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USMNT vs Türkiye Reaction: Pulisic Returns & Pochettino Under Fire · Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogert and Tab Ramos

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  Speaker 1: You just lost to a team that was eliminated in
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  Speaker 1: the home World Cup and from the ten to twelve
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen million people watching the game, and a place
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  Speaker 1: where we're trying to grow the game, or where every
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  Speaker 1: game is important. So yeah, of course you can lose games.
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  Speaker 1: But are we supposed to be happy about that? Right?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? Everybody? Welcome back inside American Soccer. I
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  Speaker 2: am USM and T insider Tom Boger. I'm joined but
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  Speaker 2: one of the greatest players in US soccer history. My
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  Speaker 2: good friend tab Ramos Tap You've been going all around
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup calling some wonderful games. I've been at
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  Speaker 2: the group stage with the US and the US's races
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  Speaker 2: run at the group stage, finishing first, and the tournament
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  Speaker 2: is getting towards the knockout rounds. Are we getting excited?
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  Speaker 3: We are?
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  Speaker 1: We are toime, and I have to tell you, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so happy at the attendance of this World Cup. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot has been made, of course, about the
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  Speaker 1: price of the tickets because it's super expensive.
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  Speaker 3: Travel has not been easy.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of negative to what's happened, But the
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  Speaker 1: positive side is people are going to the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I got to do the Ivory Coast versus Curse Out
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  Speaker 1: game yesterday, and I thought, hey, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of those games where people maybe don't show
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  Speaker 1: up because you know, obviously you know Ivory Coast with
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  Speaker 1: the VSA issues, and then Curse Out. It's a small country,
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  Speaker 1: so you figure they're not going to carry a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. The stadium in Philadelphia was absolutely packed and
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  Speaker 1: the energy in the stadium was incredible.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so surprised.
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  Speaker 1: In a good way for everything that's happened around this
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  Speaker 1: World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, first of all, all of the
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  Speaker 2: critiques of the ticket prices and greed and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: it's fair. Both things gonna be true. But god damn it,
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  Speaker 2: FIFA were right about the price point. Inside it sucks.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't need to be I still think that you
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  Speaker 2: don't need to run everything as a for profit, maximize
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  Speaker 2: every dollar in penny for stockholders shareholders, but a tap.
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  Speaker 2: They knew that we were all addicted. We could all
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  Speaker 2: complain all all we wanted, but when the game started,
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  Speaker 2: everyone was gonna shot up, pay up and show up.
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  Speaker 2: But it is cool to see all of the fans
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  Speaker 2: that are coming through. But we're here to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the United States, who wrapped up the group stage with
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  Speaker 2: a three to two loss to Turkey A, a game
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  Speaker 2: that saw Poachattino come out with and almost completely rotated team,
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  Speaker 2: a decision that you and I both agreed with. Just
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  Speaker 2: Western McKinney and Ricardo Peppe kept their starting places from Australia,
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  Speaker 2: and Peppe only started against Australia because poolsk wasn't available.
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  Speaker 2: All that is to say, when the United States play
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  Speaker 2: Bozzi and Herzegovina in the round of thirty two on
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  Speaker 2: July first, one player from the starting eleven is going
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  Speaker 2: to be starting that game. That's gonna beat Wester McKinney.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about the knockout runs later, but we
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  Speaker 2: want to start with the Turkey A game. What it
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  Speaker 2: all means, What do we learned? If anything? Turkey A
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  Speaker 2: wins three to two. They scored the winner with literally
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  Speaker 2: the last kick of the game. I'm pretty sure the
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  Speaker 2: referee blew the whistle before the US even rolled it
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  Speaker 2: for the kickoff, so it was at the death. It
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  Speaker 2: was very unfortun It was some good, some bad, but
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  Speaker 2: sapped overall in this game. Any big takeaways did we
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  Speaker 2: learn anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, you know, I think a couple of things,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, as you said, we agreed that there
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  Speaker 1: needed to be some rotation. Obviously, there's always you always
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  Speaker 1: run the danger of losing a little bit of momentum, right,
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  Speaker 1: because that's that's really this team has been sort of
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  Speaker 1: the main fuel has been its energy, right, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't you don't want to lose that. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I have to say I saw the same exact intensity
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  Speaker 1: from this second team that I saw from the first team,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's super positive. You know, the players
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  Speaker 1: came in with the same confidence even though they hadn't
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  Speaker 1: played many of them hadn't played before. You know, you,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we saw this basically the same team. But
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  Speaker 1: now I will say this as well. I think, if anything,
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  Speaker 1: we did notice the difference in quality between the first
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  Speaker 1: team and what potentially was our second team, right, which
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  Speaker 1: makes things a little bit in terms of moving forward
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  Speaker 1: and knowing exactly who our players are now. When I
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  Speaker 1: saw the lineup to start the game, it gave me, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: because of the last two years we've had with Bochettino,
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  Speaker 1: it gave me some.
