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

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. won the game, 1 to 0 over Qatar. They needed a least to draw it or guarantee they

would advance and they got the win so they're going to be second in the group. We can talk

about the implications of that more later, but joining me to break it down

is Brian Sharetta, the Dean of Men's National Team and Men's Youth National Team coverage.

He writes mostly for American soccer now, where he regularly pumps out must read

interviews with American players, roster projections and breakdowns and

and assessments of player performances in Europe, Mexico,

MLS and other places.

Brian, talk me down from the ledge here.

What do you make of that performance?

I mean, it wasn't a good performance.

There's no if-fans butts about it. You You know it's not one for the time capsule it kind of reminds me of like 2015 when they beat

Meantmar in the first game of the of the of the world cup and they were outplayed pretty

poorly pretty badly for the first half of that game and then they end up

winning and and overall have a very nice world cup.

You know, this is, you know, I, so it becomes kind of like a, like a,

an ongoing theme with Tad, is that I think sometimes he gets things his most wrong

when he plays games where the team should win and he tries to I think think about games for the future and not

rest guys or have guys be prepared for certain games and I think it kind of this kind of

fit that bill and I'm thinking well you know for example that like he's not going to do anything too crazy against France if that's who the US plays

He's gonna go he's gonna go more to what he does best and what he knows best.

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