USMNT 2-1 Guatemala - Luna & Tillman may start at World Cup 2026
Sam's Army
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Rapid reaction to the USMNT's (unnecessarily?) hard fought 2-1 win over Guatemala in front of a hostile crowd in... St Louis?!?!?! Diego Luna and Malik Tillman continue to make a case for punching their tickets to World Cup 2026, and not just to round out the roster. Also, chatter about Pochettino having no choice in how to handle the Pulisic situation.
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| 0:00.0 | The All right, everybody, welcome back Sam's Army, summer soccer silly season week, or episode |
| 0:34.1 | six here. |
| 0:35.5 | And we are, well, we got a lot to talk about. And it's all going to be on one thing one thing only u.s men's national team we come off of a |
| 0:43.8 | well i'll let these guys describe it but a two to one win in the gold cup semi final here in st louis over a |
| 0:51.1 | game live and very loud Guatemala. |
| 0:55.1 | At least I'm talking about the fan base. |
| 0:56.6 | They showed up and showed out. |
| 0:58.2 | But we got to win. |
| 1:00.0 | No intro questions. |
| 1:01.1 | Let's just jump right into it. |
| 1:03.0 | Tyler, why don't you take it off the top? |
| 1:05.2 | What are your thoughts on this game? |
| 1:09.7 | My thoughts are that Diego Luna is the left winger for the U.S. men's national team. |
| 1:15.7 | You agrees. |
| 1:17.2 | Agreed. |
| 1:18.5 | Nala agrees, emphatically. |
| 1:21.5 | No, he is the starting left winger until further notice until Christopher Ballistic earns his spot |
| 1:26.0 | back as a substitute. Number one. |
| 1:28.0 | Number two, that group on the field displayed their youth and displayed their inexperienced in a big way. |
| 1:38.5 | Really good learning experience for all of them, obviously with the exception of somebody like Tim Riem. |
| 1:44.7 | But yeah, I mean, like we really struggled to, A, kill that game off when we needed to |
| 1:51.4 | in the first half when we actually had some control of the game. And B, dealing with St. Louis |
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