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  Speaker 3: Flashbacks on me not knowing what's going on and.
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  Speaker 1: Who's playing where right, because because in the end, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really I'm really not sure why trust he played left back? Really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like't I didn't understand that. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: have Arston who can do the job, he plays that position.
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  Speaker 3: You played.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you played three center backs if that's what
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  Speaker 1: it was, if Trusty was one, but he really was
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  Speaker 1: a left back.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't understand that part of it. But I
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  Speaker 3: will stay with the positive that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the energy of the team carried us through
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  Speaker 1: most of that first half, although it wasn't necessarily the
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  Speaker 1: good soccer that we were playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the intensity is the first thing I noticed and
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  Speaker 2: really appreciated. And before Turkey scored their equalizer, I think
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  Speaker 2: they're in danger of getting run off the pitch and
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  Speaker 2: it was more intensity than quality, and that is totally fine,
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  Speaker 2: particularly in those first ten minutes when you're playing with
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  Speaker 2: a completely brand new team without some of your special
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  Speaker 2: players or special players within the group. I was very impressed.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked what I saw there. I think we
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  Speaker 2: should start positive. But just to add to your point
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  Speaker 2: to that, but I agree, like when I saw the eleven,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know why you need it like again,
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  Speaker 2: we're splitting hairs, silly. It's completely inconsequential the criticism. I'm
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  Speaker 2: about the Levy because we're not going to have this
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  Speaker 2: line up again. But like Joe Scalley was the right
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  Speaker 2: wing back and Austin Trusty was the left back or
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  Speaker 2: left center back whatever like you said, however you want
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  Speaker 2: to call it, and Tim Waye was left winging back.
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  Speaker 2: I just I just don't really understand why it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: Tim way as right winging back and Max Arson as
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  Speaker 2: left wing back. I think that would have solved a
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  Speaker 2: lot of issues going forward, which in turn would have
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  Speaker 2: alleviated some pressure on the defense because they were going Turkey,
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  Speaker 2: were going through the United States left side way way
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  Speaker 2: too easily. But just with the positives. Christian Polisic, he
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  Speaker 2: came into the game in the fifty eighth minutes, so
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  Speaker 2: he played thirty two minutes plus stoppage time. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: he completely changed the game when he came in. It
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  Speaker 2: took him about three minutes to remind everybody, I'm the
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  Speaker 2: best player on this team. Listen. Maybe he wasn't as
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  Speaker 2: quite as great as he was in the first half
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  Speaker 2: against Paraguay because that was basically a nine and a
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  Speaker 2: half out of ten from him that day. But he
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  Speaker 2: took away any fears that he was going to be
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  Speaker 2: hampered physically or mentally by his calf injury and tad
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  Speaker 2: I think that was very, very important. But Stina said
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  Speaker 2: it after the game. He obviously our objective was to win,
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  Speaker 2: but another objective was to get Christian thirty or forty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: We did that. He looked great. We're very happy. How
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  Speaker 2: did you see Christian Pulisic against Turkya?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me go back a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit on what you just said about about the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: because I think you said it's in consequence show but
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  Speaker 1: I but I think it it. You know, you start
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  Speaker 1: to wonder why make changes that really don't make sense?
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  Speaker 1: And if we see something that doesn't make sense, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think what doesn't make sense us not to say
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  Speaker 1: something about it. Oh, you know Tim tim Waya. Tim
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  Speaker 1: Waya had been playing the right side all year right
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  Speaker 1: for Marseille and he's and he played on the right
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  Speaker 1: side for us always. So why is the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: game the first time that you play on the left side?
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  Speaker 1: You know, why is Trusty playing left back or left
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  Speaker 1: wing back?
