Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show, a late-night edition of the Total Soccer Show, our first in a while.

My name is Taylor Rockwell here with me to talk about the USA's Never in Doubt, always secure 3-1 win over the Jamaican national team the semi-final of the Cockat Calf

Nations League is Joe Lowry. Hi Joe. How you doing, buddy? Hey, Taylor. What a super normal

drama-free game of soccer that we just watched. Crazy. Totally not a game in which I like

message Joe and then asked him twice before we started recording. How are we going to talk about

this game? I am so confused. And on the

surface, it's not that confusing. The U.S. gets a very late goal after conceding a very early goal.

Tony Mueola sums it up very well as we went into extra time, a goal in the first minute and a goal

in the last minute that sent us an extra time. then there's two more goals to the United States.

So on the surface, a comfortable win. But when you look at it from the context of going into

extra time, going into the very last kick of the game, basically to get the equalizer against

a Jamaican team that were missing many, many, many key players. This Jill Lowry was not the game that I was expecting, and I'm pretty sure it's not the game that Greg Burrhalter and the USM&T were expecting either. No, I mean, you never game planned to go down 1-0.31 seconds into the game. I mean, it was basically straight off of kickoff. It's kickoff. It's a long ball forward to the right side.

Jedi Robinson ends up putting the ball out of bounds.

It's Jamaica throw in.

And like eight seconds later, the ball is in the back of the U.S. his own net. And for a Jamaica team that we talked about this in the preview earlier this week, they don't want to play. They want to sit deep. you toss in all of the chaos that is always surrounding Jamaica's Federation on both the men's side and the women's side.

Leon Bailey is on a podcast out there like throwing. you toss in all of the chaos that is always surrounding Jamaica's Federation on both the men's side and the women's side.

Leon Bailey is on a podcast out there like throwing bombs at Jamaica talking about how like he's getting texts about what's going on at 11 a 11 p.m.

to know what that's happening the next day like people shoving cameras in his faces because there's no like barriers between them and the outside when he's with Jamaica and so he's not with this team. McAle Antonio dips out and he's not with this team either. He was not one of the players we discussed as being absent earlier in the week. Like this Jamaica team is in absolute chaos mode. It seems like they always are. They don't want to go out there and do anything but defend in a mid block or lower with an occasional bit of high pressure, and we saw that in this game, and play on the break or play for those little set-piece moments or second-phase set-piece moments, and I am kind of chucking the throw-in into that category. That's just to make his game. And so when you get scored on 31 seconds in, and we'll talk a bit more about that goal later on like coming back

from that is difficult and the u.s made it look difficult probably more difficult than it was

but then we got just complete drama and chaos with a set piece from christian ballistic apparently

he can take set pieces now and like hit the ball in the box that's a promising development for the

us and then georana comes on and does georraine things, and Haji Wright continues being the clutches player alive. And the U.S. win 3-1. I don't understand what's so complicated about this. Supernormal game. So we are going to get into a lot of what went wrong for the United States before it went right. We'll also talk about some positives. Joe, you've kind of laid it all out there in a quick summary. And I would just add to that with everything you said about Jamaica. For this U.S. team, my surface level read after at full time and before going back and watching some stuff was basically that it felt like the U.S. also thought this was going to be a Jamaica team that were going to sit off, look to just boot long, not really apply any pressure higher up the field, not really tried to disrupt their build. And so when Jamaica did, especially after going up 1-0, it felt to the, it felt like at times the U.S. wanted to turn it and be like, hey, this is what you guys were supposed to do. Stop it. We talked about this. Let us not complete lateral passes on our own, please. So that was a very confusing thing. And I think by the time we got to halftime, my hope was that we would see the U.S. come out, inspired in the second half, make some changes, fix the things that weren't really working, and have a bit more sharpness to them. And at times they did and at times they did not.

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