Hey there. Welcome to Landon wall and witty on the road to guitar. I'm Grant wall. Thanks

so much for joining me. We've got a special episode in partnership with Metal

Lark and Levitard and friends with reaction from Landon Donovan Chris

Whittingham, Mike Ryan and me to the U.S. men's national teams.

Tunnel, Dosa, Sarah, Win over Mexico on World Cup qualifying match day seven.

Landon is in Washington, DC tonight. The rest of us are here in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Where I'm riding for my sub-stack newsletter. Grant wall.com. Go there to read all my stuff.

Guys, great to be with you. How are you? I'm buzzing. I wish I was there. You guys must

be like electric. Yeah. I mean, the atmosphere was crazy from minute one,

walking into the stadium. It's jam packed. And in the first half, it was kind of a bit,

you felt confident the U.S. wasn't really vulnerable, except for that one chance for Chucky

Lozano, but you kind of wondered where were they going to find the attacking breakthroughs from,

but then they came in the second half. A true home field advantage. And all the games should be

at Cincinnati. I mean, this was totally pro-U.S. You've got a few Mexican fans sprinkle

throughout, but very much pro-U.S. And we've been in so many stadiums over the years for

USA-Mexico games in the U.S., where that's not the case, where it's very pro-Mexico. And I want to

get a sense of what happened in the second half of this game, because that was the best half I

had seen the U.S. play against Mexico. Since maybe the 2013 World Cup qualifier in Columbus,

where you land and scored, was that your thought? What it looked like to me, I said to someone at

half time, I was on the phone, and I said, although Mexico had the two, certainly one, most dangerous

chance, it felt like the U.S. had the tempo of the game the way they wanted it. And the only way

Mexico were going to get a chance was through Raul holding the ball up, Raul Jimenez, and maybe

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