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  Speaker 3: When you have.
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  Speaker 1: Another left back if you don't want to play Robinson
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  Speaker 1: and you have one who has, by the way, done well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Arvesten has done well for us, no reason
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  Speaker 1: not to put him in. I mean, what happens now
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  Speaker 1: if if Robinson gets hurt halfway through our next game,
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  Speaker 1: who goes into that spot? Is it Arvesten or is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be also Trusty? Because osin Trusty doesn't
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  Speaker 1: play that position, and by the way, he didn't play
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  Speaker 1: that position well either, so so that's not a place
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  Speaker 1: for him to play. So so I don't that part
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. And I'll add one more thing before
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  Speaker 1: we put this game away. In particular is that we've
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  Speaker 1: been saying all along that you know, and Turkey was
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of getting run over, but then they
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  Speaker 1: started to connect passes. And this is what we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about on this show for the last few months.
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  Speaker 1: When teams are good enough to connect passes through our press,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot defend. And we showed yesterday that we struggled
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  Speaker 1: defending against team that teams that can connect passes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the art of Gooler goal, right, he
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  Speaker 1: basically ran to our defense with wall passes. You look
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  Speaker 1: at the second goal and it was sort of the
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  Speaker 1: same them connecting passes and getting behind us.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm a little bit worried about that. Tom. Now
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  Speaker 3: let's get to the Christian poliitic I thought he looked great.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he looked great. He came in and he.
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  Speaker 1: Looked a level above everyone else, but art of Goouler,
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  Speaker 1: obviously he looked to the level above. He made a difference.
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  Speaker 1: And one important detail, if you remember, he got played
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  Speaker 1: that bowl over the top, which he made a great
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  Speaker 1: first touch, control into space and get into the box.
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  Speaker 1: That was a full out thirty five yard sprint that
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  Speaker 1: he had made. So if there was any issues with
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  Speaker 1: that calf at all, we definitely would have seen him
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  Speaker 1: on that sprint and we didn't see that. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he's one hundred percent and that's great news for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and honestly that that might have been the most
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  Speaker 2: important sakeaway, particularly within the context like the team fought.
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  Speaker 2: There's a few disappointments, but how far this team goes
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  Speaker 2: in this tournament, a lot can rest on Christian polistic soldiers. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's a team game, Yes, there are or there are
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  Speaker 2: other like Balligan has been awesome in the games he's
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  Speaker 2: played this tournament. He was one of the players rotated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeadi el Card completely agree with that decision. Shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: come near the field. We talk about Max Arson. I
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  Speaker 2: feel for him because if he's not even getting in
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  Speaker 2: off the bench in that game, tad like I guess,
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  Speaker 2: like if Anthony robbins, I think at this point now,
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  Speaker 2: like Anthony Robbinson either picks up a knock or or
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  Speaker 2: something happens where they need a left wing back, you
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  Speaker 2: probably have to go to Arson because of what Tim
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  Speaker 2: Waya looks like against Turkey. So I think that was
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  Speaker 2: another That was another big takeaway for me is that
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  Speaker 2: I was really looking forward to Tim way in this
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  Speaker 2: game and he was one of the worst players on
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  Speaker 2: the field straight up, and I was I was asked
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  Speaker 2: by somebody, just like nobody within the industry, like kind
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  Speaker 2: of a friend, like what's going on with way Like, I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is the moment too big for him? I
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  Speaker 2: was like, no, no, don't disrespect him Way like that, Like
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  Speaker 2: it was just he's been in a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: rut in terms of form, and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: he never plays on the left, like you said tap
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  Speaker 2: for Marseille for the US national team, and that's for
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  Speaker 2: a reason. His best traits is is his verticality. He's
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  Speaker 2: one on one dribbling his like he's like a traditional
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  Speaker 2: winger like that plays on their strong footed side and
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  Speaker 2: gets to the mline or they can go, they can
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  Speaker 2: dribble by two. But like he's best on the right.
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  Speaker 2: Pochatino has, like you know, the the dominant ie vision thing,
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  Speaker 2: which is tab. I'm I think that I'm decent with
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  Speaker 2: keeping up with new trends and being open to new information.
