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USMNT Dominates Paraguay! Pochettino's Masterclass & Pulisic Concern · Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogert and Tab Ramos

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  Speaker 1: I think that's the best forty five minutes ever at
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  Speaker 1: a World Cup. I can't imagine that, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: what I've seen, and I think I've seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: over the last few decades, I don't think I've seen
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  Speaker 1: a US team make it look so easy.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to inside American Soccer.
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  Speaker 3: I am USM and T inside of Tom Boger, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm joined by one of the greatest players to do
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  Speaker 3: with soccer history, better than the free World Cups.
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  Speaker 2: But none of his teams have ever scored four goals
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  Speaker 2: in a World Cup match.
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  Speaker 3: Because nobody in the history of the United States men's
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  Speaker 3: World Cup performances has done what the United States did
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  Speaker 3: on Friday Nights open the World Cup tab. How are
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  Speaker 3: we feeling after a four to one win for the
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  Speaker 3: United States over Paraguay.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you know what a great start, right, We couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have asked for a more perfect start, you know, team
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  Speaker 1: with so much intensity. It really represented what we have
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for for a long time. And yeah, of course,
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  Speaker 1: none of my teams scored four goals. I think we
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  Speaker 1: scored two twy. I think we scored two once and
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't wait for the game to be over, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's last night's performance was certainly something else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See, the United States kicked off their journey at the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six World Cup in Los Angeles with a
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  Speaker 3: dominant for to one win over Paraguay.
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  Speaker 2: It was three to zero at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: It was they turned dominance into chances, and they turned
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  Speaker 3: chances into goals. They turned possession into opportunity, and they
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  Speaker 3: also turned all right, we're gonna play the ball forward
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  Speaker 3: and counterpress you because we don't think that even when
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  Speaker 3: you get the ball back, you're gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: get out. They were suffocating. That was the word that
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  Speaker 3: I used. I found myself using over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: Tab I think that was again the game was was great,
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  Speaker 3: but if we even distill it down to just the
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  Speaker 3: first forty five minutes, like that's one of the best
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  Speaker 3: forty five minutes that we've seen from this team at
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  Speaker 3: a World Cup. It's definitely the best forty five minutes
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  Speaker 3: we've seen under Merisa Pochtino. So it's a good time
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  Speaker 3: to throw that one out.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think it's hard to argue that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the best forty five minutes ever at
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  Speaker 1: a World Cup. I can't imagine that, you know. For
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  Speaker 1: what I've seen, and I think I've seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: over the last few decades, I don't think i've seen
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  Speaker 1: a US team.
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  Speaker 4: Make it look so easy.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't happen by chance because there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good movement in there. The ball moved fast
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  Speaker 1: from time to time. When it went to the wingers,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was Desk on one side, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: Polisic on the other side, they immediately took players on.
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  Speaker 1: You had both Tillman and McKinny coming from behind. Paraguay
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what hit him. I mean, they could not
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  Speaker 1: keep the ball for two seconds. We recover the ball
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  Speaker 1: right away. It was just an overall great performance. It
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  Speaker 1: was really everything that you would want from your national
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  Speaker 1: team when you go to a World Cup and Paraguay
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  Speaker 1: just just couldn't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that was what I was most impressed by,
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  Speaker 3: And so I was in stadium in Los Angeles last night.
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  Speaker 3: The support was really really good. For all the jokes
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  Speaker 3: we make about FIFA two, the pregame ceremony wasn't too exorbitant.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid to give them a little bit of credit there,
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  Speaker 3: because give an inch and maybe they'd take a mile,
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  Speaker 3: but credit where credits do. It wasn't over the top.
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  Speaker 3: It was a beautiful day in southern California. It was
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  Speaker 3: a little funny to me that so the United States
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  Speaker 3: kits are red and white horizontal stripes. The Paraguay home
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  Speaker 3: kits are red and white vertical stripes. So everywhere you looked,
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  Speaker 3: it was just a sea of red and white and
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  Speaker 3: you're just trying to figure out which way the stripes
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  Speaker 3: are going. It was more United States fans than Paraguay.
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  Speaker 3: But the Paraguay fans I thought were really awesome to
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  Speaker 3: that stadium. Tab I don't know if you've ever been
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  Speaker 3: to Sofi. I hadn't been to Selfine until last until
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  Speaker 3: Friday night, Like, it's unbelievable in terms of a stadium,
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  Speaker 3: and I gotta tell you, the United States lived up
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  Speaker 3: to it. So just a big picture in general, you're
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  Speaker 3: I guess what does this mean for the team before
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  Speaker 3: we dive into like a detailed analysis and how this
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  Speaker 3: one happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it means that this is this is exactly the
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  Speaker 1: type of you know, confidence that you want to start
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  Speaker 1: a World Cup with. You know, we let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: that you know, it's likely that even with three points,
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  Speaker 1: you get into the second round in this World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: in particular, in particular.
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  Speaker 4: With a four to one win. So big picture here
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  Speaker 4: is is.
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  Speaker 1: That normally, you know, and we talked about this on
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  Speaker 1: the last show, that normally you go to the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup and you just have to play every game like
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  Speaker 1: it's a final.
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  Speaker 4: And of course we will continue.
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  Speaker 1: To do that, but now it gives Pochettino a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a chance to look at his roster and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do I do do I really want to bury my
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  Speaker 1: top eleven guys guys game after game when I have
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  Speaker 1: a certain recovery time, and.
