Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Hey everybody we're here to recap US Women's National Team versus Canada.

I've got Tara with me, Greg, I don't know, he's protesting the rain or something. He can't be here. Tara, how are you?

It was a dumb game. I'm tired but also I enjoyed it. I don't know. I'm filled with

contradictions. Yeah. What a spectacle.

Especially, I would say in that first half.

Both teams sort of had to pioneer a new sport that's like related to soccer but not exactly soccer.

Because of course the field was so waterlogged.

It was magnificently waterlogged

in the driving rain in San Diego.

You couldn't do any passes on the ground,

especially in the first half.

No passes on the ground.

Really no dribbling.

The job was not to find an exploit just space,

but space with dry ground.

So find somebody on the flank

was kind of started to become something that you needed to do and then definitely definitely definitely no back passes to the goalkeeper

that first half it was it was so so bad but I really feel like we I really feel like we

we got to appreciate a new version of Naomi Germa we haven't seen yet. She can also do it in a typhoon who would have known.

She wasn't taking a single chance. She was clearing that ball any chance she got. She could do it. She took control of the night.

Listen, I think she's the only one who understood

the point of the first half.

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