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  Speaker 2: That one doesn't really do it for me, I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't see a correlation. I don't see weighing that
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  Speaker 2: over a lot of other things. And the fact TAB
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  Speaker 2: that you're putting a right footed player on the left
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  Speaker 2: wing when the left back is Austin Trusty, he ain't
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  Speaker 2: palmming forward, so you're kind of taking away the space
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  Speaker 2: in that flank, Whereas if Weaya is playing right wing back,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's much more natural, much more comfortable, and
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  Speaker 2: much more effective. So this is gonna make like for me,
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  Speaker 2: if Waya comes in off the bench, he's playing on
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  Speaker 2: the right side in a knockout round game. I trust him.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen enough of him. I know what he's like.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of the argument, to a lesser extent
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  Speaker 2: of Polisic before the Senegal game. It's like, no, he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't scored since December and it's been a lot of games,
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  Speaker 2: but like, I kind of trust him to show up.
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  Speaker 2: Way if he comes in off the bench in a
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  Speaker 2: knockout run game, I'll still kind of trust him. But
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  Speaker 2: this has been This was a disappointing performance for him
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  Speaker 2: in particular.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and I think that's exactly right. I think
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  Speaker 1: what what what I would have hoped for yesterday? And
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  Speaker 1: again I was not going to hold Puchettino to a
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  Speaker 1: result yesterday, although we wanted one, because you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the end, you're playing. Yeah, you can say that Turkey
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  Speaker 1: is playing for pride, but the Turkey's out of the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: You have to beat them. I mean, they're out, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think our takeaway yesterday was not going to
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  Speaker 1: be so much the result. It was going to be
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  Speaker 1: how do you prepare these these second guys for when
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  Speaker 1: you need them later on? And I think you didn't
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  Speaker 1: prepare weya for needing them later on because you put
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  Speaker 1: them in a position where you're not bringing them in
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  Speaker 1: later on in any game, right, you put them opposite side,
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to play there. You put trust in
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  Speaker 1: a position where he's not going to play if you
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  Speaker 1: need them. So I didn't understand that part of preparing
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  Speaker 1: the team. And now there was some positive for it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, Berholter proved like he's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that can come off the bench and just give you
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  Speaker 1: that energy that you know, if something happens to Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Adams or McKinney in the center of the field and
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  Speaker 1: you needed to bring someone in. I think that this
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  Speaker 1: created no doubt that that's your guy, right. So I
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  Speaker 1: was happy to see that, happy to see his energy.
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  Speaker 1: So so there was some good too. But yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: should have been a little bit more preparation of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Just hey, let me throw all these guys out there,
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  Speaker 1: which which is kind of to me. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, and I love the bur Halter point. Couldn't
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  Speaker 2: agree more. I think, listen, he's got great technical quality,
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  Speaker 2: he's a dog man, and I love that there was
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  Speaker 2: a moment where uh Georrana got either heavily fouled or
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  Speaker 2: undercut in the air for coach what it was in
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  Speaker 2: the first half, and Burhlter took acception immediately gets in
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  Speaker 2: the guy's face, turns around, helps you up. It's just
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  Speaker 2: these little things that like kind of like probably over index.