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  Speaker 4: And it looks like we're going to be here for
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  Speaker 4: a little while.
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  Speaker 1: So I like, I think the overall picture that I
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  Speaker 1: that I you know, that I see when I look
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  Speaker 1: at what happened yesterday is I think our team is
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  Speaker 1: going to be at this World Cup for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and and I think this gives us a
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  Speaker 1: chance to pretend actually use our roster a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The only the only pushback I'd say is that because
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  Speaker 3: it's the expanded tournament, there's a full week between games.
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  Speaker 3: So the opening game was Friday, June twelfth. Game number
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  Speaker 3: two is Friday June nineteenth in Seattle against Australia. But
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  Speaker 3: let's stay here a couple quick notes on this game.
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  Speaker 3: Florin Balgan scored two goals, the first time since nineteen
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  Speaker 3: thirty an American men's player has scored two goals in
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  Speaker 3: a single World Cup game. It was a really awesome
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  Speaker 3: first half by Christian Poolistic, and then he exited at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: More than that in the second Gill Rayna comes in
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  Speaker 3: in the second half and scores a delightful travella with
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  Speaker 3: the outside of his foot grabs the ball. So first
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  Speaker 3: he did the celebration when he puts his hands over
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  Speaker 3: his ears, he tells media that was just an inside
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  Speaker 3: joke with my friends.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that looked more like I'm not hearing
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  Speaker 3: the criticism. And then he put the ball in his shirt,
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  Speaker 3: the international symbol for I'm having a baby. So congratulations
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  Speaker 3: to the reign of family for that. But back to
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  Speaker 3: Polistic Poachatino was asked about his status after the game.
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  Speaker 3: Pusik himself was as about a status. Both of them
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  Speaker 3: said this was just precautionary.
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  Speaker 2: He got kicked and he felt tightness in his calf,
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  Speaker 2: like he should be good, Like Postic was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm very confident I'll be good for the next game.
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  Speaker 2: Butchetina said that as well.
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  Speaker 3: But I do want to highlight that maybe this is
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  Speaker 3: just English has the second language lost in translation, Like
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  Speaker 3: I want to be very clear.
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  Speaker 2: It might be this.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the things he said was at halftime,
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  Speaker 3: when halftime finished, he could not walk, could not walk
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  Speaker 3: and just a little knock we were being precautious.
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  Speaker 2: Are two different things. Again, maybe it's just he didn't
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  Speaker 2: pick the exact right.
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  Speaker 3: Words, which is totally fine, But I just want to
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  Speaker 3: put that out there in case that you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday and he's still not training. But overall to both
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  Speaker 3: of them are very confident Pustic will be available for
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  Speaker 3: the second game, which means this is a dream start.
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  Speaker 3: The only cloud was, oh, what if Pulisic is unavailable?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'll start answering all of the things that
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  Speaker 4: you just mentioned by saying I did not play in
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  Speaker 4: the nineteen thirty welcome making just making it clear to
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  Speaker 4: our fans I didn't play in that one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. But but I have to say, you know, starting
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  Speaker 1: with Balligan on this I'll say, you know, we've we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking in this show about how Baligan is a
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  Speaker 1: world class finisher, and I think he's showing it. And
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  Speaker 1: if there was someone who would you know, stand tall
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  Speaker 1: in this World Cup and has a lot to gain,
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  Speaker 1: it would be him because everyone's looking for a goal scorer.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what he showed yesterday was was truly
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  Speaker 1: quite the performance, and not just because of the goals.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you always judge a forward, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with goals, but but man, he took a
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  Speaker 1: beating yesterday, you know, defenders behind me. He was constantly
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  Speaker 1: being hit, he was constantly making runs. I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't give him any more accolades for what he
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  Speaker 1: what he did last night for this team. Now let
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  Speaker 1: me move on, because I'm sure we'll talk about all
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  Speaker 1: the players, but let me move on to Polisic.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say, this is a this is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a red flag, tom Uh. You don't come out
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  Speaker 1: of a game at halftime because you're a little tight.
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  Speaker 1: I think if Polisic got kicked in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the calf, it's likely and obviously I'm not a doctor,
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  Speaker 1: but but I've had every injury many times over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. Sometimes sometimes, Yeah, you can get kicked in
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  Speaker 1: the back of the calf and you can tear some
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  Speaker 1: fibers and if you do that takes a little while
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  Speaker 1: for recovery. That's that's like a muscle tear that happens
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  Speaker 1: not on the run, but because of a kick.
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  Speaker 4: It could be a toe to the back of the calf.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm gonna raise the alarm a little bit
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  Speaker 1: on this because I you know, I'm i tend to
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  Speaker 1: believe at this point that it's something that's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more than just a little bit of tightness.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was again when my ears perked up
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  Speaker 3: when Folksino said reseaid in the press conference, and again
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  Speaker 3: that was in the middle of like, oh, you should
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  Speaker 3: be fine, you should be fine. But he also said
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  Speaker 3: he kind of picked up a knock in training and
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  Speaker 3: like in the same spot, and I think he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to say, well, if you know, that wasn't that.
