Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. The US women lost to Zero to Spain in Pomplona and performance that was less

inspired than the loss to England last week. We generated very little intentional danger in this game.

We're going to try to make this brief, in part because it was such a tour to watch.

Outside of the performance of Olga-Carmona,

at Left Back for Spain Spain and that lovely second half

goal from Esther Gonzalez. I don't know that there was really that much to be

excited about in the game for either side. Greg? Yeah, yeah that's's that about sums it up bells. This was uh, this this felt like a pretty dull 90 minutes. I mean, uh, I should say the the storylines going into the game on the Spanish side added

added to the drama and and you know for better or worse. I think Fowdy kind of commented on this.

The result probably like has a material effect on the outcomes of that drama.

Yeah, basically a bunch of Barcelona players for Spain not in this camp is, I mean,

use that a shorthand because they have a dispute with the Federation over, they don't like the coach, right?

Yeah, they don't like the coach. They, they've, they've, seems to have voiced their

concerns about the coach for a while now through you know first internal channels and then publicly

So now that it's like becoming a

Public dispute and the Federation has heavily backed their coach,

this kind of an outcome like does have an effect on that,

I think on that sort of public perception.

Yeah, because they got enough players who at least aren't quite as upset with the coach,

enough good players that they can beat the USA fairly comfortably I mean I mean they

took it took a moment of real quality in the second half and kind of a scramble

goal in the first half but the US was not threatening as we

mentioned let's let's stick to our word and try to stay brief here go straight to the

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