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  Speaker 2: But I like to see the second half the same
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  Speaker 2: situation happen, except Burhalter's in the air, gets undercut, hits
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  Speaker 2: the ground pretty hard. Like I was worried that he
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  Speaker 2: kind of came down on his shoulders. Thankfully he got
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  Speaker 2: up after a little bit. It was all right. Geor
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  Speaker 2: Rana was right next to him, looked at him, looked away,
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  Speaker 2: walked away, just like, come on, man, like I just
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  Speaker 2: got your back in the first half and you're and
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  Speaker 2: you're letting them lay there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think that it's you know, he's definitely
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  Speaker 1: a play you want in the field, you want him
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  Speaker 1: next to you. You know, you start to identify with
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  Speaker 1: players like this because they're they're there. He's fully one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent of the team guy and and and you
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  Speaker 1: want to see that.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's a young player.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he took a yellow card on early which is difficult, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you're always in danger of sticking your foot in
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  Speaker 1: there and potentially you know, being out at some point.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he was on the verge of yellow cards
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  Speaker 1: the whole time, so you know, but that's young player
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  Speaker 1: being over anxious.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take that anytime. I really would. I was. I
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  Speaker 3: was happy to see that. If there was one player
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  Speaker 3: that I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Going to say that stood out yesterday that I think
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  Speaker 1: we can count on for the rest of this run,
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  Speaker 1: how however long that's going to be, that was Sebastian Burholter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that he'll start any games unless
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  Speaker 2: there's a car red cards suspense, whatever it is. But
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  Speaker 2: like I think he's going to come off the bench
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  Speaker 2: every game that the United States are left in this tournament,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's a testament to him. But we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna take a quick break here because we've wrapped up
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  Speaker 2: the tur K game. Except there's one more thing I
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about that we're going to get to
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  Speaker 2: have the break, a bizarre press conference from Reso Pochettino.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna dive into that. We're gonna look into a
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  Speaker 2: little bit to the Bosnia match on Wednesday, given our
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  Speaker 2: projected starting elevens and much much more so. Please rate
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  Speaker 2: Amos wherever gets your podcast. We'll be back to really
• 15:15
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• 15:28
  Speaker 2: lost three two to Turkey A the last kick of
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: the game. I don't think that there's gonna be too
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: many big, big criticisms of the team of the performance.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: They went into the game knowing that they finished top
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: of the group and that Turkey was finishing the bottom
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: of the group. Turkey A coincidentally tab playing their best
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: soccer when there's no stakes, no pressure, no uh no context.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Pretty interesting. That seems to be the moo of that team.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: But I digress. We go into the press conference after
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: the game. Pochettino took longer than the other games. I
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: don't know if there's any correlation. Just felt like we
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: were waiting, felt like we were waiting. Just fine, totally normal.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: But you know, gets into the press conference and off
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: the first question, which was a completely fair and genuinely
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: positive question, It was something to the effect of, particularly
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: in the second half, when after you went down to one,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: your team fought, like what did you make of your
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: team's fight and and and you know, it's an easy
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: opportunity to say, all these guys are great whatever, and
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: he goes, what do you mean by fight? I don't.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know the second half. I think we fought
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: for ninety seven minutes and I was like, okay, he's
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: not in a good mood. That's kind of great. And
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: then from there on it just got weirder and weirder.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: One of the questions or one of the answers, he goes,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I'm happy. Maybe I'm not showing because your questions are
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: a little bit weird. I'm confused. Maybe the vibes is
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: like we go home tonight and Turkey stays in a
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: World Cup. Nope. And he did that a few times,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: like he got asked the question a little bit later, like, hey,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: what did you learn in this game? Something's that effect? Again?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Tap very basic stuff, and you know, goes, First of all,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I just want to say this, No one congratulated us
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: for finishing first in a very difficult group. I congratulate
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the players, the staff, and the fans. Okay, now I'll
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: answer your question like it was really weird, tab And
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if this was him genuinely
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: being a little bit prickly in this moment, which I
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: maybe he was, or is this he's talking to the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: players and he's trying to do that. Everybody's against this thing,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: like I don't know, but it was weird.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's weird is that we have to have this
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: discussion really because I mean, which part is misunderstood here?
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just lost to a team that was
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: eliminated in the home World Cup and from the ten
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to twelve to fifteen million people watching the game, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a place where we're trying to grow the game or
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: where every game is important. So yeah, of course you
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: can lose games. But are we supposed to be happy
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: about that? I don't understand that part of it. I mean, yeah,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: we're upset. We expected to win the game. Okay, so
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: we you know, we beat Paraguay and we beat Australia. Congratulations,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: that's great. You're in first place. That's where we want
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to be. But this was not This was not overall,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you know, a good performance. And I think for him
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to be worried about the vibes of us being upset
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: over losing the game, well, I mean that's what's going
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to happen. What would have happened if he was coaching
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Argentina and same scenario. Put same scenario together, right, you
