Hello and welcome to a very disappointed total sucker show.

My name is Daryl Grove.

I'm in Boston, and I'm joined by a man who's in Richmond in our studio, and I'm going to assume is not happy.

It's Taylor Rockwell.

Hello.

You are assuming correctly.

Prior to the USA Cuba game, I pushed in all my chips on Greg Burhalter, and that seemed to work out. Now it feels like I pushed them all in. I won the hand, and then the casino exploded. It's about where I feel like I am right now. The casino are asking you to pay up and you don't have the money to pay them back, and they're going to break your knuckles. I mean, that would be like if we were coached by Joe Pesci. In this case, it's like, no, I have the money. And then it's like, before I can even cash out and enjoy it, horrific things happen. And now I don't know how to feel anymore. Oh, so in case you haven't guessed from the intro, we're here to review the 2-0 away loss to Canada in the Conquer Calf Nations League. The good news is I guess we're still in position to qualify for the Gold Cup. Yeah, there's that. Second place in the group. Yeah, and now we know that the Nations League matters, I guess, because we have to win these games. Yeah, the way we're going to do this, we're going to talk tactics, right? Because tactics were a huge part of this game. And, you know, quick spoiler alert, Herdman got his tactics very, very right for Canada. Bear Hilton, not so much, I think is our basic working theory. We'll get into the details of why we think Hurtman's tactics worked and why Greg Bearhelter's did not. We'll of course analyze the goals.

And I think I'd also like to talk later, Taylor, about if Greg Beerhalter has a sort of

come to Jesus moment and thinks, oh, I need to change some things up. What could he do to make

things better? Okay. So are you ready? Let's talk tactics. I feel like we don't need to

describe the US tactics because they're the exact same thing that we've seen ever since

Bear Halter took over. Is that fair to say? Yeah. I mean, more or less, like you don't have

some of the variations we've seen, but generally speaking, yeah, back four, four, four two

defensively. It seemed a little bit less high energy and high

pressing than it was against Cuba. It didn't seem like we had as many numbers committed as far forward

as we as we have when there was success. He tried to change that, I think, in the second half. But at

least in the beginning, it seemed like a 4231 sort of becoming a, sort of becoming a 4-4-2.

Yeah, about standard from what we've seen so far.

It's the same thing where the right back in this case, Yedlin, would get really far forward.

And we've got the left attacking sentiment was Western McKenny,

kept that spot from against Cuba, Pulisic on the left wing,

and then roll down as like the number eight, sometimes

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