Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about

US men's soccer. Ah, Drink it in. An absolute circus of a midnight matinee in.

An absolute circus of a midnight matinee in Denver ends with the U.S. defeating Mexico 3 to 2. Only the second time

we've defeated Mexico in a final and the first time we've defeated them in a

competitive match since 2013. That's eight years guys guys. Obviously, this was the biggest win of the Scuff Podcast era.

Feels good. And wow, what an entertaining match.

How you doing, Greg?

I am doing well. I am barely recovered. I mean we were I was

scrambling to get make myself presentable if you will for for what we're about do. Yeah, I mean it was a late night.

Everybody every US men's national team fan is tired this morning this afternoon

But man man it was so so fun to watch that game. Let's just go right, let's get right into it.

No time, right? That was, I mean, everyone who knows or is expecting a Bell's chronology here knows that they've got a they can get a lot of things done on their to-do list while they're listening to this episode.

Yeah, make sure you have a lot of dirty dishes and some really long grass to mow you know whatever you got to do

so the lineups were Mexico came out in a 4, sort of their standard 433

under Tata Martino, Memoachoa and the goal,

Shaka Rodriguez, Nesta Araujo, Hector Moreno,

and Jesus Gayardo across the back line.

Ensign Alvarez as the six, and then Charlie Rodriguez and Hector Herrera

as the eights, and then from left to right, Teketito,

Irving Lozano and on Tuna across the front line

and Lozano was, so Lozano was the nine,

which is not usually his role, but he was was kind he was free-flowing he was everywhere

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