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: just won your first two games, you won the group.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Germany was not celebrating yesterday after losing against Ecuador.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, they they had won the group.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: But I don't think Germany showed that they didn't care
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: about the third game.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: They wanted to win the third game.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: You want to go into the second round with momentum,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and that's important. And I understand about the changes.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: We get all that. I think we've anything.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: We're protecting Persatina and saying, hey, you know, you got
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to make the changes good. But you then come to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the press conference and you're really happy. I mean, I mean,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know that that seems weird to me, rather
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: than the questions. I mean, and by the way, we
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think any of us could have been any.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: More positive about this team. I mean, they're playing great.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I personally said the other day is the best I've
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: ever seen a US midfield ever play.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: And of course the coach gets credit for that. It's
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: not just a player that coach. But then when you
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: lose the games, you know, now you've got to face
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: the music. When it. You know, when it comes to
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the press conference, is not good. You lost a game
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to a team that was eliminated and had nothing to
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: play for. That's where you're gonna.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Get and tap like the questions like I people listening,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: if you if you don't know me, like I promise
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not the like old journalists like you know. Oh,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: he challenged us, Like, like, I'm being genuine when I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: say the questions did not have a nice edge to them. Again,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the first one was was true? Like again, maybe it
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was lost in translation, but I've heard him answer that
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: question before. I've sat in those press conferences. When I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: asked the question about momentum, tap if I'm being self
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: critical about the way I asked the question. I asked
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it too soft because I because I knew that he
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: was in a bad mo and I was like, I
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: don't want to set them off. I don't want him
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to misconstrue this. And I gave it a couple of qualifiers. Ah,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I know you want to win all the games or whatever,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and you know, but is there any worry that you
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: lost momentum? Goes, explain what you mean momentum? I don't
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: understand quote to play with the same team we played
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: against Australia, to take a risk, to receive a yellow
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: card suspension, to risk players who has problems, I don't understand.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Germany lost momentum too, and they played with mostly the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: same team against Ecuador. So you talk about Germany. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: had a friend who's in the Prescott press conference in
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: for the Germany game. Julian Nausman is getting a question
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: from a German media member. That wasn't a question, It
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: was his opinion on why he got the tactics wrong.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: None of us did that right. And Tab, you talk
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: about the praise that that's coming here, it has been
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: wide spray, widespread, complete praise not just of this team
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: but of Mariso Pochatino over the last week. All of
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: that is completely one hundred percent earned. Overall. I think everybody,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: even in that room that he maybe disagreed with. Everybody
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: overall thinks that this was an incredible group stage or
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a strong group stage for the United States. But like,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: were we supposed to give him a standing ovation when
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: he walked into the room. There are other countries. Shoot,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: last night, there's a person representing Turkish media. Not only
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: is this person Tab wearing a turkey a jersey. The
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: turkey a jersey is signed by the players, and they
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that person asked a question in the press conference. So
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. If that's what you're expecting, you're not getting it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You're not getting congratulations, profe, thank you so much for
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: saving you aside right like again. So that's why, like
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: part of me maybe thinks that this was him talking
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to the players and he's a motivational guy, and it
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: was just again, this doesn't this doesn't change my opinion
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: of him. I think he's a good coach. I thk
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: he's a great motivator. I think a lot of things.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: And I'm not this after this podcast episode, and I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: probably won't talk much about this press conference other than
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the laugh about it once or twice of like it
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: being weird. It's not as if this is going to
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: be some seminal moment. It was just we all walked
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: out of the room like that was weird, wasn't it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: The only thing I can add to that time is,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know, I've been fortunate enough to have played in
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Spain and have played in Mexico, and I can tell
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you when you compare the press, American press doesn't have
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: bad intentions.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: They really don't.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, they may ask some serious questions at times,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: they may misinterpret some things at times, like it always happens,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: they may have it out for you because they don't
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: like you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: There may be some reporter. There may be some reporter
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: that just doesn't like you, and that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Always that always happens, right, But in general, it's not
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it's not a media that has bad intentions. We we're
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: all in it for the same We're all in it
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to sell the game because we know where our game
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: is in our country. Regardless of how big the World
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Cup is, we know how important it is that the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: team does well.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: We all want that. Otherwise there's no game.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: We're not in the top five, six, seven, eight sports
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in the country. Realistically, we want to get there, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: we can't get there if we bury each other into
