Where is the hope for Poch’s USMNT after Switzerland embarrassment?
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
After the United States’ 4-0 loss to Switzerland on Tuesday night, Taylor, Graham, and Joe dive into what went wrong for Pochettino’s team. What was behind his lineup choices? Who struggled? Did we learn anything at all? And how can the USMNT improve? All that — and more — on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:01.0 | Hello, Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:24.9 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and boy, oh boy, have we got a show ahead of us? |
| 0:28.9 | We're recording this a day after the U.S. were beaten 4-0, but it felt like 10-0 by a comprehensively better Switzerland national team. |
| 0:37.8 | I don't know how much time we're going to spend on the actual game in this episode |
| 0:40.8 | because I think the fan base collectively switched their brains off after the fourth goal |
| 0:44.5 | inside the opening 36 minutes. |
| 0:46.6 | But what we will try to do is get a solid understanding of where this national team is at |
| 0:51.1 | present, what potch is or is it doing, how things can improve, |
| 0:51.3 | and what our realistic expectations should be going forward. Joe Lowry, that's a simple enough remit for a 45 to 60 minute long episode. No? Easy peasy. We got this down. So you said 90 to 120 minute episode? Is that? That's what I heard. Part mini series? Right. Okay, cool. Yeah, Definitely. We can do that. Easy. |
| 0:52.9 | All right. Joe's in. |
| 0:54.9 | Graham Ruffman, a question for you. |
| 1:11.1 | You are, if my source Part miniseries? Right, okay, cool. Yeah, definitely. We can do that. Easy. All right. |
| 1:11.7 | Joe's in. |
| 1:07.3 | Graham Ruffman, a question for you. You are, if my sources are correct, Scottish. Can you confirm? I can confirm that, yes, unfortunately. All right. Scotland recently lost three to one at home to Iceland. I'm assuming that was not fun? No, it was not. I was out that given. |
| 1:10.2 | Would that Scotland team beat this US team? |
| 1:12.4 | Oh, who knows and who. Joe nods, I nod. No, it was not. I was at that game. Would that Scotland team beat this US team? |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, who knows and who cares quite frankly. |
| 1:32.0 | You think so? |
| 1:32.9 | Yes. |
| 1:33.3 | Scotland right now. |
| 1:34.5 | This US team, Graham, the one we watched yesterday. |
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