Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our review of the USMNT's 3-1 win over Venezuela, the friendly in Fort Lauderdale, not Miami, the first game of Marizio Pochitino's 1st January camp.

We'll talk about the game, the best performers, what we learned and what we want to see from the

USMNT next. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today for some Saturday night podcasting,

Taylor Rockall here. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. It's an eventful day. We've got the US game.

We've got the Washington commanders playing the Detroit Lions tonight. I know you're both very

excited for that one. Graham, you staying up?

Sorry, was that a sporting event or actual lions fighting each other? Because that may determine my decision there. I don't know what the spread is, but I feel like Vegas thinks that this could go

the way of people fighting actual lions for the commanders. But we'll see. We'll see how it goes.

I'm more nervous about that one as a commanders fan than I certainly was about this one from a US perspective. I thought maybe we'd end up getting a very dull sort of nil-nil-nill game. The US doesn't always perform that well in January camp, but this was a good win, I would say. Not fully comfortable, but not uncomfortable either. There we go.

Thank you very much, Taylor Rock. Graham, Rutherland, also here. I'm sure you also were fully aware

that the Washington team were playing the Detroit Lions tonight, as I was. Very good. Yes, totally.

That's what I'm staying up for tonight. To be honest, I had a great time. I love a Saturday night in Florida.

You get great Chicago pizza there. Spiritually, I'm sure there's a nuno's in Fort Lauderdale somewhere. So I was, spiritually, I was there watching this game. But yeah, I agree with Taylor. This, I mean, it's not a great idea to put too much on these matches, but I thought it went about as well as we could have hoped for. was a match that the US largely controlled it was played on their terms and and there were some things at half

time pox spoke about some positional um concerns at halftime when he gave that little um half time

interview to to t and t but i think with these games you look for individuals who emerge as players who could potentially

make that step up, and we maybe got a couple of those.

Oh, nice.

You got a half-time interview on TNT.

I watched this game in Spanish on NBC because I do not have HBO.

Listen, HBO, you cancel the franchise.

I cancel you.

That's how this thing works, okay?

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