Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined as always by Paul Tenorio.

Paul, we have to, we have to make a confession here to our listeners. We sold this show as the first in allocation disorder history that was going to be recorded in the same room, in the same place by both of us together in El Salvador.

But there's only one of us in El Salvador, and it's me.

You are, uh, I'm staring at you on Skype right now.

You're in a hotel room in Nashville.

There's, I don't know, some guitar imagery on the wall behind you, very music city vibes.

You had some unfortunate circumstances pop up with your family.

It's all cool now.

You're going to be coming to Honduras, but you know, you had to do the prudent thing

and stay back.

So you didn't get to experience the majesty that was Estadio Cuscatlan for the US

MNT's World Cup qualifier tonight, Thursday night,

down here in San Salvador. Of course, if you're listening to this, you likely already know

that the match ended in a zero-zero-zero draw. Decent enough results, performance left a little

bit to be desired, I think is fair to say. So we're going to just dive right in.

We're going to break down this match. We're going to talk big picture. We're going to drill down on

some of the specifics from the 90 minutes in San Salvador. And then we're going to, you know,

I'll give you a little bit of the scenes here from the ground. And then we'll look ahead to

to the next match on Sunday

in Nashville against Canada which we will both be attending in person happily so so yeah

Paul sorry that you had to watch this in Nashville but give us your give us your take man

what'd you think yeah first of all let's knock on wood that like nothing else goes wrong for me in the next few days.

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