USMNT vs Costa Rica review, plus: our favorite moments from USWNT v Panama
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🗓️ 2 February 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Lost to discuss from the USMNT's 1-0 win over Costa Rica. We look at the team's attacking and defensive shape, the patterns of play we saw successfully implemented, the individual performances of players like Jesus Ferreira and Ulysses Llanez, and plenty more.
Starting at 46:30, we take a look at the USWNT's 8-0 win over Panama. It was all a little too easy for the US because Panama provided way too much space to play into, but we highlight the moments we enjoyed, including little bits of magic from Tobin Heath, Emily Sonnett, and Rose Lavelle.
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| 0:00.0 | Your calendar stacked. Lectures back to back, with deadlines to make, exams at stake. |
| 0:07.2 | Backpack, jam-packed. Brain, sidetracked. It's time to launch a fight back with a liquid-form jetpack. |
| 0:15.8 | It's time to crack a costa. Revision slump, get a jump. |
| 0:22.2 | Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today. |
| 0:27.0 | Cracker Costa. |
| 0:28.3 | Carta. |
| 0:31.8 | The Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:57.0 | My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who loves it when the US men's and women's national teams beat their Conquer Calf rivals. |
| 1:05.0 | His name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello. |
| 1:06.9 | Hello. |
| 1:07.7 | I do. |
| 1:08.5 | I think it was maybe less expected for one than the other, but I'm good with it overall. |
| 1:12.7 | It was cumulatively 9-0. Yes. That's what I'm going with. That's what I'm going with. |
| 1:16.5 | We're going to talk U.S. Women's National Teams 8-0 win over Panama later in the show. |
| 1:21.1 | We're going to lead with the U.S. men's national teams 1-0 win over Costa Rica. |
| 1:26.8 | Here's why I'm excited, Taylor Rockwell. We played the kids, mostly. Costa Rica played a pretty senior domestic team. Guzman, Orenia, guys that we know, guys who've been around the block versus some U.S. guys who've only just got their first look at the block. And the US looked good. Yeah, I would say the US looked better. |
| 1:45.1 | I mean, the United States forced Costa Rica to change what they were doing. Yes. I think right there, that shows you that the United States is kind of on the front foot, going at Costa Rica, causing problems in a way that the United States is used to having done to them. Okay, let's talk big picture sort of tactical narrative of this game before we get into player performances and things that we spotted. |
| 1:43.5 | What do you mean by what you just said, the US sort of forced Costa Rica to change? I mean, in that we thought we were maybe going to see the dance that's kind of defending in the flat 442. That has been problematic when you're going up against a team that tends to have numbers in the middle of the field. |
| 2:17.6 | That's what we thought Costa Rica would have. |
| 2:19.3 | Instead, it was Costa Rica who tried to come out in that 4-4-2. |
| 2:21.6 | The U.S., by the way, they set up, especially defensively, in more of a 433. Yeah. We'll get into the details of that later. that I think it necessitated Costa Rica dropping into a four, five one, |
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