Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America - #546: San Siro goalfest, Béticos love Johnny, Pepi brace

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

Tim Weah scores and Wes gets two assists in an epic edition of the Derby D'Italia. Pepi gets a brace, Tillman scores and continues to deputize at the 6, while Vince believes Cardoso's performance was the most moving by an American in club play in at least two years. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episodes ad-free, plus any bonus episodes. Patrons at $5 a month or more also get access to Clip Notes, a video of key moments on the field we discuss on the show, plus all patrons get access to our private Discord server, live call-in shows, and the full catalog of historic recaps we've made: https://www.patreon.com/scuffedAlso, check out Boots on the Ground, our USWNT-focused spinoff podcast headed up by Tara and Vince. They are cooking over there, you can listen here: https://boots-on-the-ground.simplecast.comAnd check out our MERCH, baby. We have better stuff than you might think: https://www.scuffedhq.com/store Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer. Hey everybody, it's the Monday review. Lots to catch up on from the weekend. Let's start in Milan, where Inter hosted Juventus and it finished four to four. Just a massive game at the San Ciro. Vince, I know you were watching. Oh, man, you know, you know I was tuned in, baby. You know I was tuned in. And I was pleasantly surprised because we've seen a lot of these big games over the

past few years with the Ventus in them and most of them become quite boring, you know, including the one earlier this year when they played Napoli. I think that happened during my sabbatical, but I found that one very interesting, just watching how Conte and his team just kind of like choked the life out of that game. But when this match started, let's say we got about five minutes into it. and then I slowly started realizing, oh, Allegri is gone. You know, from time to time, I forget that because Weston is still playing. But Allegri is gone.

And Juventus played a more exciting brand of soccer now. And so when you're watching this match, I could just tell that we were in for something because both teams came out ready to play some ball. Weston looked up to it from the beginning. Tim looked up to it. And I could just tell, I could just tell we were going to eat today. You could see more than I could, because when I watched, I thought, well, Inter is doing a really good job of keeping Juventus from playing the ball through the middle.

You know, they're allowing them to knock it around, horseshoe of death style. But any time they try to play it into the middle of the field, just get suffocated, choked, to use your phrase. but they found a way to circumvent that, didn't they? The thing about a horseshoe of death is when you got a Francisco Conchaseau out there on the wing, you know, you can just horseshoe with death it out to him. Yeah. And he was out there getting busy. And so he's a busy little man, isn't he?

Great player. And so you can keep him from playing in the middle, but it's like, man, you're going to be 1V1 versus him every time. And he was making sure that he was letting inter know. he was there. I appreciate the ref decided, or not the ref, the ref noticed that this is going to be a game with goals. And anything that might have been a penalty, would just immediately call it penalty.

That's not even though I think about twice about it. I had to look up if Italy had Barr. They do. I mean, they do. Not this moment, though. And no one was that upset. Actually, I haven't rewatched all the plays. Maybe they were penalties.

But it just happened so fast. they were kicking the ball and the goal. They were definitely penalties. And yeah, yeah, so the var was not needed. The var was not needed. I mean, look at the one where the handball happened at the same time as the kind of kick. Yeah, right, right. I'm not here to complain about referees.

I just, it felt like someone needed to slow down and say, yeah, let's just look at that one more time. I mean, I think you're right. But there wasn't due process. When you, when you, you, kick someone solely in the meat of the buttocks, you know, you got, you got all, you got the entire length of that cheek, you know what I'm saying, venturing into the, into the crack area. Like that whole, that whole length of that, that left cheek, you know, Mr. Kalulu,

made sure he got all that. So, so at that point, I mean, yes, the ball, it would have, it would have been a handball if he didn't make that challenge. But, um, he did. And it's like, I mean, I mean, what else could you do? just kicked him right. And an old dude, who's the color commentator? He's like, how does Kalulu not see him? He's right there in front of him. Because the other one, I don't remember what the other penalty is.

