,
29:19
Speaker 1: so Genio came off of a long injury, he's now
29:22
Speaker 1: played consistently last couple of games. I think it would
29:25
Speaker 1: be good for to save his legs a little bit.
29:27
Speaker 1: In the center of the field, I would definitely go
29:29
Speaker 1: Burrholter for Adams, because I you know, Adams, I think
29:33
Speaker 1: has the rest, He's has the card and all of that.
29:36
Speaker 1: And and probably roll Down only because you know, we're
29:40
Speaker 1: really thin in that area. We don't have anyone else
29:42
Speaker 1: to play, So I would put roll down in this game, and.
29:45
Speaker 3: Then in front, in front of them. I would put
29:48
Speaker 3: Waya and Aaronson just a bit ahead of them, and
29:51
Speaker 3: Peppy up top. That would be that would be my eleven.
29:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I would agree with the generally wholesale change
29:59
Speaker 2: th going back and forth a little bit tab of
30:01
Speaker 2: like should there be a few holdovers from the lineup
30:04
Speaker 2: so that there's at least a little bit of continuity.
30:06
Speaker 2: But like with the twenty six mant and roster, I
30:09
Speaker 2: kind of found myself like feeling bad of like, okay, well,
30:13
Speaker 2: if if Christian Roldand doesn't start this game, why buys
30:17
Speaker 2: in the group? Why did you bring some of these guys?
30:19
Speaker 2: You have to bring twenty six? Right? So I think
30:21
Speaker 2: for me, my eleven looks very similar to years. I
30:24
Speaker 2: would keep freezing goal as well. I wouldn't be surprising anyway,
30:26
Speaker 2: if it's Matt Turner back three of Joe Scaley at
30:30
Speaker 2: the right, Mark McKenzie, Austin Trusty, a midfield four Way
30:35
Speaker 2: at right wing back, Sper Halter roll Down in the middle,
30:37
Speaker 2: Arson at left wing back, and then a front three
30:40
Speaker 2: in some combination of of Aaronson, Haji right and Riccardo Peppy.
30:44
Speaker 2: I liked that we both have Peppy in this team. Again,
30:46
Speaker 2: if Balgan wasn't on a yellow card, I would be
30:49
Speaker 2: I play him at least thirty minutes. So he's in
30:51
Speaker 2: a golden boot race and there is a lot of
30:54
Speaker 2: time between games. And yes he got banged up a
30:56
Speaker 2: little bit, he was in the Wars, but he's on
30:58
Speaker 2: a yell card. I just there's no scenario. I'm thinking,
31:01
Speaker 2: would you risk that? Like I said, it's it's Allagant,
31:03
Speaker 2: it's Richard's, it's Anthony Robinson, and it's Tyler Adams. They
31:08
Speaker 2: don't even put don't even give them a jersey, don't
31:10
Speaker 2: give them cleats. You're not allowed to look at the field.
31:13
Speaker 2: You can't get another yellow card. Right Tyler Adams, after
31:15
Speaker 2: he got one of the Paraguay was asked about like
31:17
Speaker 2: does that change your approach anything? He goes, Dude, I
31:20
Speaker 2: live with yellow cards. This is just part of my game.
31:22
Speaker 2: Like you just kind of gotta trust me as much
31:25
Speaker 2: as I trust Saler Adams. Don't give them a jersey,
31:27
Speaker 2: don't give them cleach for this last game. But we're
31:30
Speaker 2: gonna get into a deeper preview for Turkey on Tuesday,
31:35
Speaker 2: so we'll save all that for them. I have one
31:38
Speaker 2: question for you right now, six points after two games
31:41
Speaker 2: in the group stage, fans are starting to believe there's
31:44
Speaker 2: more optimism around this team than there have been in
31:46
Speaker 2: a very, very long time, and it's well earned because
31:48
Speaker 2: of the performances. How excited should they be? And where
31:54
Speaker 2: are your changed maybe expectations of how far the team
31:56
Speaker 2: could go?
31:59
Speaker 3: Well, how excited should they be? They should be excited,
32:02
Speaker 3: They should enjoy this. This is uh, you know, the
32:05
Speaker 3: you don't forget. You can have a great team.
32:07
Speaker 1: You can be France or you can be Argentina and
32:11
Speaker 1: not win your first two games. You know, it's not
32:13
Speaker 1: easy to win the first two games at a World
32:15
Speaker 1: Cup and it may not happen again for this group.