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the ground. So I think these questions were normal questions.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know what there is gonna be upset about.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So I I just think at this point we we
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: just have to move forward.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I totally agree. And just like
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: there has been a ton of praise, but again completely earned,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: like this team those two games, like the performances, right,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: you have tab Ramos the best midfield in US soccer history,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: saying that was the best midfield performance I've ever seen, Like,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: it doesn't get higher than that. And for me, I'm
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to the round of sixteen. And again,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like like we've said, just worth repeating, so it doesn't
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: sound like we're being overully critical or any of the answers,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: like I think you and I in his shoes would
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: have made just maybe not the same exact changes, but
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the same idea to this game. Like no, of course
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have played Tyler Adams on the risk of
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: yell card suspension. Like we understand Tyler Adams might have
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: helped you win this game, but nobody's criticized you for
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: that like it was.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So we're going by the way, Tom, I'll just I'll
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: thend my part of it with this. I'll say, by
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the way, you're gonna go play Bossian next, which we
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: expect to win, and then you go into the next
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: round and let's say, you know, Belgium pulls it off
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: today and you go and you loose to Belgium in
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the round of sixteen.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: It's not a good World Cup for US.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: No, it's not a good one, so people aren't gonna
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: be happy, so expect that. So you know you're you're upset. Now, well,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: let's let's what happens in the rest of the tournament.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Because we we our expectations are pretty high. That's why
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you're here coaching the team.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I had a player, a player at
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: another World Cup team currently at this tournament texted me.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: It goes hey, man, like, do you know how much
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Pochatino makes. I was like, yeah, it's like six million,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Like it's goods public figure, Like I'm not reporting anything,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not portraying any competences. And a guy goes, damn
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: good for him, man, he earned it. Like more like
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: it was like players were like, yeah, like Pochatino is
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: getting paid good money for good reason because he earned it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: He deserved his resume and his coaching ability, and the
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: expectations are going to be pretty high. Tap to your point.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: If they go out and around to sixteen, that is
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: equaling the twenty twenty two World Cup. And if you
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and I sat down in January of twenty twenty three
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and said, at the twenty twenty six World Cup, US
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: gets the ground of sixteen and goes out good or bed.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: We both say bad and that's just it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: And by the way you're looking at if you go
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: out in the round sixteen, you will have beaten Australia,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Paraguay and Bosnia. That's your three wins, which is great.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: That Bosnias is obviously European team that qualified later on
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and that you know. But but it's not like you're
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: hanging your hat on. You know, we just beat Germany
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and Portugal in the group stage and now we got
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: knocked out in the round of sixteen.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: You're not.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Right, right, and why we're going to dive into this
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: in the preview to Bosia. But one thing to leave
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: is this team, first under burr Halter and then under Potchatino,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: has been bad against European teams going back to I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: think the draw against England was at the World Cup
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: in the group state, which is very good. The lost
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: of Netherlands started a winless run against European opposition that
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have to break against Bosia. But tap really
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: quickly when we talk about this Bosnia game, do you
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: have what you think or what you prefer the eleven
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to be for this knockout Round game in San Francisco
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: on July first.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and I think we were all gonna end
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: up with the same. I think it's pretty clear now
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: that we have a base starting eleven. That's a good one,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and I think we can we can potentially beat any
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: team with this eleven, you know, and you know again
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the given day, any given day thing, right, But this
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: is a good team that we have, so I'd go
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: with freezing goal. There's no reason for him not to play.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And then Freeman, Richards Reem and Robinson Desk all the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: way on one side as a wing back winger, Pulistic
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: on the other side as a winger obviously in the center, Adams,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: McKinney and Tillman and Battlegan up top. I think that's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that's our lineup, and that's clearly in my at least
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: in my mind, that's that's what I'm seeing.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Tap. Yeah, this is the We've done this every since
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: we our first show. This is the easiest answer I've
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: ever had to give to this question, and it's that
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: eleven and you started today's show with like it made.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: It reminded me of like PTSD of the Other World.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: We had no idea what lineup was coming. We had
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: no idea why anybody was playing. What if he has
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: a surprise for the body, What if he goes back
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: to that, What if.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: It can't It can't be this time, It can't be.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: It has to be the first time we get it right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: It has to be.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Really, does I think that whether they win lose a
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: draw up, there's a big change in this lineup that's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: gonna be spent a lot of time that in the
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: post game show about that. But uh so, yeah, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: can Bosnia. We're gonna dive into it in a few days,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: so stay tuned for that episode. No game is easy,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: No knock around game is easy. But I'll tell you what,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: it's better than getting Senegal. It's better than getting Ecuador.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Bracket shaping up for the US. But we're gonna dive
