Pochettino Roster Predictions, Pulisic cold, Balogun & McKennie stay hot

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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Soccer, News, Sports News, Sports

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Alexi Lalas and David Mosse are back with a new episode of State of the Union! The European clubs were back in action after the international break and Weston McKennie found the back of the net again for Juventus in a win, but Christian Pulisic stayed cold appearing as a sub in Milan’s loss to Napoli. Malik Tillman scored for Leverkusen and Gio Reyna made another appearance for Monchengladbach as Alexi and Mosse debate whether or not Gio made a mistake not moving to MLS. Pepi and Dest secured a league title with PSV, Balogun scored a worldie for Monaco and Agyemang went down with an injury for Derby. Josh Sargent and Diego Luna got on the scoresheet in MLS and Lionel Messi christened Inter Miami’s new stadium with a goal. In #AskAlexi, the guys break down Doug McIntyre’s latest USA roster predictions and in One for the Road, Alexi explains what it’s like at the FOX studio lot the night before the World Cup.Presented by Zillow #Zillow (0:00) Intro(3:52) U.S. Abroad: Balogun & McKennie on FIRE(14:51) Agyemang goes down with an injury(21:16) MLS recap: Luna, Messi score(30:58) #AskAlexi: Pochettino Roster Prediction(41:47) 1994 vs 2026: How much progress have we seen in U.S.? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Had he come back to MLS, do you think we would be looking at him differently right now?
0:04.5	Because let's be honest, I still think we're looking at him on the bubble right now. He might be in a better place right now. Now, that's a second guess because I did like the Glockbox move at the time, but it has not gone as well as he hopes. We have to be fair also to MLS. Just because you come back to MLS doesn't mean that you play, but if he was,
0:22.2	I don't know, doing what Sebastian Berhalter is doing right now or somebody else, I think he'd
0:27.5	be a whole lot further along and there'd be a whole lot more confidence. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lalas, and welcome to the State of the Union Show, presented by Zillow.
0:53.2	Someday starts today. This is where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the State of the Union Show presented by Zillow. Someday starts
0:54.2	today. This is where we look at the beautiful
0:56.0	game on and off the field through the lens
0:58.0	of red, white, and blue-colored glasses.
0:59.9	This show will be talking, ooh,
1:02.1	McKinney running, Balagan
1:04.2	gunning, all right,
1:06.1	Tillman Tilling, Luna returning,
1:08.7	Burrhalter working,
1:10.1	Aronson slotting, Arsenal settling, the new new stadium,
1:15.8	World Cup Peak behind the curtain, 94 versus 26, Springsteen, JFK, Anaconda, and so much more.
1:24.0	But first joining me as all as my friend, my colleague, my guiding light,
1:26.6	David Mossie, a soccer savant and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer, extraordinary. Mossie,
1:31.8	how are you doing on this? What are we looking at here? Monday, April 6th in the year 2026.
1:37.1	Doing well. I'll get this out of the way first. I end at our last pod by recounting my experience
1:42.7	attending a Paul McCartney concert.
1:45.0	Up close and personal.
1:46.3	Yep.
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