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

Hey everybody, it's Wednesday, October 22, and we've got Doug McIntyre here to talk about the past window, the injuries, and Champions League, and who is going to be on the World Cup roster, which is going to be a big conversation for the next eight months.

Doug, how are you doing?

Doing well, Adam. Good to see you. Thanks for having me back on. Appreciate it.

My pleasure. Let's talk about what you thought of the window first.

Pretty good performance in the draw against Ecuador.

Then we had to face Australia without Pulisic, without Jedi, without Tillman.

What did the team show you in that game?

Yeah, without Tyler Adams for both games.

They showed a lot.

I mean, I think they showed a lot of character and fight in both games.

You know, conceding an early goal, neither of those goals should have happened.

The first one against Ecuador comes on a counterattack.

Way too much space left in the back and a very good finish by a very good player in intervalencia and then the

goal against Australia I mean I thought at the time in Mauricio Pachino said the same thing as

press comments after that goal happens in the World Cup you are dead you're dead you're

losing that game so you know they have to they have to clean up that sort of stuff. But the comeback in each

game was really encouraging. It's very hard when you concede first at the international level to get

back into a game. And there's not that many chances, even when, you know, scores are tied at that

level. And they did. And they came back in both matches. You're right, again,

without a lot of really good players, guys that we all think are going to be in the starting

lineup come June 12th in L.A. And guys took advantage of their chances. So, like, I've seen

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