Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview

guest is Wright Thompson, the phenomenal senior writer for ESPN. We've had some great guests

lately, including Bria Felicien, Ivan Gazetus and Semra Hunter. I also encourage you to check out

my podcast series, American Prodigy. They've ready to do story. All eight episodes are out,

and you can binge all of them to your heart's content. We'll have Wright Thompson on soon,

but let's start with some talk about The Soccer World with my friend Chris Wittingham,

the radio voice of Inter Miami and a co-host of The Chelsea Mike Up podcast. Chris, it's been a

while. Thanks for joining me. How are you? Far too long. Let's get cracking here on The Soccer News.

Lots to talk about. Let's start with the game that just ended. We're recording late on Sunday

here, US Women's National Team 2, Brazil, NIL, Kristen Press, Megan Rapinoe score for the US in

a challenging game against the team coached by our previous interview guest, Pia Soon Haga.

What were your thoughts here? Well, I first want to start off by saying that the way that

Kristen Press takes that first goal is exquisite. And I thought it was really interesting that

Ali Wagner kept pointing out, well, this is kind of the tactic here. It's kind of overwhelm

various wings, right? So if the ball is on the left hand side, Crystal Dunn can get forward,

and then Lindsay Hurrayan can have the ball in front of her, and then Kristen Press is running

in that channel. And kind of that wave of three down that left hand side is really difficult.

So Kristen Press gets one V1 against the center back and is able to get around Hurrayan and curl

it in the corner without ever looking at her target. Like knew how new where the back post was

and picked it out to perfection. But it was kind of a weird balance between the US for me being

a bit wasteful both in terms of the way that they kept possession and the chances that they got.

I mean, there was a couple of clear one-on-one breakaway opportunities that they just don't do

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