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  Speaker 3: But but like you said, Tad like with seven days
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  Speaker 3: ago between games and Polistic is a gamer like if
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  Speaker 3: and we all knew when he like physically had to
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  Speaker 3: go to the hospital when he scored that goal with
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  Speaker 3: his crotch against Iran At at the last World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: There's video from the locker room or but like in
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  Speaker 3: the documentary that's like he's delirious, like he barely knows
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  Speaker 3: where he is, and he's like fighting with the doctors.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm fine. I told you, I'm fine. Like,
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  Speaker 2: let me walk it off. I want to go back
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  Speaker 2: in the game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I think that if it was just a
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  Speaker 3: little tightness, or I think that maybe he was saying
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  Speaker 3: that last night. My whole point is that I don't
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  Speaker 3: think he's soft. I think that I think that he
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  Speaker 3: that he would have done everything to get back in
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  Speaker 3: the game. But again, I don't want to speculate too
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  Speaker 3: too deeply. We can we can talk more about about
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  Speaker 3: Balgin tab because I think that was the other big
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  Speaker 3: part to come out of this game. Okay, Pulistic sets
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  Speaker 3: up the first goal. The first goal is an own goal,
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  Speaker 3: But the attacking movement and the attacking combinations were so
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  Speaker 3: very good on Friday night and Balgain scoring those two
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  Speaker 3: goals and two goals in different ways. One was that
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  Speaker 3: both were very good finishes, but one was more of
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  Speaker 3: like a timing movement, and another one was movement take
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  Speaker 3: a few touches and rip one into the upper corner
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  Speaker 3: with your weak foot. And this is what we all
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  Speaker 3: I kind of dreamed of when the United States put
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  Speaker 3: on the full court press and recruiting to get Floren
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  Speaker 3: Baligan to commit to the United States after being a
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  Speaker 3: high level England youth international.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, without a doubt.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he he has been doing his homework,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you know, we we only have
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  Speaker 1: to look back about a year or a little bit
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  Speaker 1: over a year where we thought who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: our number nine, like we we don't really have someone
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  Speaker 1: who's you know, setting the standard for number nine, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And and and he did and by the way, he
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  Speaker 1: did it in the Champions League. He did it in league.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so he you know, this is this is not new.
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  Speaker 1: He's been scoring for for a while now, consistently. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't it a couple months ago that he scored
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  Speaker 1: in like eight or ten.
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  Speaker 2: Or twelve straight games?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he he is doing it, he h and
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  Speaker 1: he continues to do it. And and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Peppi is not a bad backup to have either, so
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  Speaker 1: we we have some good options right now. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly Balligan puts himself, he puts himself at the
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  Speaker 1: top right now.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously he's the leading scorer at the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: You had a bad not a bad place to be
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, hopefully he continues that and with
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  Speaker 1: the games we have coming up, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: he will add to that tally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, pretty good feeling for Flow to go to
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  Speaker 3: sleep as the Golden boot leader at the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if it's day two of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: I would be uh, I'd be very excited about that
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  Speaker 3: if I was him. But again, I really can't say
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  Speaker 3: enough about his performance. And speaking with the players after
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  Speaker 3: the game, it's like not just were they glowing about
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  Speaker 3: his goals and performance, Like I think Wes McKinney was saying, yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 3: we all know how great Flow is and you see
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  Speaker 3: it at the World Cup. Everybody steps up to the
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  Speaker 3: fullest and maybe sometimes they show you stuff that they
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  Speaker 3: don't normally see. And he goes like he wanted to highlight.
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  Speaker 3: He was getting into every challenge, running after every ball
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  Speaker 3: defensively like he wanted to highlight yeah, the goals, but like, like,
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  Speaker 3: look at what he did off the ball against the ball,
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  Speaker 3: and like that was very important. And I just think
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  Speaker 3: again with a total package, and these were a lot
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  Speaker 3: of questions that we had about this team. And hecktab
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  Speaker 3: going back a few days, it's like, hey, this Paraguay
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  Speaker 3: team is very good defensively because they are, and it
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  Speaker 3: was well, are they going to be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Unlock the key?
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  Speaker 3: And again particular in the first half, like I don't
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  Speaker 3: remember Matt Free touching the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that he did, I don't remember it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember Paraguay completing a pass in the United States half.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they'd had a couple, but I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: a single one of them. And that just goes to
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  Speaker 2: the collective of this team. So Pochatino after the game
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  Speaker 2: refused to talk about any individual player.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was a little bit weird because you
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  Speaker 3: want to give your praise to Polistick, to Balgain, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and he goes, no, it's about the collective.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the collectives.
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  Speaker 3: Because somebody asked them about Balgain and then somebody asked
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  Speaker 3: them about Poosick, and he goes, you guys are going
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  Speaker 3: to try to make me talk about individual players.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is about the collective.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Polistic was great, and then he goes you Baligan,
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  Speaker 3: he was great till him and he was great, and
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  Speaker 3: tab I swear he named twelve players.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was trying to name off the top.
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  Speaker 3: He said, every player enter the game to prove a point, like,
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  Speaker 3: yes he was awesome, Yes he was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can we talk about the team. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about individuals. And that was kind of indicative
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  Speaker 2: of the performance.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes sense because this is what he's been saying, right,
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  Speaker 1: He's been trying to build a group, which we've had
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  Speaker 1: trouble identifying what his group is going to be because
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  Speaker 1: there was so much change. But here we are and
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  Speaker 1: he's sticking to his word, and at this point you
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  Speaker 1: can tell that everybody is everybody's on board, and you know, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back a little bit here and mention a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the magnetit of the World Cup here,
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  Speaker 1: although it may not fit exactly into what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: I really like the reaction of the team overall, considering,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the amount of pressure that was because let's
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  Speaker 1: not forget you know, we have. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: good players. Our good players are used to playing in
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  Speaker 1: big games, but there's really nothing like the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: You know, your whole country is watching, the world is watching.
