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

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. We won the game! One zero on a 71st minute winner from Tyler Adams arriving onto a ball from Antoni Robinson

who was running up the left wing fire up your narrative machines my friends now just

kidding about the narrative machine.

It was a poor performance from the US against a weak Mexico side that rarely looked threatening.

But we're going to react to it as best we can.

Greg, how are you?

Pells, I'm good. That was actually a great friendly in my eyes, not at all because the soccer

was worthwhile. It very much wasn't. but because the contrasts in certain variables was just so stark.

Contrasts in certain variables. You want to expand on that right now or hold off till later?

No, just, you know, there's, there were a lot of things that I think fans were not happy about seeing.

There were definitely things that about the lineup, about the formation, the personnel that I wasn't

happy about when it was announced. Or at least that I didn't want to see. I even talked about

you know the Will Trap stuff and I didn't mind seeing Will Trap again because it just means you're going to find out more about

Wheel Trap in that role and you're either going to be, you know, your opinion of him is either

going to be strengthened or refuted.

Yeah.

So, so I just, I excited to at least I was hoping that it wasn't just going to be a complete

slog and we'd actually be able to see some some differences play out and the way it the game played out

I think we did see a lot of real real like key contrasts and

contrast between players performances is what you mean? Yeah player

performances team shapes and systems, and not all that's super important because again this coach isn't exactly sticking around for the long haul.

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