Episode 113: Cuba 0, USA 4, and a wrapup of the int’l window

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

4.7 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A "professional" win in the Cayman Islands. Where do we stand now? Are we still trying to disorganize the opponent with the ball? Is that possible with the players Berhalter seems to prefer? Not our best work, but we try to get into these questions and answer them.

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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 Cuba 4-0 in the Cayman Islands on Tuesday night to qualify for the Concord Caff Nations
0:24.1	League semifinals and close out an international window that results-wise was a success and
0:30.3	erased any possibility that Greg Berhalter will be relieved of his duties before,
0:34.9	I would assume World Cup qualifying starts next fall.
0:38.8	Greg Velasquez, how are you?
0:41.6	I'm good, Bells.
0:42.4	I very much enjoyed watching the Daniel Lovett's
0:44.7	testimonial. You say that but is it true? I don't know about that. No he has
0:52.2	he has several testimonials to go. Yeah. So we often struggled to build out of the back against
0:57.1	pressure. Yeah, let's be honest I didn't terribly enjoy watching whatever that game was. Yeah, it wasn't great. It wasn't great.
1:03.0	It wasn't great.
1:04.0	I mean, you know, it's good that we took care of business
1:06.0	and that's kind of like the byword of the day.
1:08.0	But by the standard of building out of the back,
1:12.0	disorganizing the opponent with the ball,
1:15.4	it certainly was not a master class.
1:17.7	The pressure that Cuba applied when they did
1:20.4	when they did apply pressure pretty much undid us in terms of our you know
1:25.4	commitment to playing out of the back the only thing that's other thing that's
1:28.6	notable for me tactics wise like I think we employed basically the same
1:31.6	defensive shape as we saw against Canada.
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