Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. I'm proud and excited as George Wei I might say to kick off our recap of yesterday's

draw with England it was scoreless but we had a couple chances and our

midfield controlled big portions of the game and we scared them.

Greg how you doing? I was entertained. I was entertained. I'm a little bit luke warmer I think than a lot of people on the on the

on the overall like concept of the game which we'll get into but but overall like again I'm pleased with the way we played I think I think I'm doing okay

we're still we're still alive at the World Cup yeah mean, there's so many ways to get into this discussion,

but I think a couple of things we should take care of first.

Let's sort of talk about what England was.

They were right up there in the top five favorites to win the World Cup.

Now you can argue about whether that was justified or not,

but they do have an extremely famous talented team and we did, I mean nobody can say we didn't hang with them

listening to and reading some stuff from England I think a lot of people there are

very disappointed in the way England played but they also admit that the US outplayed England for at least big parts of the game.

Yeah, England are definitely powers at this point, right? World Cup semi-finalists in 2018, Euro finalists lost in penalties in 2020,

2021 depending on what asterisk said about that Euro tournament.

So yeah, they're clearly a team that is loaded with talent

and has been effective in tournament play.

And I think we'll get more under their tournament play effectiveness as well for context.

Yeah, well because they beat Iran 6 to 2 on Monday.

The path forum for the US is pretty simple.

We just got to beat Iran on Tuesday and we advance from the group.

Yeah so that's that's the path forward and we can talk about the context here for both teams I think

...