Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Hey everybody we won the inaugural W gold cup beat Brazil 1-0 on a Lindsay

Horan header right at the end of the first half.

Our defense was largely solid.

We got a trophy.

But is this going to be a celebratory episode, Greg?

I don't think so. Oh, man. Is this going to be a celebratory episode, Greg?

I don't think so.

Oh man, I mean, that's our curse, right?

We love an outcome.

We love a, we love holding a trophy.

But we kind of are also heavy into the into the review of the

tape yeah and the tape wasn't great here so I mean I promise I'm not trying to just be contrarian or throw the hot take out there.

But with the ball, you know, when we had the soccer ball, that first half was the worst I've ever the U.S. women's national team play.

And I don't mean like aesthetically, you know, everyone knows we like our past move soccer.

I don't just mean like it was not that kind of soccer.

I mean it was the worst of like any type of soccer you could choose to play

Whether you're playing possession direct whatever with the ball we were just brutal we were nothing

We didn't have a we didn't have a type that I could tell that we were trying to play, like much worse than

Sweden in the World Cup. And if you carve out the Becky moments, much worse than against Mexico. The very nice thing is soccer is a funny old game and

sometimes the ball goes in and so after 45 minutes of that on a kind of a

nothing play we we score a soccer goal, which is great, and that

soccer goal is enough to win us the game.

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