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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Episode 112: USA 4, Canada 1, and a new defensive shape

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Men's National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad, Sports, U17 National Team, Us Soccer, Mls, Usmnt, American Soccer, U20 National Team, Soccer

4.7922 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The USMNT defeated Canada 4-1 on Friday. The big news is Berhalter dramatically adjusted his defensive tactics. Meanwhile, the boys still can't play out of the back. Dest is cap-tied. Lots to cover and we didn't get to it until a day late.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.1

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. The USB Canada 4-1 in Orlando on Friday night goals from Jordan Morris Aaron Long and a jazzy

0:24.2

artist Brace were more than enough to get a commanding win in a spirited effort

0:28.3

from the American men. Greg are we cooking. We're definitely I mean we're definitely preparing better

0:36.6

dishes than Canada are at the moment. Canada known for their cuisine no we, we were cooking in Orlando. To me it felt like the first

0:46.3

game of a of a coaches era. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. It makes a lot of

0:51.0

sense to me because you said it to me earlier today.

0:53.2

The more I think about it, the more it makes sense, for sure.

0:55.2

Can you expound on it anyways?

0:57.4

It just, it looked like that looked to me like what a first game of a coach who had just taken over the US men's national team would have looked like.

1:07.0

It didn't look like there we had built on anything or had sort of a, it didn't look like the end of a long process it looked like if you just took a group of guys and said hey

1:16.4

here's how we can beat this team we're playing tonight like go out and do it we we went out and did it

1:22.4

it was it was kind of rough around the edges. It was very scrappy at times. It was opportunistic at times. None of the things I'm saying I think are bad things. It just it didn't feel like sort of the end point or

1:37.2

midpoint of any kind of a process. It felt like Bertholdtor hit the reset button kind of.

1:42.7

Right, which again, I'm not trying to say that as a criticism.

1:46.1

I welcome the reset button at this point.

1:50.4

And we can get, we can definitely get more into that. Yeah, we will. Well, I'll come back. I'll come back and sort of reference the reset I think as we go through this.

1:58.8

Why don't we hear from Burhalter in the press conference he said he said a few things he praised the players in

2:07.6

general terms several of them scegenio desk John Brooks he's interestingly he said he asked John Brooks for more leadership.

2:15.2

He said Sirgenio Dust is a gamer, but I think this was the the most interesting quote.

2:20.9

We haven't done anything yet, right?

2:23.0

We had an objective is to go to the next round.

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