Episode 87: A Gold Cup postmortem and look forward

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

Adam Belz

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

4.7 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

A long episode breaking down the loss to Mexico, the opening flurry from the US, the gradual annexation of the game by Mexico, and that 20-minute period of utter helplessness in the second half culminating in the match-winning goal for El Tri. We try to discuss what this game and the overall performance in the Gold Cup all mean for the USMNT and the player pool in the fall and beyond.

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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 USA lost 1-0 to Mexico in the Gold Cup final on Sunday and we've had time to let the dust clear
0:25.7	read a lot write a lot of slack messages back and forth re-watch portions of the game
0:31.4	Make Jiffs and we're going to look back at the game today and the
0:34.9	tournament and then look ahead to the fall with the lessons of the gold cup in mind.
0:39.8	Much of that will come in the form of us answering questions we got on Twitter.
0:44.1	The idea is we start with a conventional recap format and hopefully as we go things get
0:48.3	more expansive and forward-looking.
0:51.0	Greg, are you ready for this?
0:53.0	Bells, I am very ready. We have all that Mexico game gave us a lot of the data.
0:59.0	So much data. You've been, I know you've been churning through it over at scuffed Headquarters South.
1:05.6	So the game was at soldier field in Chicago.
1:08.1	Sellout overwhelmingly Mexican crowd as is usually the case.
1:14.0	Okay, the lineups. Mexico came out with the same 11 they used against Haiti except that
1:18.0	Ariel and Tuna started on the right wing
1:21.0	instead of Roberto Alvarado. So it was Memo Cholun Gull, a back line of Chaca
1:26.5	Rodriguez, Carlos Salcedo, Hector Moreno, and Jesus Gallardo from right to left.
1:34.0	And then rumored Iax signee,
1:36.2	Edson Alvarez was at Holding Mid.
1:37.7	He's a good player.
1:38.4	He's an impressive player, very young too.
1:42.0	Jonah Doss Santos and Andre Andre Scordado ahead of him
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