#415: World Cup — USA v Vietnam recap

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

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

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Greg and Belz get into the lineup surprises, the goals, several other decent attempts to play from the U.S., no shots allowed, and some guest expert pronunciation of the Vietnamese players' names. The big test comes Wednesday vs the Netherlands.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. We got the 3-0 win over Vietnam in our opening match of the World Cup.
0:19.0	What did we learn from it?
0:21.0	Was it disappointing?
0:22.0	Was it disappointing, Greg? Not for me. I know there was a general sense of
0:27.2	disappointment about it and I feel like it's very outcome driven as people listen to us know, I tend to focus more on chances created when
0:37.6	evaluating than actual goals scored. So for me, the chances created column was
0:42.4	pretty high. The chances allowed column was as low as it can possibly be
0:46.6	It's a world cup group stage game
0:48.9	Are our
0:50.5	Sophia Smith scored two goals and had an assist,
0:52.9	it's hard for me to be like that was disappointing
0:55.9	as a World Cup experience.
0:57.5	Right, right.
0:58.2	You also have a philosophical commitment
1:01.0	to treating the World Cup as a party, which I think is healthy.
1:06.4	But yeah, it was the XG like 4.75 to 0 about?
1:10.8	Yeah, yeah, zero shots allowed.
1:12.4	We did not concede a single shot, which again doesn't necessarily say that our defense is is airtight
1:17.1	throughout for the duration of the tournament, but it's as good as you can be in a game, so
1:20.9	I was fine with it. And and yeah the chances we created were probably close to a billion.
1:27.5	I will say I thought you know Vietnam didn't threaten us at all but they're pretty
1:32.4	resolute defensively their goalkeeper had a
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