32:18
Speaker 3: You just never know. Because you depend so much on
32:20
Speaker 3: the draw, you depend so much on the opponents as well,
32:23
Speaker 3: So it's not just you. You know, these guys have
32:26
Speaker 3: to enjoy it.
32:26
Speaker 1: And you know this is one thing that you know,
32:28
Speaker 1: me as an older player, kept saying for the last
32:31
Speaker 1: you know, six eight months, you know, kept telling people, hey,
32:34
Speaker 1: you know, I know you don't hear you're not hearing
32:36
Speaker 1: a lot about the World Cup. But when the World
32:38
Speaker 1: Cup gets here, trust me, everything will be about the
32:41
Speaker 1: World Cup, morning shows, night shows, TV networks, everything is
32:45
Speaker 1: about the World Cup. And I think the players should
32:47
Speaker 1: enjoy that because I think for them, all of this
32:50
Speaker 1: is a huge surprise, you know. And and the support
32:52
Speaker 1: that they have from the country is a huge surprise,
32:55
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, they should enjoy that. And
32:58
Speaker 1: also we should take advantage of that to promote the
33:00
Speaker 1: game even more so that the game grows much more after.
33:04
Speaker 1: So this is this is really a great time for
33:06
Speaker 1: you know, US soccer to promote the players even more
33:09
Speaker 1: and for us to take advantage of all of the
33:11
Speaker 1: people that are on board with with supporting their UH,
33:14
Speaker 1: with supporting our team. As far as what what it means,
33:17
Speaker 1: it means a lot, you know, Tom, You know, I
33:20
Speaker 1: did the Brazil game last night. You know, in Brazil.
33:23
Speaker 1: Brazil played a good game last night, but they have
33:25
Speaker 1: four points. They have to go into the last game
33:27
Speaker 1: not only to win, but to get goals.
33:30
Speaker 3: You know.
33:30
Speaker 1: So you have big, big teams that that still have
33:33
Speaker 1: a lot to play for with a game to go,
33:35
Speaker 1: and the fact that we don't. I think it's just
33:38
Speaker 1: it's just a great sign for where this team is
33:40
Speaker 1: and and UH and what they did with the cards
33:43
Speaker 1: that were dealt to them. You know, that's this is
33:45
Speaker 1: what we did. So you know, I have France on Monday,
33:49
Speaker 1: and France is no different at this point. France has
33:51
Speaker 1: to win their next game, and and and sort of
33:53
Speaker 1: convince people and and and it's so great that our
33:57
Speaker 1: team has already done their homework.
34:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very, very impressive. I agree with all of
34:02
Speaker 2: that sentiment, particularly about what it means thinking about the fans,
34:06
Speaker 2: thinking about the supporters. After the game against Australia, the
34:11
Speaker 2: PA system played Country Roads, the popular song. The whole
34:15
Speaker 2: stadium is singing it, and the press box in Seattle
34:19
Speaker 2: and a lot of these NFL stadiums they have closed windows.
34:21
Speaker 2: I don't like that because I think it is insanely
34:24
Speaker 2: important to feel the atmosphere. That is the emotion. That's
34:26
Speaker 2: what we love about this game. A sidebar, I was
34:29
Speaker 2: in Canada for Canada's six nothing win over Guitar. One
34:32
Speaker 2: of the best atmospheres I've gotten new experience like that.
34:35
Speaker 2: Place ready to explode. The players gave them all the
34:38
Speaker 2: ammunition for the fans, and that kind of happened for
34:41
Speaker 2: the United States Australia. Going back to the end of
34:43
Speaker 2: the game, so closed press box windows. You can hear
34:47
Speaker 2: things outside, but it feels pretty mute that when the
34:50
Speaker 2: stadium is screaming country roads. I felt like I was
34:54
Speaker 2: outside the press but I felt like I was on
34:55
Speaker 2: the concource. That's how loud it was. It was really
34:57
Speaker 2: really cool. But I just want to take a second, say,
35:00
Speaker 2: you know, we need to ask are the Australian media
35:03
Speaker 2: are they did they find that disrespectful that the that
35:06
Speaker 2: the players saying that the crowd's saying. Because I want
35:09
Speaker 2: to be really careful not to be disrespectful to the
35:12
Speaker 2: Australian media after after the last six months, right, like,
35:14
Speaker 2: just want to make sure that all their former players
35:16
Speaker 2: are okay, that the fans and the players sung and
35:19
Speaker 2: enjoy the win. But we should have asked them for
35:21
Speaker 2: permission first, hab is what I think.
