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Hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell here to discuss the USA's routine opening win over Sweden in the Olympics.

Just kidding. That's not how it went.

I thought that might be how it went and I was just sleep deprived, waking up at 5 a.m.,

did not wake up at kickoff at 4.30 for this game. Woke up a little bit late and was surprised by the result. Joining me to break down a 3-0 emphatic win for Sweden over the U.S. Women's National Team are up first. Jordan Angelie. Jordan. What time were you awake for this one? How is your morning disrupted or chaotic as a result? Yeah, I did actually get up at

430, but it turns out when you get up at 430, you do still miss a little bit of the games when you

don't know which app to watch it on. I was like going back and forth on all my apps, but I finally

found it a few minutes in and I made it. No coffee because I did take a power nap right afterwards.

That's the way to do it. That's the way to do it. Yeah, I always make that mistake as well. I'm like, all right, kickoff is it this time. So I will wake up two minutes before that. And then I will be 10 minutes late for the game. Silly. But Jordan was awake at 430. Joe, you might have been awake at 4.30. Your time. I doubt you were awake at 1.30. Or did you stay up to watch this whole thing? No. So this was at 1.30 out here in the

western portion of the United States. So I slept all the way until 6 a.m. watched the game,

then watched it back over again, at least watch large stretches of it back over again. Yeah, it just, it just wasn't, it just wasn't going to be. It just wasn't going to be for me at 1.30 a.m. Sorry, guys. How different, Joe, was your experience watching it the first time to the rewatch? Because this, with the U.S. men, it's a, it's a bit, they might win, they might lose, they might win emphatically, they might lose emphatically. And it's always sort of, in my mind, open at the start of the game. With this one, it's Sweden. They've caused the U.S. problems in the past, but I still thought with how dominant the United States have been, they would be comfortable, if not confident, in this one. And for it to go the way it did, I was

pretty surprised. I did have to sort of reset myself for the second viewing. How was that process for

you? So I knew the score before I started watching it initially. And so I was kind of already

prepared for what was going to happen. And there's advantages and disadvantages to knowing the

score. I think it can cause biases. But it does sort of help you know what to look for. And that's not

always the right way to do it and the right way to watch games. But I came into this match at 6 a.m.

Knowing, OK, Sweden, do some things right. It's really unlikely that you score three goals against

the United States without doing some things right. So I was looking from the start to figure out, okay, how are they causing the U.S. problems? What are they doing well? And then rewatch was just looking for more depth on those points. So it wasn't all that different, just more in depth the second time around. And we are going to talk a lot about the U.S. what they did, what they didn't do,

what they can do after this game. But Jordan, let's switch our attention to Sweden for a moment

who did go with a back for something approximating a 4-2-3-1 or a 433, depending on where you

want to put Aslani. What were your expectations for Sweden coming into this game and how

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