Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about

US men's soccer. Thanks for the Dominican Republic Zero. We are qualified for the not the Olympics. We're not qualified for the Olympics. We're qualified for the

Semi-final game which is a play-in for the Olympics. So pretty good. Pretty good six points out of two games.

No complaints here about the about the outcomes.

The outcomes went our way. We got our three points.

Mexico took care of their business. We are officially into the real do or die game now.

I know we've just been talking about every game is do or die,

but that's kind of the way the order of games worked.

So officially into the do ordie game coming up on Sunday.

Yeah, and then Mexico happens on Wednesday, a game against Mexico who trounced Costa

Rico last night, late last night.

I think the argument is, I assume your argument would be just use it to

rest people and prepare for the semi-final play in yeah for me this entire tournament comes down to that semi-final so

Everything has to should be geared towards

Winning that game so if it doesn't help you win that game, don't do it. If it does help you, then do it.

And then, and then for me the argument about like,

beating Mexico so important only matters for the final, which is when it should really matter anyway, even if this were, even if the semi-final wasn't all important and it was just about winning the final, I would still say don't go nuts in the dead rubber game against Mexico in a regional

youth competition like no one is going to care about those bragging rights.

I'm as competitive as anyone but but come on let's let's appreciate some

context here.

Yeah.

Not to mention, this Mexico team is I think quite a bit stronger than our team.

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