Oh, hello. Hello,

I'm Alexei Laws, and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red,

white and blue color glasses.

Joining me today as all, wait not as always, special guests.

Soccer savant, you have a new one. Yeah, you guys are definitely soccer savant also.

You will notice that David Mossy is not with us today. As I've said time and time again he is in high, high demand. Everybody

pulling him in all sorts of different directions. So we have, we've gone to the bench.

You've seen them before. You know them, you love them. before you know them you love them well you know

them purple Peter people leader down there stu Holden great stu Holden and Heather

Riley thank you so much for for joining me today we want to do this show. We're going to make it short and

sweet but it's kind of a wrap-up of the first round of games. We have seen every

single team now in this tournament and so I will start with you Heather what has stood out to you

you just give me a couple of things not not a whole list but a couple of things that have

stood out to you after this first round of games.

Mm. First of all in terms of teams that have impressed me I got to go right the crumb of the crop

Spain to me best team so far through this first set of matches I thought that they

were class in their possession where they had 80% possession, yeah,

you'd say another day for Spain,

but this time they're pumping in 26 shots.

I know.

I know. I think, wasn't it?

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