Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.

Hey everybody, we got our last two matches of the national team calendar.

The women drew England at wembley

on Saturday and then it was a smash and grab job of a win against the Netherlands on Tuesday at the

Hague Greg how you doing I'm doing all right I managed I think I did manage to enjoy that sort of

decaf version of the U.S. women's national team. It was definitely missing some explosiveness, I think it's fair to say.

You're, of course, referring to triple espresso.

None of them were involved in these games, and yeah, we definitely, definitely missed them.

Alyssa does a reasonably caffeinated job out there, wouldn't you say?

No, I totally agree.

That was one of our takeaways from last window, and I think it holds up after these two games.

I mean, she provided a couple of our best chances of the window.

So, yeah, so the first game, I thought, was actually kind of a sleepy affair.

You know, I even participated in the hyping up of it.

You know, you don't get many friendlies like this, one versus two in the FIFA rankings

at Wembley.

But I don't know how much there really is to draw from that game.

And then this game that we just won was a really pretty bad performance from the U.S.

I know.

I know.

And it was.

And yet here we are winners of a team that hadn't lost in like eight games for the Netherlands.

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