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: into all of that in much much more than the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: next show. It's time for one more quick break. Next up,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: we look back at tabs, predictions and spoiler alerts. They're
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: pretty good. Thanks for listening Inside American Soccer. Please right
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: for you and subscribe Foreverusual podcast will be back. Welcome
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: back to Inside American Soccer. Let's check back in on
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: tabs DraftKings picks to see how we did. DraftKings app
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: is now available nationwide, the easiest way to get in
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the World Cup with just one app. Tab. Pretty good
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: from our last show. Let's start with Bosi and guitar.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You said Bosnia over guitar, and indeed you were right.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Bosnia the round of thirty two opponents for the US
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: m NT after that went over guitar.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: As I always say, I get excited about my Draftkins picks,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and this one, this was an easy one because I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: think guitar was coming off of an awful performance against Canada,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and I didn't think that. You know, we talk about momentum,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and I just didn't think they'd be able to recover
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: enough to uh to pull.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: This game off.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, Bosnia won the game, and they
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: actually won it a little bit easier than I thought
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: they would, but they did.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, put up a few goals that that felt like
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: it would have been a clean seat. Another game that
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: you thought it would be a clean shoit. I did too.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Canada Switzerland tab. You said one noil Switzerland had ended
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: up to one Switzerland, but Canada was pushing, push and
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: pushing at the end of draw would have been enough
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: for them to finish first in the group, but they
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: didn't get it. They finished second and qualify for the
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: knockout runs.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that would be that would be a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: close game, and it had to be a close game
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: because you know, Canada obviously was going to push to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: keep that first place and stay stay in Canada.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Had they won, they can continue to play at home.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Now they have to travel, which makes it a little
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: bit more difficult. But I knew that Switzerland had a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: better team and they would just do enough to win
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: And in this case they.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Did another game, the other one in Group D. It
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: was Paraguay versus Australia. Going into the game, you pointed
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: out a draw would see both teams go through, so
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: that felt pretty likely, and you called the one one draw.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: It ended up no, No, I'm gonna go vir for
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: you here. I think you would have said one one
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: because zero zero might have been too obvious to people around.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And then it turns out this game had I think
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I saw a stat somewhere, if not the lowest expected
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: goals total of a World Cup game since two thousand,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: one of the very lowest, and so tab I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: both teams were happy to run around a little bit
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: past the all sideways and take their point and move on.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I thought that one of the two teams would score
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a goal by accident and then the other one would
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: tie it somehow and they would both walk off holding
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: hands and everyone would be happy.
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  Speaker 3: But this kind of makes me think about, you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: the head to head type.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Break rule, which has made a lot of these match
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Day three games irrelevant, and that's that's too bad.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: In this case, obviously, two teams that are, you know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: with a tie.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: They both qualified, so they didn't have to worry about
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: anything else, and they both did their job. At the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: end of the day, you have to play what's in
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  Speaker 1: front of you, and they both did and they both
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: get to the next round.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you talk about the head to head rule.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So Turkey A were stapled in fourth place because of that,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: though it was possible that if there was a winner
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: in the Paraguay Australia game and then Turkey A could
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: have made it back and golden. They went into this
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: game knowing zero percent chance anything could change, whereas it
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: would have been a long shot in previous tournaments, but
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: they would have had at least a fighting chance to
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: get into that third space rotation.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Same with the US team.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Right, US had the six points in Australia and Paraguay
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: had three, so you know, if the head to head
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't in place, one of the two could have potentially
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: ended in first.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Yep. So we'll see if if that rules changed or
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: they keep it for the next tournament. But sticking right here,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: USA Turkey tab you said to no, USA, that's the
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: only ones you got wrong. But we had no idea
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: really what lineup was coming. So I'm gonna give you
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: a pass on that one.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: No, I you know, I'll take the full blame there.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna accept your pass. I'll
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: just take the blame.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I got that one wrong, of course, I couldn't expect.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I did expect a lot of changes in the US lineup.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I thought that would definitely change the game. I did
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: expect changes in Turkey, which which happened this well, because
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Turkey didn't play everyone they had been playing before, so
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: they had changes as well. But I didn't expect you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: some of our players playing out of position and being
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: out of the game, and and maybe that made a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: little bit of a difference so I can have uh,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: let's just say that's gonna be my excuse for that pick.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: That was a good coaching answer there, tab you started with,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take full blame. Well, you know I had
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: another lineups. Yeah. See that's how you handle press conference.
• 32:55
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