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  Speaker 1: Every league stops so that they can watch you. And
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  Speaker 1: these are big, big games. And our team, i feel,
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of pressure on and I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't show it.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't show it, and that you have to give
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  Speaker 1: a lot of credit for that, a lot of credit
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  Speaker 1: to the preparation of this game, because this team came
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  Speaker 1: out flying and although it looked like Paraguay try to
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  Speaker 1: come up start the game a little bit higher and
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  Speaker 1: press the ball, which by the way, was a good
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  Speaker 1: idea for them, because there's a weakness that we have
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  Speaker 1: is maybe playing out of the back, so putting a
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  Speaker 1: little but they just and do it. They couldn't deal
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  Speaker 1: with us, they couldn't deal with the movement that we had.
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  Speaker 1: And it was just an incredible performance all around.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: An absolute dream start to the World Cup.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Tab But we got to take a quick break and
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: we're going to talk about Geororana and his goal of
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: the event. We're going to talk about the midfield movement.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about Chris Richards. We're going to talk
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: about so much more. So stick around. We have a
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: very very quick break. Please rate, review, and subscribe to
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogran and Tab Ramles wherever
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: get for fives. Welcome back to Inside American Soccer. Talking
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: about a dream for one win over Paara White to
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: start the World Cup for the United States. So we
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: talked about the big picture, We talked about individuals, particularly
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Pussick and Balgin. For me, I think this game was
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: kind of dominated, and maybe not one because that would
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: be a little bit disrespectful to Balgin and his final
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: their quality, But this game was dominated by the midfield,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Tyler Adams sitting at the base, Mollie Tilman and Westeron
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: McKinney interchanging and going forward. What did you make of
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: not even just the performance, but the way that those
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: three interpreted space and fluidity to overwhelm Paraguay kind of
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: at every turn.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I think that's a you know, it's a good way
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: to frame it, and it's hard to start from that
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: point though, because I do want to separate a little
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: bit what Tyler Adams did and what McKenney and Tilman
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: did right. So Adams we've been asking for a long
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: time when he comes to the national team. Now we
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I would say, in general, fans have been asking almost
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: too much from Tyler Adams, right. They want him to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: get involved in the attack. They want him to And
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I thought yesterday Tyler Adams played the perfect game. I
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: thought he was involved just enough, he recovered the ball
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: just enough, and he got the balls to the right
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: guys at the right time. And that's what he's supposed
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: to do. And I thought he played the perfect game yesterday.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Now let me let me move over to McKinney and Tilman,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and I will say this.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: I think Tillman, you know, started falling apart.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: In the last fifteen minutes, But up until the last
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of the game, McKinney and Tillman had absolute
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: master classes of how to play those positions. It's the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: best I've seen US midfielders ever play those positions. The
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: timing of their runs, you know, the level of consistency
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: of their runs, the way they delay at times to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: let one go another one stay. I think when you
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: when you put it all together and you recognize that
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know Puschettino through death White on one side, Polisic
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: White on the other side, and at times you even
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: had Robinson cut straight across the middle. And then and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: then Tilman recognized that they were having trouble recognizing Robinson
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: coming straight up the middle, so he decided to add
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: himself into which put Paraguay in a situation where they
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: just couldn't cover them. And and I think that just
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the level of intelligence of McKinney and Tilman in this
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: game was like I have not seen before in US
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: midfielders that get into the box.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: That is unbelievably high praise coming from you. And that's
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: how I viewed it as well. Again, that means about
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: ten percent of it coming from tab Ramos coming from me.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: But I thought, I thought the intelligence was so good,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: particularly between Tilman and McKinney. Obviously Tyler Adams, but Tilman
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and McKinney was more of Okay, you go, I stay,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: or we both go, or when we both go, who's
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: gonna be furthest back in case the ball turns over,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: So from the press box, which is as it should be,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: all the way up so that all the expensive seats
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: can be bought somewhere else, and you go all the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: way up.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: But anyway, it serves as like a really good tactical camp.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: And what I noticed in the first half the three
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: center backs in possession with Alex Freaman tucking in, they stayed.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Sometimes tab you build with the two like you built
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: with the three center backs and then two in the midfield,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: so that when the ball turns over. But what they
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: were doing is it was three Tyler Adams in front
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: of them.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Everybody else forwarded. And when you do that, you have
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: to have super intelligent midfielders and obviously industrious ones too.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And after the games, McKinney was telling us that like, yeah, me,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Tyler and Malik, just the three of us, like not
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: in the coaches meeting, Like just the three of us
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: talked before the game, Okay, in these situations, this is
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: what our movement should be. And you could see it
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: on the field.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: And after the game, gustavol Faro, the Paraguay coach, was
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: talking about He's like like they were everywhere and we
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: did not deal with it well enough, and like he
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: was giving credits particularly to those three guys. One of
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: his quatches was like, once we had the ball, there'd
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: be quick pressure from the US their defenders are always
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: more ready than our forwards the game. We knew the
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: game was going to be complicated. The United States a
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: very good team, but we didn't find an answer. We
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: should have found an answer. And I think that's really