It was Danilo, and Danilo basically called the penalty. Danilo basically called the penalty on himself. You know, he was like, oh, brother, as soon as he kicked him, you know. Yeah, so I was going to say Brammer, but I knew it wasn't Brammer. But, yeah, Danilo, like, that dude, the dude he kicked. It was like skirting in front of him. He was about to kick the ball away. Boom.

He pops in, gets in there right before he follows through. But like Kalulu's was a little crazy. It sounds like they were obvious penalties. I must have just been in a mood. They felt sudden. I agree with you on that. Thank you. So, yeah, they get the first goal on a penalty on the Danilo foul that is Inter does.

And then, but Yuvé get their first goal, I think, you know, circumventing this, this midfield, what's the word? Blockade. Yeah, blockade. They're kicking it around, goes over to the right side, back over to the left side, and then they play a ball to the back post for Weston McKinney. Lovely pass, and then he just does a textbook knock down with his right in-step across the face of goal for Vlajavich.

The perfect soccer decision and perfect execution. Vlajavich puts it away, 1-1. This is what West. gets you just class. That's right, baby. And it wasn't even unselfishness because it was just the perfect decision. Yeah. None of those considerations entered.

I think. Moral ones. You're saying moral considerations didn't come into play. No moral questions there, correct. Or ethical, whatever the word would be. That is a decent point because, you know, Weston has had a goal. I mean, take it, I mean, literally taking from. from him by Dusan Vlovich, you know, but it does seem that their friendship is strong.

They love to mock each other coming out for training, et cetera. And Dousan, I mean, he knows where his bread is buttered. He's not going to spoil the relationship too much with Western McKinney. So I don't know if he brought him like a bottle of wine or something after he took that goal last season. But Weston has continued to feed that man. A lot of players would have shot that. Yeah. He could have shot it.

He could have scored it if you... But the percentages are... You play the percentages. So I do wonder, like, do strikers have to make amends for their... For their gesticulating during a match? You know, all the teammates that you may have shown up or whatever, do people just understand? That's the way of the striker.

I think there's an understanding that they're up there, they're alone, there's a lot of pressure on them to score. If they're not scoring, they're not feeling their self-worth. They're not getting that. And so there's going to be some understandable gesturing at you. And you just, I think you accept it. Fair enough. I'm just wondering, because, you know, you see, like, NFL quarterbacks by that old

lineman, like a Gucci bag or something. They get the whole old lineman, an ATV or some shit. You know, I'm just wondering if the strikers, you know, beginning or maybe the end of the season once the goals are in the bag. Maybe I think that might get you got some reward. The second goal for YuVe to make it to 1 comes less than, I don't think it comes about six minutes after the Vlovich one. Conce Sao, the aforementioned, goes at McCartarian on the right, just dusts him, leaves him for dead. I think McItarian is not really that interested in defending, no, carefully here.

But anyway, he gets eliminated by Conce Sal. He slides it across to Waya at the edge of the six between the goalkeeper and the center back. Waya reaches back. One touches it in with the top of his right boot. Everybody says it's a really easy finish. I'm not sure that's true. But anyway, it's a goal. Nice goal.

Wayas second of the season. Well, Bell, so I need you to stand on this. Whenever you have soccer technique opinions, I mean, you know, you are the real hooper of the podcast. So, you know, I mean, let the people know. Is that an easy finish or not? Well, I mean, it's not extremely difficult or anything. But, you know, to get that right where you just, you direct it with that foot in, I mean, you have to be a pretty good player to do that, I think. I think most attackers in Syria would be expected to do it.

I just don't want to gloss over it and say it's, you know, super easy. Okay. Also, one more question. Do we give any blame to Tim for the first goal, the first conceded goal, the penalty? You know, he got beat slightly to allow that crossing in the first place. Maybe a little. I definitely give him some blame on the second one, or the second penalty that is. Of course, the second is a little crazy.

Yeah. I thought he was kind of messy, like, with the ball. Tim was. I mean, he did some good stuff, but he also had, I don't know, three pretty noticeable giveaways, including the one leading to the second penalty. But, you know, he also nearly hit a banger, and he did score a goal. Hard not to view the game as a success for him. For sure, for sure.