35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's funny because because we to be fair,
35:28
Speaker 1: we already spent too much time talking about Australia.
35:31
Speaker 3: But but and you know, and and in the end,
35:33
Speaker 3: I think, you know, and here's the most important part.
35:36
Speaker 1: The most important part is that our players aren't disrespectful
35:40
Speaker 1: towards towards anyone.
35:41
Speaker 3: And that's really what matters, period. And end the story.
35:45
Speaker 1: That's who this team is, and that's who we are,
35:48
Speaker 1: the people following the team, and uh and and again,
35:52
Speaker 1: and I'll say for the last time, I have a
35:54
Speaker 1: lot of respect for what Australia does and what they've
35:56
Speaker 1: done in the World Cup, and for the fact that
35:58
Speaker 1: they're in a great position now to advance one more time.
36:00
Speaker 1: Second World Cup in a row, to round to the
36:03
Speaker 1: second round. Last time was round sixteen. Now it's round
36:06
Speaker 1: the thirty two, right, But I mean this is all
36:08
Speaker 1: great stuff. So I think if you're Australia, you know,
36:11
Speaker 1: you focus on the great young players that you have
36:13
Speaker 1: and on your future. And for us, we've been there already.
36:17
Speaker 1: We're our focus is on something else at this point.
36:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would put them a favorites to get through
36:23
Speaker 2: the Ark his three points that they could get through.
36:24
Speaker 2: But like when they played Paraguaya, I think Australia are
36:27
Speaker 2: a little bit better. But we'll see. I was just
36:29
Speaker 2: taking the low hanging for a joke there. But maybe
36:31
Speaker 2: we'll see a country or maybe that'll become a new
36:34
Speaker 2: thing that they play after wins. Who knows. Maybe we
36:36
Speaker 2: just saw history and a new tradition forming. But tabit
36:40
Speaker 2: sign for one more quick break. Next up, we're gonna
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36:56
Speaker 2: back to Inside American Soccer. Turned out tabas correct about
36:59
Speaker 2: being readed about Christian Pool six's injury, and he was
37:02
Speaker 2: correct about quite a few of his picks for the games.
37:06
Speaker 2: Let's look back here at Tab's drafting picks to see
37:09
Speaker 2: how he did The draftings app now AVELB the nationwide
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Speaker 2: easiest way to get in the World Cup with just
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Speaker 2: one app Tab. England versus Curaza, you said England are
37:17
Speaker 2: going to win. You were correct. That game ends up
37:19
Speaker 2: being four to two England.
37:23
Speaker 1: You know, I get excited about my draft kings picks,
37:25
Speaker 1: Tom because it makes me do homework on sometimes on
37:29
Speaker 1: teams that I don't have to necessarily cover. Yeah, I
37:33
Speaker 1: didn't see as I as I mentioned for that game,
37:35
Speaker 1: I don't see this Croatia team the same as Croatia
37:39
Speaker 1: teams from the past. I think they're they're they're tourists,
37:42
Speaker 1: the end of this generation of players, and and England
37:46
Speaker 1: is going the opposite direction. I think they're they're reaching
37:49
Speaker 1: their peak with the group they have and and that
37:52
Speaker 1: was going to be I thought the whole time that England,
37:56
Speaker 1: which is going to be too much.
37:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, England or one of the same. It's in this tournament.
38:00
Speaker 2: A couple other picks. We had Canada guitar. You had
38:03
Speaker 2: Canada winning. You said one nothing ends up being sick
38:05
Speaker 2: something of the historic day in Vancouver. I was very
38:07
Speaker 2: happy to be there. The other co host Mexico, they
38:10
Speaker 2: played South Korea. You had a draw there in Mexico,
38:13
Speaker 2: fighting to the last second to hold on to a
38:16
Speaker 2: one too. Whin Mexico were also through to the knockout rounds. Canada,
38:20
Speaker 2: I don't know if they've officially clinched, but they'll be there.