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: high praise to come from the opposing coach Tilman. Like
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Tillman also thanks Pochatino that like, yes, I need to
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: be deeper defensively, but if I do that, he gives
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: me the freedom to get forward to impact the game
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the way that I want to in the attack. So
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: ten out of ten for that group, honestly and particularly
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: having the balance, but tap not to we've been extraordinarily positive.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Life isn't a walk in the park. Life isn't a
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: four to one win. Life isn't three to oho. At
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: halftime every single game, I have to ask, is there
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: any worry against even Turkey? Rather than going further to
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: a Belgium, to a Portugal, to an Argentina to an England, whoever.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Is this trio?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Will this work against somebody like Turkey? Or because the
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: United States had like seventy five percent possession against Paraguay
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: that this looked better than maybe it would against a
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: better team.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Well, we will depend on this. Tom will depend on
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: when we meet a team that can connect passes when
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: under pressure, sort of like Germany did in the last
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: game where we paid thresh around Germany, we made them
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: turn the ball over, but at times when Germany figured
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: it out, they connected a couple of quick passes, found
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the other side and got out. And Paraguay didn't have
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the ability to do that, to connect the first three passes.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So you connect the first one and the second one
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: is a turnover. You connect the first one and the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: second one is a turnover. No, but this is this
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: is what happens with teams that are just not strong
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: enough on possession, with real quality players who can hold
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: possession at at a high level at high speed. You know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I think our issue will be once we meet a team,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and Paraguay may be the first one. I don't think
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Australia will be that team, although Australia will likely you know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: with what Australia just saw, Australia will fight, probably a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: lot more than Paraguay did. But Australia doesn't have the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: players to be able to do that. And Turkey has
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a couple of players that can break you down a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: little bit so that that may be where, you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: because don't forget that you know you're talking about can
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: can McKinney and Tillman do the same thing against other teams? Well,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you're depending on having the ball on the attack third
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of the field really, so if you have another team
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that is taking the game to you a little bit more,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: then you'll have to be a little bit more conservative
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: because both McKinnie and Tillman have to defend. I mean,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: there's other players that defend if you don't have the ball.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: So so I think that's where our issue runs. But
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I'll go back to this when you say, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's not all sort of like, it's not all fun
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and games, but let's enjoy let's enjoy a on games
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: because because we've been I feel suffering for a little
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: while now, and and it was so nice to see that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It was it was so nice to go to sleep
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: last night knowing that we watched what we watched.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: It was funny like looking on social media sometimes in
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: the games and seeing people like like maybe casuals were
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: like oh like well you of course like this, like
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: what are you talking about? And I'm like, yeah, maybe
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: if you just started watching this team from the Senegal
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: friendly like or like forty five minutes said it was like, yeah,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: there was no this performance. There was no indicators that
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: this level was coming. Maybe there were some positives, but
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I was like, over the last year and a half,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: if either of us said, like, you know what I
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: expect to have. I expect seventy five percent possession three
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: zero in the first half, you'd be like, okay, cool,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Like I expect seventeen nothing.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Let's just say things that have no that have no precedent.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: So just an unbelievable performance and a great time to
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: have it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Same thing for.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Chiorreana Giorna off the bench, a little cherry on top
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: at the end of the game.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Beyond just his goal.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: One thing that I noticed, I don't know if the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: TV cameras got this or not. So he got fouled
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: a couple of times, one of which like kind of
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: got raked down his achilles and he was pissed off
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: about it, Like you saw him punching the ground like
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sure the cameras got that. He was looking for contact.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: After that, I think he was like, all right, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: next guy comes through, just kid him. He like kind
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: of went shoulders, shoulders somebody and then off the ball.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I watched him look for the guy who kicked him,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and they both like the pengguind players saw him coming
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and they both came together and like drawing at each
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: other forty yards behind the ball, like it was the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: ball turned over, United States were going forward. Thankfully, Tyler
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Adams is nearby separated both of them on the run
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: and then Tyler Adams outran both of them to get forward.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: But so like Geo, you could tell like he was PI,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: he's pissed, and like I liked him showing the fight.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: That was about a minute before he scored his goal.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: So a good few minutes for Geo there, Tad, what
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: did you What did you make of this goal, this
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: this cameo off the bench and maybe what it means
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: for him going forward at this tournament.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we you and I like that, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: because we talked about way out sort of doing the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: same thing in the last game. You know, where he
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: came in. He had a little bit more intensity because
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: he didn't start, And I think Geo wants to earn
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: his minutes, and I think sometimes you do it by
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: showing the coach that you really care and like you're
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to fight.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Anybody for the team. You're doing it for the team.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so I, you know, this is sort of
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: what we expected a little bit from Geo, and we
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: mentioned it before the last show that we thought, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: in these games, in particular, when we're playing the games
