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

Hey everybody, the U.S. face two high-quality European opponents in the March window,

and we're beaten soundly both times.

City of Atlanta, which seems so ready to embrace this team.

Kind of had to suffer through these two games, as did, I think, the rest of us.

Here to recap, the 2-0 loss to to Portugal on Tuesday is Greg Velasquez.

Greg, how are you doing?

Bells, I think I'm doing better than most.

I feel like it was, there was plenty of suffering, but I think there's good and bad suffering.

And I feel like this was, I think this was fine suffering.

I think this was like, the reason you schedule these teams is to find out where you will get beat by these teams in June.

And I feel like we found that out.

There's always a question of like, is it anything we can get better at or we just at our limits?

And I think it's a little bit of both where maybe we can get better at some things.

Maybe we do find out like, look, we aren't a top 8, 12, 16 team in the world probably.

But can we do enough that maybe on a day where the brakes break a little bit better?

Yeah.

We don't we don't go down in flames.

So we're looking at a classic Velasquez, uh, contrarian sunshine episode, aren't we?

I, it probably is, yeah. Like, uh, again, I'm always coming in late. So I see the chatter in real

time.

And yeah, like, what?

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