38:22
Speaker 2: I believe with four points. I think that the mathematics there,
38:25
Speaker 2: I think is like basically one hundred percent. But regardless,
38:28
Speaker 2: the all three hosts are looking very very good with again,
38:31
Speaker 2: Mexico are first place in their group. Canada has a
38:33
Speaker 2: chance to do the same. And then you had the
38:36
Speaker 2: Turkey Paraguay game. You said Turkey two to one, Paraguay
38:40
Speaker 2: won one nothing. It turns out Turkey or frauds, that's
38:42
Speaker 2: not your fault.
38:44
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I remember I framed this game as
38:48
Speaker 1: the losing coach would lose their job, and as far
38:52
Speaker 1: as you know right now, I don't think that. You know,
38:54
Speaker 1: I think Mantela is still there, but I don't think
38:57
Speaker 1: it's going to be for long.
38:58
Speaker 3: Likely.
38:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't find I didn't see a way that
39:02
Speaker 1: Turkey could lose this game, only because it had such
39:06
Speaker 1: incredible way and I didn't see what the players they
39:11
Speaker 1: had that those players were allowing Turkey to lose this game,
39:14
Speaker 1: and somehow they did.
39:15
Speaker 3: You know, again, they took thirty two shots this game.
39:18
Speaker 1: They completely dominated the game, a game that of course
39:21
Speaker 1: they should have won by two or three goals. But
39:24
Speaker 1: you know, that's two games in a row, sixty five
39:27
Speaker 1: shots in two games, and you have zero goals to
39:29
Speaker 1: show for in your home after two games. So very
39:32
Speaker 1: very tough for Turkey. I think you can see why
39:35
Speaker 1: I picked Turkey, but unfortunately luck was not on their side.
39:40
Speaker 2: No, I think that they're just fraudulent. They if they
39:43
Speaker 2: you know, you're reading to get into it in a
39:44
Speaker 2: few days. But I think if they beat the US,
39:47
Speaker 2: they'll have a puncher stance at getting through. I'm not
39:49
Speaker 2: entirely sure, but well, actually no, no, no, they're not
39:52
Speaker 2: because they would finish their take that back. So we're
39:55
Speaker 2: all running together the expanded tournament and what everything all means. Yeah,
39:58
Speaker 2: they're out. Like said I, I don't know if Turkey
40:02
Speaker 2: said coach is going to get on the plane to
40:04
Speaker 2: go home, that might be your fired will get you
40:07
Speaker 2: a different airline ticket. You're gonna go sit in the
40:09
Speaker 2: middle row, middle seed in row thirty three on a
40:13
Speaker 2: commercial flight. You know, I don't think he's lasted long
40:15
Speaker 2: in that job. And tab the big one US Australia.
40:19
Speaker 2: You called a US win in your DraftKings pick. You
40:22
Speaker 2: were correct.
40:24
Speaker 1: This game went exactly as I thought it would go.
40:27
Speaker 1: I thought we would take a to zero lead and
40:29
Speaker 1: Australia would get a late goal. They couldn't get one
40:33
Speaker 1: in the end. But I think the game was went
40:35
Speaker 1: sort of the same way that we expected on the
40:38
Speaker 1: show here when we talked about it. US had in
40:41
Speaker 1: general a comfortable win.
40:44
Speaker 2: And Australia did have a couple of their chances were
40:47
Speaker 2: in the second half. You're in Kunda, I believe got
40:50
Speaker 2: in behind once there was a penalty shout. There was
40:53
Speaker 2: a really good block and clearance by Tyler Adams from
40:56
Speaker 2: the ground in the box like so it very easily
40:58
Speaker 2: could have been too one, but tap, I think that
41:00
Speaker 2: you got enough right there. Again, that segment was brought
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Speaker 2: to you by our friends at DraftKings, and with that
41:06
Speaker 2: we're gonna look to Turkey. That's it for today, a
41:09
Speaker 2: fortuna win over Australia for the United States in a feud,
41:12
Speaker 2: and next week they are going to play Turkey in
41:14
Speaker 2: the final game of the Group States, a game that
41:16
Speaker 2: is not CONSEQUENTI with the United States whatsoever. They are
41:19
Speaker 2: in the round of thirty two, already clinch their spot.
41:21
Speaker 2: They will be playing early July in Santa Clara against
41:24
Speaker 2: the third place team, or even get into all of
41:26
Speaker 2: that in Turkey and much much more with a show
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