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: on the attacking third, that he's going to be useful
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: because he's got that great skill and he can he
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: can find a pass or he can you know, he
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: can take a shot on goal and score. Yesterday, he
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: scored a beautiful goal that was, you know, like you said,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: at a cherry on top to the game. And that's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you know, and by the way, way the four to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: one is a much better reflection of what the game
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: was than the three to one that we were watching
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: at the end. So I think it was fair that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: we scored that fourth goal. And let's see if if
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: this helps his confidence. I still don't see physically that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: he can cover ground well, but but it may not
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: make a difference if we have the ball in the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: attacking third the whole time. It's only going to make
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: a difference if it becomes a transition game.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and pulling up I did get some physical data
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: from the game last night, and obviously total different covered
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: like that's he wasn't on the field long enough. His
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: max speed was again kilometers, I don't know what's twenty
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: five and a half kilometers power. The only person who
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: had us lower top speed on the United States is
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Matt Freeze. But again, if he's if he's playing passes,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: if he's scoring like that, it's technique like if you
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: have enough runners around him, that that's fine, but that
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: that is something like just to further your point there, TAB,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: so really good for Grana. Congrats to the raian of
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: family welcoming or expecting a child. He was saying after
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: the game, was looking for the right time to announce this,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: not a bad time TAB to do it. There a
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: couple more here, Chris Richards. I thought he was very
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: good his ability in possession, but like anytime there was
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: a fifty to fifty or anytime there was Paraguay was
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: trying to relieve pressure and play it forward. Richards felt
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: like he was gonna win it. He didn't misplace a
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: single pass something like eighty three for eighty three or
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: in that range the first time I think since nineteen
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: sixty six that somebody played so many passes at a
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: World Cup without failing to complete a pass. So that's
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: a nice little trivia staff for Chris Richards. But Richards
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and the defense, you know, they weren't super.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Tested, but they had a large part in putting out
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: those fires before they got tested.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And that's a good point because this is exactly we
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: talked about this in the past. When you're a high
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: pressing team, you really defend on your center backs being
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: focused enough to not allow the ball to come out.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And I thought Reim did a great job. I thought
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Richards did a great job, and so did Freeman. On
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the other side, I thought those guys did not allow
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Paraguay to breathe. And then whenever they thought that Paraguay
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: was likely going to get through our line to play
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the ball out, those guys stepped right in front right away.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So I thought, you know, you you can't press high
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: if your center backs aren't fully focused on this.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: And I thought I did a great job.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I think so too.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I think all three of them were fearless as well.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: So again, to a man, a very very good start.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Potato Tapp, what were your thoughts on his setup, his
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: game plan, his lineup, any anything you want to go there.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Of course, because it's the first time we guessed the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: lineup in two years. Yeah, it was the first time
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: we got the lineup right for the first time.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: We had never done that before. So I'm really happy
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: about it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And uh and I think, yeah, everything is great right now.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You know, No, but you know, talking a little bit
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: about tactics, he certainly got the tactics right. You know.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: We mentioned at the fact that we knew we were
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: going to have the ball, but he also knew that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: by having the ball, you have to move the ball
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: quickly because a team like Paraguay, who has such great chemistry,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: who plays so well together in the back, you can't
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: give them time to set up.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: And we never did.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: We either attacked, you know, as soon as the ball
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: went to Policic on one side, he went one v one.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: As soon as it went to desk he went one
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: v one. When he pulled the ball back, McKinney came
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: running through, Tillman came running through. I mean, we did
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: not give Paraguay any time whatsoever to set up their
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: defense and sort of watch the ball move from side
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to side in front of them. They just couldn't do it,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and that has to give You have to give the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: coach credit for that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I agree. I got a lot of praisers to go around,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: a lot of earned praise for this team. But we're
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: going to take a very very quick break and next
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: up we're going to look ahead just a little bit
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: to that Australia game and how the team will prepare
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: and focus over the next few days. So thank you
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: for listening to Inside American Soceery. Please rate, review, subscribe, eat,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to Inside American Soccer. For one United States
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: over Paraguay, they are going to enjoy it, at least
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: for a little bit. Plow Balgan told us that I
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: don't know, maybe I'm gonna watch some Netflix, because that's
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: just the kind of guy he is.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: He's you wouldn't know if they won five no or
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: lost five no. That's how he is.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: But Tab in general, after a win like that, incredible day,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: far beyond what we could have reasonably expected, and even
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: for the team, no matter how high their expectations are
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: for themselves.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: So what do you do in the locker room? Tab?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: As a coach, what do you do the next morning?
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: In recovery?
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: When does it go from celebration, well done, but hey
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: let's stay hungry, to okay, put that out of your
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: mind and it's time to prepare for the next game.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: How how quickly does that happen? And what do you do?
