Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. The US U-20s beat Slovakia 2-0 to nothing to win the group at the U20 World Cup. They now face, well we don't know who they face.

Next week in their first knockout round game, but it's been a lot of fun so far.

Here to break down this game with me is Paul Douglas. lot of

fun so far here to break down this game with me is Paul Douglas one of the hosts of the

inside Maryland sports podcast and an extremely valued member of the scuff

discord server Paul how are you I'm Adam, thanks for inviting me along.

I feel bad you had to get so far down your contributor list

to get to me, but happy to help out where I can.

Appreciate it, man.

Appreciate it a lot.

Any big picture thoughts on this game

before we get into the lineups and the timeline and all that?

I mean, I just think it was just a really impressive

kind of professional performance.

I mean, we've spoken about this quite a bit, and I know you guys have touched on it too, just how good this team is it playing soccer and

soccering in terms of their ability to play under pressure and pass out of a tough defense.

I was a bit worried the little bit I've seen to Slovakia

that this is the type of U-20 team

that we typically run into,

it was bigger and more physical and faster

and they kind of bully them to death.

That's usually what happens in the last couple of knockout rounds from what I believe

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