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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

#350: Netherlands v USA recap

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Yanks Abroad, Sports, Youth National Teams, U20 National Team, Mls, American Soccer, Soccer, U17 National Team, Men's National Team, Usmnt, Us Soccer

4.7921 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Belz review the action -- the three big lapses, the tactical setups and adjustments, fatigue, pressing in a 4-3-3 vs setting up in a less confrontational 4-4-2, and our continued lack of final third cutting edge -- all within the context of a World Cup that was all-in-all a real step forward for the USMNT.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're in a year. We lost 3 1 to the

0:17.0

3 1 to the Dutch on Saturday to get knocked out of the World Cup in the round of 16.

0:22.0

It was the biggest game played by the

0:23.4

U.S. men's national team since the inception of this podcast and here we are to

0:28.3

review it and try to examine Berhalter's era, which may be continuing, we don't know.

0:34.3

Greg, how are you doing?

0:35.7

I think Bells, I think I'm surprisingly okay.

0:38.1

I mean, how did you feel?

0:39.8

What was your reaction at the final whistle? Well I was bombed for sure but yeah so less

0:47.7

devastated than maybe some would imagine. Yeah.

0:54.0

Yeah.

0:55.0

I don't know what it was about that game in particular,

0:57.0

but it was almost just like watching our best players try to do it

1:00.0

and sort of just come up short.

1:09.0

Just see, and also not having like a huge, like, I don't know, I don't want to call it a Wondo moment,

1:11.0

we all kind of know what the Wanda moment is.

1:14.1

I feel like that helps.

1:15.1

I'm not calling the Pulisik miss a Wanda moment already.

1:17.5

So I'm just gonna get that out of the way.

1:18.8

Okay, good, good.

1:20.8

But yeah, just like, just watching them and they sort of gave it you could tell that everything was given in that game

1:26.7

And it just wasn't quite enough and and that happens and

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