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Well? You know, we have to specify that there's a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: big difference between playing in a final and winning a final,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: win the tournament's over, where you can actually celebrate, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: when you're in the middle of a tournament, right, because
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, this was just the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: first game. So I do think that obviously the players
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: celebrated a little bit back if I'm guessing what happened,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: they would go back to the hotel. They celebrate a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: little bit. You know, obviously they're happy about it. But
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you know, tom the night of the game, you have
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys that made a lot of effort,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and it's really important to recover, and part of that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: recovery is getting the proper nutrition, to get all the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: right fluids in your body. All of those things are
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: part of this tournament and this is just the first game.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: So I would imagine if I had.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: To say, of course they had they had a little
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: fun last night, but it wasn't necessarily if I had
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to guess a celebration of something that happened, it was more, Hey,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you know, this is part of the picture. We keep
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: our eyes on the goal, which is at the end
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of the tournament, which is six weeks from now.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: And that's where we want to get to.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And as part of that, you know, we got to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: get a good sleep tonight, we got to get good nutrition,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of fluids, and tomorrow we're ready for a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: night recovery day so that we can start thinking about Australia.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: So the recovery day is still lightheart obviously it's a
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: super light session for the guys who played. That'll be lighthearted,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: that'll be fun. So that'll be what that'll be Saturday Sunday.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I don't it might be a day off for the players.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not entirely sure, but my general points have is
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: that so recovery day you're still you're starting to focus
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: on and prepare, but you're probably still light, jovial, laughing.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: That first session after is that when it's okay, I
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: don't want to talk. I don't want to hear a
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: word about Paraguay. Everything's about Australia.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt Paraguay is over and until we
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: played Paraguay in another World Cup, we don't really even
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: have to mention them again except for the fact that
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: this is the best game we've ever played. So we
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: will always talk about this game. But but but no,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: we certainly the team will put that behind and I
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: think you you framed it correctly there. Tomorrow will likely
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: be you know, a day or the day after the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: game is usually a day in which, you know, the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: the the players who play, we'll have full recovery day,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the players who didn't play will have a hard session,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and then the following day is normally a complete day
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: off for everybody. You know, it gives you a little
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a little time to clear your mind, to go out
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: for coffee, to do things that you normally do in life,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to take a little bit pressure off. And you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: some guys play golf or they do you know, whatever
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: it is that they do, and just to get a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: little bit away from it.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: And then the next day you come back and.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: It's full Australia mode.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Here we go as hard as we can go.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: And that's usually that's usually how the schedule works.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense, particularly the mental side of it
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: was a long tournament. It was a long season for
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: all of these guys in Europe. So particularly having a
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: maybe a free day or a freer day after a
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: big win, I think is gonna be a little bit
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: better feelings for the players who get to hang out
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: with their families, probably mostly on that day. I'm sure
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: that'll be better for the families too, the way that
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: they'll be. But Tad, we're gonna dive into the Australia
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: deep preview. We're gonna set that game up in a
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: few days in a later episode, So again, rate review
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: and subscribe. We'll have you for that. But for right now,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: we talk about the earning elevens. Do we think run
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: back that same eleven or do you have any big
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: changes that you want to make.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I think if everyone was healthy and you were able
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to take guys off, because a four to one win
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: in a tournament where likely three teams from the group
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: go through is a little bit different than other tournaments,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I would look at a couple different things here, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I would say three things. Number one, Polisic and seeing
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: where he is right, you certainly don't want to take
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the chances by playing Polisic in the second game if
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you don't have to at all, right, So that's something
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to consider. The second one is how's Richards doing right?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Because he hasn't played. He hasn't played for over a month,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you know, Now he played a ninety minute game. Is
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that someone that you can potentially say, even though I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: know there's a lot of days in between, I think
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Richards could probably lose use a little bit more recovery
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: now that he played a ninety minute game. So I'm
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: just saying that could be a player to consider flipping
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: if you know, if the time is right, because you
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: know that you're going to be here for a little while.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: And the third one is plow Baligan. I have to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: tell you, and not because he deserves to come off,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: because I want him to stay on and to lead
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the tournament scoring. But you know, yesterday he got beat
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: up pretty good. You know, anytime he came back to receive,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: he was getting hit, and you have to protect your guy.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is for me. This is one of
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the hottest forwards in the world right now, and we
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: want to protect them, so you know, And by the way,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I only say that because I know that Peppi is
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a right substitution, and Peppy can do a good job, right, So,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and you can put Peppi in one half and bring
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: battle into the second half, right. So I would consider
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: those three as potential things that I would be thinking
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: about if I was coaching the team.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: But what would you is that just for conversation, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I trust that you would genuinely be thinking of that
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: push comes to job, would it be the same eleven
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: or would you make one of.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Those everything being okay, I would keep it the same.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I want this set to develop together and not change
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a thing. You know, Let's keep going. Let's keep having
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: those same movements that we did. Maybe a little bit
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: a few tweaks for the Australia team because Australia will
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: be a little bit different than Paraguay. But but yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: not much to change at this point.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: And again we're gonna get much much deeper in to
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: this on Tuesday. But just to leave it with Australia,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: they are a very physical team. If you remember, that
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: was the game that Poulsick had to be substituted out
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: in the first half because he got kicked about fifteen
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: times and finally picked up a bit of a knock,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: so everybody has to be there and ready to go
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: and for flow Balgan table like Like you said, I
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: wouldn't mind seeing how long you could stay near the
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: top of the goal scoring charts. And Australia, which again
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: they are not an easy team to play. It's going
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: to be difficult all the things you have to say. Objectively,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: if there is a worst team in this group, this
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: group is very Even if there's the worst team in
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: this group, you'd probably say it's them, maybe Paraguay now
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: for this game, but we'll see how it goes. All
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: that being said, why you could rotate if I'm thinking
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: about a Balgon. Yeah, man, I want to play every
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: minute that I can at this World Cup. But again,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about this game in depth. I don't
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: want to use all my three halfway interesting points here,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: save them for the next show. But Tab, speaking of
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: some interesting and salient points, let's check back in on
