Sergiño Dest out with knee injury, historic Haji Wright performance, VAR & rivalries galore

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse are back after another epic week of soccer. Unfortunately, PSV also announced Sergiño Dest suffered a knee injury during training, he will be out for an extended period of time. Who will replace Dest in Copa America? Over in the FA Cup, Haji Wright became the 4th American to score in a club match in Wembley and nearly sent Coventry to the finals. The rivalries in Spain and Argentina also did not disappoint, El Clásico with a 5-goal thriller and Boca edges River behind a Merentiel brace. (3:52) Stateside, Messi continues to do Messi things with 2 goals against Nashville in MLS. The California Clasico was a battle to the death, with LA Galaxy taking the win over San Jose to keep their top stop in the West. We also preview CONCACAF Champions Cup semis, which kick off this week on FS1. (31:10) In #AskAlexi, the guys talked CONCACAF island super team, EPL teams struggling in tournaments, and Alexi meeting a few next generation soccer players with chicken wings. (39:41) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tupac! Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.
0:20.6	We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of
0:22.9	red white and blue color glasses. This show will be talking VAR
0:26.3	Pearl Clutching, MLS Gold Fests, Ten Hogs Survival, Haji Machine that he is,
0:33.3	desk out Boca River, messy destruction,
0:35.7	fall of England, Tupac and Biggie payoff,
0:38.3	Phoenix chicken wings, manhunt, and so much more.
0:41.3	But first joining us all is my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David
0:44.4	Monsieur Savavant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer, extraordinary!
0:48.8	Massey, how you doing on this Monday, April 22nd in the year 2024.
0:54.2	I'm doing well, we have a blockbuster show today.
0:56.5	We got all sorts of stuff happening.
0:59.0	And that's because on the field and off the field
1:01.5	for that matter, all sorts of stuff was happening over the
1:03.8	last days since we spoke have you watched anything I've got one thing today
1:10.1	last night HBO premiered season two of the Jinks.
1:15.0	Season one is one of the seminal seasons in true crime history.
1:18.9	It's an incredible blemish on Kat's resume that she hasn't seen it.
1:22.3	I am skeptical of season two.
1:24.6	We've been here before with making a murderer or a tiger king.
1:27.2	Sometimes you try to squeeze more out of a story
1:29.2	than is really there, but we'll see.
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