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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

USMNT v Mexico deep-dive review: Dos a Cero! How the U.S. put together the best performance of Gregg Berhalter's tenure

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What. A. Game. On this episode, Taylor and Joe sink their teeth into the USMNT's 2-0 World Cup Qualifying win over Mexico. How did the U.S. take down their rivals for the third consecutive time in a calendar year? Who played especially well? And what did Taylor learn from being at the game in Cincinnati? We talk about all that - and much more - on the show.

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0:57.9

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and before I introduced my co-host, let me just say,

1:02.4

Dos Acero.

1:04.4

Now that I've gotten that out of my system, for now, I'm joined by Joe Lowry, who did a heck of a job tonight,

1:10.5

running our live pre- and post postgame shows over on BR Live or the BR app. Excuse me. Joe, a solid night for you across the board, I have to say. Oh, Taylor, this should not be about me in any way. Are you kidding me? Well, first of all, thank you for saying those nice things. that was very kind of you. And those shows were tons of fun, and I'm stoked to do them again on Tuesday, pre and post game for Jamaica. But enough about that. This performance, man, Dosacero is the perfect way to put it because that's exactly what it was. This is the first time in the last three games against Mexico, all wins, by the way. This is the first time that the U.S. has not only won, but actually been the better team on the field,

1:29.3

pretty much undisputably. What a performance from them. The first half, sure, there were dips and there were problems here and there, and we'll talk about all that stuff. But man, the beginning of that half, and really all of the second half, the goal, Christian Polisic getting getting the U.S. on the board with what I think

2:00.8

was his first touch in this game. Weston McKinney then sealing the game and sealing Dos Ocero. What a nightmare. And you're there. You're in Cincinnati right now as we're talking. I am indeed. I'm still in the stadium. I'm in one of the TV broadcast booths. We'll see how long they let us stay because we're recording this at about 1 a.m. I'm assuming they're going to want

2:00.3

to shut down the stadium. So hopefully no one comes in and kicks me out in the middle of it. But it was amazing to be here. It's my first ever World Cup qualifier, or at least World Cup qualifier at like this stage in World Cup qualifying. Like maybe I've been to an early stage one against Cuba or something like that, but USA, Mexico, a slightly bigger deal and I believe it's also my first Mexico game

2:17.5

in person and so early stage one against Cuba or something like that, but USA, Mexico, a slightly bigger deal.

2:35.2

And I believe it's also my first Mexico game in person. And so for both of those to combine

2:40.0

in a dosacero win was pretty awesome, I have to say. But so too were the United States. I thought

2:46.0

it was their best performance under Burrhalter that we've seen. Maybe one of their best performances

2:50.1

ever. Maybe that's too strong. But I feel like to be as dominant as they were and as strong as they were against Mexico, really from start to finish. A few adjustments here, a few changes there. But for the most part, it seemed like they had a game plan. They executed that game plan. And then they continued to do so and ended up with a two-no win. Dos a zero, Joe, dos a zero.

3:07.4

Taylor, so we usually go through and do the rewatches on games like this. And instead, for you, I know you watched little snippets back, but you went to press conferences, which is great. And we can talk about some of those things in Beralta's comments, especially maybe as they relate to the Jamaica game and some things he said about that. But man, as you were doing those things in Sincet, I was rewatching this game.

3:59.1

And usually when I rewatch, I think I end up feeling more negative about things. And I start to nitpick and pull out different things that are valid, sure, but are a little bit more on the negative side. This is the first US game in a while that I can remember rewatching and thinking that was actually better than I thought it was the first time around. Maybe because I was a little nervous, a little antsy in the first, you know, the first viewing of this game, things were, things were chaotic. A lot of things were happening on the field at the same time. But man, going through this thing again, the lows weren't as low as I thought they were. The highs were maybe not as high initially as they turned out to be when I rewatched again. I mean, there was just a lot of things to like in this

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