USMNT v Martinique deep-dive review: Dike, Busio, and Williamson start, goals galore, tactical changes, and much more
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🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Taylor and Joe are back to talk about the USMNT’s 6-1 win over Martinique in their second game of the Gold Cup. What did we make of Gregg Berhalter’s decision to change the U.S.’s shape? What did the U.S. do well? What needs to improve? And what would we like to see against Canada? All that, plus love for James Sands’ performance, Matt Turner’s late save, Daryl Dike’s second goal, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome, everyone, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer show. |
| 0:25.0 | My name is Taylor Rockwell with me today to discuss the USM&T's emphatic win over Martinique in the Gold Cup group stage is the new president of the James Sands fan club. |
| 0:34.9 | It's Joe Lowry. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi Joe. |
| 0:36.2 | Congrats on the new gig. |
| 0:37.9 | It's an honor, and I mean that completely seriously. I would like to thank my mom and thank |
| 0:42.9 | everybody else who got me to this position. Onward James Sands and onward the U.S. |
| 0:48.3 | men's national team. Is that an inappropriate speech for this role? I mean, I think you normally |
| 0:53.3 | don't want that to end in a question mark if you're trying to give the political |
| 0:56.2 | stump speech. |
| 0:57.1 | It's more of an onward than onward. But I think aside from that, yeah. There it is. There we go. Perfect. So we thought James Sands might start this game. We had an inkling. we're going to talk about the U.S.'s |
| 0:51.8 | lineup formation, the way this game played out, |
| 0:54.9 | all that good stuff in just a moment. |
| 0:57.0 | But first, Joe... We're going to talk about the U.S.'s lineup formation, the way this game played out, all that good |
| 1:12.4 | stuff in just a moment. But first, Joe, I want to talk about Martinique for a moment, because |
| 1:18.8 | Martinique, I think the way this game has been discussed after the fact that full-time, we went |
| 1:25.4 | back to the studio and the immediate conversation was, of course, |
| 1:28.3 | well, it's just Martinique. And at that point, I turned off the studio, which is what you should |
| 1:31.8 | probably do. And I think that is a fair point to make because there has been a lot of hyperbole |
| 1:38.5 | about this team before this game, but obviously during this game and after as well, this US |
| 1:43.3 | performance, this US.S. result. |
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