Thought the banger was in, man. That thing was in. But, yeah, next goal. He can strike a ball. Yeah. Yeah, Wes got passed around a little bit on the, on the, on the, McCartarian goal. I'm not blaming him, I'm not really blaming him much because McIntyrean had three white shirts in front of him when he scored.

But, you know, Wes was in the middle of that triangle that they formed with the give and go. Yeah. That was my, that was my, that was going to be my main question for y'all. Was that, you know, he got, he got one-toot around. But it's like, man, like, the dude, usually, because I was why, I think I saw this in maybe the game. that Tanner Testman was playing, like the Leon match. But it's like usually the one-two will cause like a centerback to come out and get the one-two man.

And then the one-two man plays it to somebody else. And then they're like in on goal, you know? But it's like, hey, the dude they completed the one-two was able to get that shot off, not have it like blocked by any of the defenders around them and scored the goal. And it's just like, man, that's a little tough on West. We would like to see Wes like, you know, maybe get a body on, make a turn or whatnot. But, you know, I mean, you're playing in these high-level games. You're going to get got.

That one made it 2-2. Then we get the second penalty for Inter. And this one is, Wea gets just blown up, dribbling and dribbling in the, just inside, Inter's half. So it's a counterattack going the other way. He hustles back, slides to intervene on the cross, but his intervention sprays it towards Dumfries. And that's when he gets spanked with the boot by Kalulu. And, yeah, I mean, it was a handball, but it was simultaneously a boot to the butt. So, I mean, Wayas giveaway is the main problem.

I don't know. It's a little unlucky to slide. You know, he's hustling back. He's doing everything he can. It's a little unlucky that the ball sprayed the way it did. But there you go. Three, two. I mean, yes, but.

I don't know. I think we saw a little bit of panic from Timney. He didn't really need to slide on that. There wasn't anybody around for real? Like, I mean, just being earnest. A little dramatic, maybe. I think after you make that mistake,

you're going to a not full panic, but a little bit. You got a little bit of panic or somewhere in the back of your head. I got to show everybody that I know what I did wrong, and I'm here to make it right. Second McKinney assist is a good pass out wide to Yieldees in the second half, and then Yieldees does the rest to make it 4-3,

gets another goal later. I mean, he just comes on and grabs two goals to get the draw, so there it is. Good result for Yuvai, I think. They're sitting third in the league now, one point behind Inter, five points behind Nopoli. Yeah. I mean, I think we might be, for the first time,

maybe. And the time the Weston's been here, I think we're looking at a Scudato contender. Yeah. This is a good team we're watching. I don't think we've been able to say that about the other teams. Do you guys have an opinion on Waya how good Waya looks playing on the left versus how a good he looks playing on the right? You know, I miss having that hard-driven, right-footed cross. He puts in from the other side. That would be one thing we're giving up that I miss.

I mean, he's never going to play on the left for the U.S. Or not very often unless Poulosick gets hurt, I suppose. To me, he looks much more comfortable on the right. I just think he, you know, maybe he can develop a little bit more as a player who can cut in on the left and cook. And he definitely has that, you know, he can rip one from 20 yards. So that's nice. but I feel like when he goes up the right, when he's on the right, he knows to go, right?

And everything's sort of, he's so good in that sort of discreet situation on the right side. You got to keep him on the right for me. He knows what to do. You get to that in line, put that fizz. Put that fizz in, rinse, repeat, do it over and over and over. But yeah, I've never been, never been, I was about to say, confused. too impressed or convinced I think convince was the word

I've never been too convinced by Tim on the left whenever I've seen it haven't seen it a tonne but yeah And I guess most players are one or the other But he is quite right footed Yeah Is my Memory of looking up at some point

Yeah And you need like a different You need like a different type of He doesn't have a lot of short space quickness nor hip fluidity. So if you're playing on the left, you know, to get that, to get that yard, to get that shot off with your right foot is contingent upon you kind of being able to stop, start. You know, he's tricky with the ball, but like his just, his body composition and his,

I guess, his fast twitch muscle fibers, don't necessarily allow it, man. It's just, it's easier for him to just run, do your, do your 20, 50, the yard sprint or whatever with the ball on your right foot get to the in line and then do what you want from there i think he's got a lot of muscle memory on that stuff i got to say i was got an uber an uber to the airport in minneapolis yesterday morning me and my wife and the driver the driver was librarian i asked him what he thought of uh george wea and he told me he's the worst president in the history of the country. I was like, wow, that's interesting, but I'm not hearing it.

