Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. The U.S. women played a New Zealand B or even C team on Tuesday in Wellington and ended up winning by a comfortable 4-0 scoreline but it's

hard not to feel a little bit nervous about this team based on this performance

with the World Cup a mere six months away five months isn't it?

Yes, which is hilarious right because it's a four zero win

But we knew going in this was as you said a depleted New Zealand team I think eight of their starters were uncapped going into this game

so they were they were playing an experimental side and it's just the first half right if the first

half didn't exist then we could take the second half and say, okay, you know, a totally overmatched New Zealand team, this is what we need to do to take care of them.

Well done, check the box as we move towards she believes in February against real competition

but that first half is there right and it's just kind of like picking at you saying

but what if this is what you look like against the good teams.

So we have to balance that out in our minds.

Well, even if you look at just the second half,

I mean, the goals were nice. All of goals were nice.

All of them were nice really. But some of the defending on them

when you go back and watch was like,

what are they doing? This isn't gonna, this ball from Ashley Sanchez is not gonna get through

against a good centerback, you know?

No, totally the case, what I go back to for that, even mean the Sanchez goal that I can that comes to mind right away

You know to just hit a 50 yard ball to a wide open player

It's it's actually like the early stage of that buildup where it's like okay this at least we're

showing like the necessary surgical approach to breaking them down breaking down

their 442 to even allow Ashley Sanchez to get the ball in that pocket picker

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