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

#418: World Cup β€” USWNT v Portugal 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 β€’ 893 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Belz on the tire fire our talented team has found itself in, with a little bit of reminder that we've got good enough players (and defensive soundness) that we might still do well at this World Cup.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Final game of the group we needed result and we got the zero zero zero

0:18.0

draw versus Portugal job done right Greg look if you think you're going to get me to waffle on my World Cup as a party philosophy, you are wrong, sir.

0:29.0

It's a party and we are still at the party.

0:32.0

Yeah, it's a party for other people, I think.

0:35.0

It's not really a party for me.

0:38.0

That sucked.

0:39.0

That was horrible.

0:40.0

It was, I would say a wrenchingly terrible viewing experience.

0:47.2

The team seems to be getting worse.

0:49.1

Vlaco has no solutions.

0:52.2

On the bright side, I do believe on any given day we can beat anybody, but it

0:57.1

feels more likely we crash out against Sweden who is our likely opponent in the round of

1:01.5

16. Yeah Sweden are like four goals to the good going into their last game so they would need like an eight goal swing, something stupid like that.

1:08.7

They might be ten, I think they're ten goals to the good on goal difference.

1:12.3

So we are playing Sweden in around a 16.

1:14.8

And that is a big deal for our probability

1:17.2

to continue staying at the party.

1:19.8

Sweden, much better than whoever finishes second in that group.

1:23.0

So that hurts, probability wise, but you are totally right.

1:27.6

Even in this really frustrating, anxious, tense match, where I think it's fair to say we feel like we are

1:36.4

underachieving as a team and watching our opponent yet again feel like they are

1:40.8

overachieving as a team. That's the pattern.

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