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

Hey, everybody, we are on to the finals of the Gold Cup against Mexico. They eeked out a win

last night as well. I mean, maybe that's a little unfair. Greg, how you doing?

I'm doing great, Bells. It's great to be back into a final, regional or otherwise.

Absolutely. Yeah. Interesting game, right?

We came out and looked like we were going to finally put together

this sort of comprehensive concordcaf destruction that I think we were all kind of hoping for.

But then the crowd in St. Louis, hey, the Midwest can put up a crowd.

Crowd of Guatemala fans in St. Louis rose to the occasion, and I think the players

responded to that, they didn't sit down. They didn't give in. And I don't know.

I mean, we still got some chances in the second half, but I would say basically from

minute 15 on, it was, we were scrambling a bit.

Yeah, I think scrambling a bit is pretty fair.

And I think, you know, we didn't expect to be scrambling too much in this game.

If I can opt to being a little bit

overconfident about how we would handle business, you know, kind of thought that Guatemala

had done us a favor competitively knocking Canada off and that we would, you know, sort of

be able to coast through. And 15 minutes into this this game it definitely felt like that's what

was going to happen it did and then it didn't happen it didn't happen i'm curious like maybe it was

all just uh emotional stuff that kept us from doing it but um but we didn't so there's plenty of good

to talk about let's start with the lineups uh matt freezing goal it exact same lineup, actually, that we played in the game on Sunday.

Freeze and goal.

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