#609: USMNT v Mexico, Gold Cup Final 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 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The USMNT played in a 4-4-2 block and mostly denied Mexico the big chances despite getting totally dominated, but a key mistake got us on the first one, and then we just couldn't keep it level after that. We also did very little with the ball, and one player in particular comes under the microscope for that.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:15.8	Hey everybody, it's two days since the U.S. lost 2-1 to Mexico in Houston.
0:20.8	The dust has settled a little bit.
0:22.1	Got Greg here with me to cut through the nonsense and get down to the details.
0:26.6	Greg, how you doing?
0:27.7	I'm doing all right.
0:28.4	This was a fun game for some details, I feel like.
0:31.1	I feel like there were some things to kind of look at for this group,
0:34.6	the way we played this game, in particular sort of comparing it to
0:38.0	the fightless game that we played against Switzerland to lead into this tournament.
0:43.4	Hmm.
0:44.5	Interesting.
0:45.3	Interesting foreshadowing there.
0:48.2	Yeah, I'm curious.
0:49.3	I feel like, you know, we lost control of the Guatemala match from minute 15 on, pretty much,
0:58.5	with some, with, we did create some chances in the second half, but we did lose control.
1:04.4	And so to me, it's like, it's no wonder we're going to lose control of this game against Mexico,
1:09.9	a much better opponent than Guatemala.
1:13.7	Do you have the same culprit, the midfield?
1:18.9	We can get right into it.
1:20.6	So first off, we're going to be super nerdy about what we're talking about with control,
1:26.3	because I think that's such the huge thing, right?
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