Canada defeats the USMNT: Is World Cup Qualification at risk?

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Alexi & Mosse open the show with special guest Doug McIntyre, who joins to break down the USMNT’s 0-2 loss to Canada in the World Cup qualifying match (1:10). They discuss how much blame should be on Berhalter, Christian Pulisic’s struggles, what this means for the national team moving forward, and much more. They also talk about American transfers, including Matt Turner to Arsenal and Kevin Paredes to Wolfsburg. In their trip around the world (40:40), Alexi & Mosse discuss the moves that happened during the January transfer window, including Florentina striker Dusan Vlahović to Juventus, Luis Diaz to Liverpool, and more. They also touch on the AFCON semifinals and Club World Cup. In #AskAlexi (51:15), Alexi & Mosse answer fan questions about whether Pulisic should ask for a move from Chelsea, thoughts on Frank Lampard as the next Everton manager, and nicknames. Finally, in his One for the Road segment (1:10:10), Alexi pays tribute to Hope Solo, Clint Dempsey, Shannon Boxx and others elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.
0:04.3	We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored
0:07.8	glasses. This week, well, we're going right to it. We're talking about the
0:12.1	U.S. men's national team. We are in the midst of a window here. We were recording this on Monday January 31st
0:18.6	almost 24 hours after the US played against Canada and lost against Canada.
0:25.0	And we had to bring in the big guns, so obviously I got David Mossy here and Doug McIntyre.
0:31.0	All right, listen, guys, I am coming to you from Minnesota, where the next
0:36.2	game is on Wednesday. We'll be covering it here on Fox, but I say we get right into this.
0:40.6	We're not going to talk about what we watched. I know some people tune in for that, but we're getting right into this. We're not going to talk about what we watched. I know some people
0:42.8	tune in for that, but we're getting right into this and right into these two
0:46.9	games, but mostly we're focusing on this Canada game because it's the one that's
0:50.2	fresh in our minds. And I'm going to go right to Doug up there okay
0:54.4	initial reactions and you've done some great writing and reporting on this team
1:00.2	especially over this this last week
1:03.1	initial reactions simply to the result of losing two nothing
1:07.5	to our friends from the great white north
1:09.1	yeah no it's it's it puts the onus on the US to make up for that in the next game against Honduras.
1:17.0	They now have no margin of error.
1:19.0	Canada took points off the US in Nashville in September. The US would have liked to have
1:24.8	returned the favor. They didn't and now there's yeah whatever whatever
1:29.3	margin forever they had is out the window they have to win their next game on Wednesday
1:33.8	against Honduras in Minnesota.
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