Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

And with me to break down the USA's 6-2 win over Panama is a man who enjoyed Joe Aquini getting a brace.

It's Joe Alowrie.

Hello, Joe.

Thank you very much for joining me today.

Of course.

I love the name parallels between me and him. I appreciate your wife, cluing me in on the pronunciation after I've butchered it several times over my last few appearances. Joe Aquini and I, I think, would get on just fine. Yeah, Joe Akini, Joe Lowry. I did also think if we're talking about braces, we could have gone with Sebastian Joto, but that felt a little bit more sweaty.

It was more work to be done there. Yeah, that one was a little bit forced. I'd give that a four out of ten, but the Joaquini one is a solid eight out of ten. All right. Well, I appreciate that because I kind of hate myself for it. But I figure if Darrell wants to begin with puns, I will continue that to the

extent that I can for as long as I can until they make me physically ill. What did not make me physically

ill was a 6-2 win, as I said, the United States with that win over Panama, not the strongest

Panama team we've ever seen. Joe and I are going to take a look at some of the goals. We're not

going to break them down all individually, but what we're going to try to do is talk at least about some of them and what we could learn from them in terms of general takeaways. We could talk a little bit about why the second half was maybe slightly less exciting, and then maybe some big picture takeaways who had a good time, who maybe heard themselves a little bit, what are some things we saw that we think we'll see more of going forward? What are some things we maybe won't see anymore? I have a couple of people that I think we might not see, not necessarily from this roster. But let's start with the lineup for today, if that works for you, Joe. The United States go with a somewhat similar shape, or mostly similar shape, but with a few different personnel.

Did you like the lineup or did you have any concerns?

Yeah, I like the lineup.

I had the opportunity to talk with Jason Davis on the radio before this game, previewing this match.

And he asked me, how would you like to see the U.S. lineup or how many changes or what continuity do you want to see? And I think Berthar struck the balance for me of what I was looking for in this game. Not that that really amounts to much. But he had a lot of players back on the field from the Wales game. He had the starting midfield, for example, all back. He had Tyler Adams at the 6th, Weston McKinney and Eunice Musa as the two

eights. But there were differences, right? There were differences. It was Joe Aquini up top instead

of Sebastian Leggett. It was Ulianas instead of Conrad on the left wing, although he and Giorina

switched sides quite a bit over the course of these 90 minutes. Reggie Cannon was playing right

back and that shifted Serginio Dest from right back

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