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: your Draft King picks to see how you did. The
• 36:20
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• 36:22
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• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Tab.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Last episode, we ran you through a few games and
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: you did pretty pretty well. Mexico South Africa. Mexico won
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: pretty handedly. You said that South Africa struggle at the Esteca,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: and boy they did.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: By the way, let me tell you, I really enjoy
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: this Draft Kings segment and I did, and I did.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I think I did pretty well. Other than the last
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of that. You know that check game, that
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: check your game that they were winning, and they lost
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: in the last fifteen.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Minutes, I would have got it all right.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And so hey, listen, here's the thing. Sometimes I know
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I think it's all the time. Tab So yeah, the
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: first four games of the World Cup were underwaite time.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Just feels crazy to be But again, Mexico, South Africa,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: South Korea, Checchia South Korea one two one.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: But like you said, Checchia was rolling for a while.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: In that game.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Canada versus Bossi and Herzegovina won one draw that was
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: exactly right in the score prediction. The scenes in Canada,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: by the way, oh my god, they were incredible, the
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: pre match walk, all the red smoke, Canada. The nation
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: was really met that moment, so that was very cool.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And then of course the United States you had to
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: win as well. I can't believe you.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Didn't predict for one. I don't know where you were
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: on that one, coach, but I don't know.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah I did.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I did the two zero and if gior Reina didn't
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: ruin it in the end, there would have been three one,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: which is still the plus two. So I was I
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: was right there in that game too. But yeah, but
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: you know, going back to Canada there and there're one one,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: let's remember that. I think that's Canada's first point ever
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: at a World Cup. So big, big day for them
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: as well, they all they didn't get to win.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny, like I have like a little bit
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: of mixed feelings on that, because they should celebrate, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I'm a big proponent of celebrate your wins, like we
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: all everybody wants to win the World Cup and that's
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: the standards. But like you getting a point for Canada
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: first time ever in a World Cup.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: The other side of that is.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Canada probably view to opening match against Bosi and Herzegovina
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: as this is probably my best chance to get tipick
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: up points and like, hey, like if we want to
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: make a statement. So it's like weird too, like they should,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: like the country should be celebrating and like kind of
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: locker room you probably like, I feel like we'll have
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: two points on the table.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they should feel that way because Old Bosnia
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: had to offer in their game was two throwings. That's
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: all they had. They had one day scored on and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: another one where they almost scored. Other than that, they
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: did nothing else to win. That game in Canada unfortunately
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: created a bunch of chances and was just not not
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in particular won by Jonathan David in you first half
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that he should have just tucked away in the corner.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: But they had quite a few chances. But fortunately Kyle
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Laren came in and uh and gave them the tie.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It was good to see.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: It's good.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: That was a good Hey. One one more one more
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: random non sequitar question.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: The mistaken identity Uh, the va R check that took
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: away a y'all card for Tim Riam and gave a
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: y'all card to Miguel Moro for Dive. What did you
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: make of that? I like forgot that that was that
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: was a possibility in this tournament.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It made me look for my wallet. When they said
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: mistaken identity, I was like, is that me? Is?
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Are they talking? Are they talking to me.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on, what what what
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: is happening here? And by the way, they made that
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: call after the free kick, so it was mistaken identity
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: from like ten minutes ago. It wasn't you know they
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: they allowed the free kick to go through into the
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: box like it was so late. It was so late.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, the game is being managed so much right
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: now that it that it's that it's changing quite a
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: bit it and not all.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Of it for the better.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I think two things can be true.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: One they did get it right on dr because it
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: was a dive. But two, like you said, tab Man,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: if we're gonna go to the monitor for all these things,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: it's gonna take a billion minutes to get through a
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: game like again, because I forgot because mistaken identity. It's
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: that's been a thing, not to this extent, but it's
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: been like, Okay, if you gave the yellow card to
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: the wrong person accidentally, I was like, mister, I was like,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: that was very clearly tim red. It wasn't somebody else,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Like I was like, what are they reviewing? And they
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: turned around and gave it to Almerod. So I thought
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: that was that was interesting and a first I believe
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: at this World Cup.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's too much, it's too much, and it
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: takes too long. I don't mind. I don't mind that
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the VR steps in right away and tells the referee, Hey,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you know you got that wrong. Let's switch it, you know.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And like we've said before, some of the rule changes,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: right that VR is going to come in and help
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: on corners if it hits a foot that maybe they're freidigency,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: but those have to be all the media you can't
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: but you know, don't forget. I still remember, even even
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: at that point, Freeze yelling out together to our wall.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: And I'm only saying that because of how long it
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: took for the sequence. Right. So so Almero goes down,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: he rolls around, nothing happened to him. They get the ball,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: they put the ball back, they they they, The referee
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: makes our wall go the way back. Matt Freeze is
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: setting up our wall like all these seeds aren't happening.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And then finally the free kick is taken. It goes
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: into the box, it goes too long, it gets cleared,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and then the referee blows the whistle and says mistaken identity.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: From like a half hour ago.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, this, this can't this can't be. We we
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: have to we have to get this this var away
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: from the game unless it can make an immediate decision,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: because that was just I think most of the world
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: was wondering what was going on at that time.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Well, amen to all of that, I agree.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: The only the other referee related thing is they have
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: to set me automated all sides. Normally, when they show
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: the like visual vat, they're just like mannequins or like
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: they're They're not supposed to represent the players.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be this is just the player. This
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: is the jersey he's wearing.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: They showed a replay for a wolf side's decision for
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: like Tim Reem was involved and the little like mannequin
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: had a man. BUTNON just found that particularly entertaining. I
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: was like, that's that was a nice touch. If it
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: was Chris Richards so they give his hair too, or
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: is that just for Reem? That was easy to put on,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: So I thought that was sweet. Maybe that's why it
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: took too long tab they were working on the top.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Don't laugh. This is progress. This is progress. Is what
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: we're doing. Is how we're making the game better.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Oh it feels very Americanized. Whether it's our fault or not,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: it just fels like that. But TAB what an opening
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: game for the United States, A dream start to the
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: World Cup. I'll say that fifteen times over this episode
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: because that's what it was. But that's enough for today.
• 42:50
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