Welcome to a brand new edition of Football America.

See, Hercules Gomez.

I'm Christina Alexander, fresh off that USMNT win to get to the semifinals for a 17th time, 13th in a row, and that'll look to be their

lucky number 13 because, wow, they needed maybe a little bit of luck there towards the end.

What a way to end this game against Costa Rica against the Kaylor N Hernandez on the other side with the Matt

Freeze showed up for this US M&T side I mean the possession telling the the

tale of what we saw a little bit today some opportunities miss Malik Tillman

misses his penalty in during the regular regular time but now that we saw in

the penalty kicks just no doubts to be able to help the US M&T get to here.

We are not alone. We've got quite a team here today. Casey Keller joins us from Seattle.

Case, I'm going to start with you, your immediate reaction to what we just saw in these penalty kicks from Fries, from Navas, et cetera.

How's it going?

Yeah, I mean, I think we saw probably two teams with young inexperienced players, looked

particularly as we got to the later rounds, very nervous.

I thought Friest did a great job to stand up

for the second one against Calvo. When a player had scored one already, sometimes you think,

okay, what's he going to do? He's going to go down the middle. He guessed right on that one.

Novice had to come up with a tremendous save to keep Costa Rica in it. But we you know, we were kind of talking, you know,

off camera as the penalty kicks were going. And, oh, that kid looked nervous on that last one for

Costa Rica and Fries guest right and came up with the big save. But yeah, a couple inexperienced sides.

And it kind of showed during the penalties and both goalkeepers I think proved

something I mean obviously Kaler novice in the experience that he has we expected him to to make a couple

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