Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

Des Moines. We talk about it. I have however a guest who probably

knows better than me. His name is Joe Lowry he's a gentleman he writes for the

athletic he has his own Phoenix Rising Tactics brand called Rising Tactics, and he's a regular guest on the Total Soccer Show, which if you're listening to this you've probably heard him.

Thanks for joining me, Joe. Really appreciate it.

Absolutely, thanks for having me on Adam. Really appreciate it. Absolutely.

Thanks for having me on Adam.

I'm reading that intro.

It only makes me realize how uncreative that name for my Phoenix Rising

Tactics brand really is.

But no, it's not the intent. Not the intent.

So, so, let's just start big picture thoughts.

What did you think of the game?

So this was my first real chance to sit down and watch the U-17s at this World Cup in any sort of detail.

And overall, the impressions, I think, were mixed, and that was kind of the sentiment that you got at with that

opening line is the team had some moments where they looked dangerous where

they actually threatened Japan but a lot of it was just sort of a mixed bag of

so sowness offensively. was just sort of a mixed bag of so-so-ness offensively and defensively.

It was relatively uninspiring, but at the same time not awful.

And I think that's a bit of a fresh perspective compared to long stretches of the Senegal game and you can correct me if I'm wrong

No, I totally agree not awful. I'm I'll take it. I'll take not awful all day with this performance

When you think about what happened with in the game against Senegal. So...

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