Welcome to Allocation Disorder.

I am Sam State School, joined as always by Paul Tenorio, and not as always, a very special

guest on a very special night.

Our good buddy and athletic colleague, Felipe Card Cardenas we are coming to you live from Cincinnati courtyard marriott downtown it's like

three in the morning the u.s beat mexico dosacero two nil that poetic scoreline in ohio earlier this

evening or i guess yesterday evening at this point, to move in a tie

atop the octagonal standings with Mexico on 14 points.

Christian Pulisic, he didn't start, but he sure made an impact.

He came in off the bench in the 69th minute.

Five minutes later, I believe with his first touch, scored the opening

goal for the U.S. Weston McKinney made it 2-0, 11 minutes later. U.S. mature, composed,

calm, confident, for the most part, there were a couple card situations with McKenny

and Miles Robinson who saw a second yellow. They'll both miss the Jamaica game

on Tuesday due to suspension, but on the whole, a super positive night for the U.S. men's

national team. We're going to break it all down. We're going to start big picture. We're going to get

a little bit more granular. And then we'll talk a little bit about Mexico, who Felipe spends a lot

of time covering and thinking about, and look ahead to next week's games as well. So let's start big picture.

Paul, I'll start with you, and then I'll move to Felipe. What's the big takeaway for you?

I think for me, it's just the continued growth of this team and the fact that they look

fit for these big games, for these moments.

They're not afraid of the moments.

They kind of embraced this game, just like they did in the finals this summer, I thought,

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