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

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and what a way to start your Friday, as Arlo White kept reminding us,

the U.S. women's national team squeaked past the Netherlands in their Olympic quarterfinal,

courtesy of some very well-taken penalties.

We're going to talk about those and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Here to help me do so are two wonderful people.

First up, my friend and yours, a person who loves it when the U.S. scores an absurd number of goals that don't end up counting.

It's Jordan Angelie.

Jordan.

Have you had time to catch your breath after that result?

I'm actually shocked that they scored nine goals that haven't counted in this tournament.

Credit the other team, but wow.

I feel like I have like a little bit of an anxiety hangover right now.

There's just, I mean, you mentioned something to me before we even started.

I don't even remember that happening.

So we'll see how this goes.

It was emotional.

It really was. Yeah, happy Friday to you. It was very emotional and very like simultaneously. Like I understand why this is happening, but also this isn't

supposed to be happening. And so it was just a strange world to see the U.S. women sort of

struggling to take control of the game. I think for large chunks of it, we'll obviously talk about why that was the case, if that was the case, if we all agree. But we should also introduce our other co-host today as a person who, I'm assuming, has at least 10 minutes of material on the importance of Julie Ertz, or if not he should, it's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. I do. Do you want me to

start that routine now or should we do that later? What do you feel in Taylor? Okay. Yes, yes. Take a deep breath and then there can be no other breaths until you finish what you have to say about Julie Ertz. And when we hear the thud of your head hitting the table, we'll know that you're finished. Right. Okay. I know. We won't start right with Julie It's, although I do have a thought on her very early because I think she told us a little bit about what the United States was doing because with no crowd noise, you could hear a lot of the yelling and she was doing plenty of it. But I think we should start with the overall, like basically the basic approach to this game for both teams. First off, I just want to confirm something that I have not checked.

This was the quarterfinal, right? Yes. All right, just making sure. Got a little nervous there. Okay, so we have the United States versus the Netherlands, obviously a rematch of the 2019 Women's World Cup final, a fairly familiar team for the United States, a fairly familiar shape. the Dutch in, I would say a similar

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