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. The U.S. got an early goal and then white knuckled their way to a 1-0 win over Canada to win the group and avoid Mexico in the semi- semifinals of the Gold Cup.

So mission accomplished.

We play either Jamaica or Costa Rica on Sunday in the quarters.

And yet,

hmm, Greg, how you doing?

I'm doing all right.

I feel like we should hold off on the mission accomplished banner until we actually reach the

semi-finals.

Yeah.

The win to avoid Mexico and the semifinals doesn't look as good if we don't if we don't make it to the semi-final

That's true. It was a it was a rough game. It was rough actually rougher on rewatch for me than it was initially and that's usually not the case

Usually you get caught up in the in the the swirl of online negativity about a game and then you watch it and you're like

wait a second it wasn't that bad had the exact opposite experience with this one.

Well how did you go into it as soon as you saw the lineup how did you go into it? As soon as you saw the lineup, how did you go into it? I felt okay, you know, I mean, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I received your point about this being the first time we're gonna do a two striker

formation and it not looking good, you know, or maybe presumably

wouldn't look good and I, you know, I acknowledge that but I still thought, you know, I liked

most of the choices.

But,

That's fair.

And you know, my reservations are like, okay, well, we haven't trained this before.

It's going to be a lot of different rotations for Central

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