I'm not hearing it. At that point, I would have put out the proud and excited video and just been like, man, but watch this, man. Yeah, yeah. At that point, I mean, he was getting into some really detailed domestic political stuff that I didn't, real up on, and I didn't even bring up Timoya, you know. It just didn't seem appropriate. George Wayo was in the stands at the PSG, PSV game, I believe.

Oh, was he? Yeah, they showed him at the beginning. He's not the president of Liberia anymore for what it's worth. Right. Oh. Yeah. So he's got more time. So absence did not make the heart grow fonder for this Liberian Uber driver?

Yeah, he gave me the sense that, There was a movement of young sort of progressives who seized on George Wea as a guy that they could, who was famous enough and controllable enough to sort of move this progressive agenda forward. And it didn't work out as they had hoped, I guess. Okay. We'll have to dig in on that a little bit. Yeah. I'm skeptical.

I'm skeptical. I think he's probably a great president. He may not have been. I don't think this necessarily is the final word on the issue. We better not turn out he did some terrible things that we're now on the hook for here. I mean, I was under the understanding that this is the prevailing sentiment. I will say that. Really?

Yeah. Yes. I'm going to temper my endorsement. Overall, scoring a goal. This was good for Tim Wea, but Yildes did come on and score two goals. How we feel? I mean, I guess he's in competition with Conce Salle and Yieldese for minutes. Yep.

And Nico Gonzalez when he comes back. Yeah, he's going to be, I mean, I'm starting Yieldies over Tim if I'm the manager, aren't you guys? I've been the belief that Yvese has been doing Yieldes wrong since, like, last season, man. Every time he comes into the game, he's injecting some quality. He's a good player. He is, yeah.

I think Tim is who he is, kind of is who he is. He's so valuable for the U.S. He probably is a rotational player for a team like Juventus over the course of a season. That's fine. That's fine with me.

Somebody got to catch Napoli now. That's right. Bologna Milan postponed because of flooding of the Po River. I don't think it's that crazy what's going on there, but enough to cancel the game.

The Poe River, I think it's probably the most important river that I don't really know much of anything about. I'm going to do a little bit of research on that for next time. It flows through Turin. If you grow up in the fruited plains of America, it's not much of a river. No, but we need to be understanding

toward Europe and not expect they have rivers. like the mighty Mississippi Yeah Or the Missouri Yeah A lot of people actually consider The lower Mississippi

Kind of be part of the Missouri River It's another thing we can get into at some point No I don't get into that What are you talking about? Oh it's coming in faster Missouri's coming in faster than the Mississippi Yeah

Yeah but it comes in the side Mississippi's just going straight It's straight down Minneapolis St. Paul straight to northern Rocking and down off those mountains Yeah, like 9,000 miles away from where it hits Mississippi, Chris. I think as a Midwesterner, you have too much kind of a motion tied up in this. Because you probably came into with ideas about this river that I don't have.

You know, I grew up in a state that's bracketed by the two rivers. It's got Missouri on one side. That's what I'm saying. Mississippi on the other side. How about Johnny, Johnny Cardoso. looking dashing in white and green puts on a show 1-0 win over Adletico Madrid

Man what a show he did put on I mean did you hear the appreciation from the I think they're called Beticos Did you hear the appreciation from them in the stadium It was rising and rising As Johnny made more and more plays

And then I think there was like a double tackle in like the 65th minute, I want to say. I think the initial one was like on Rarigo DePaul. And then the second one was on another Adletti player. And when he finally won it came away with the ball, it was just like, they were going crazy. Oh, man, that's what you love to see. That's what you love.

I mean, top tier, prime time performance against a big club, a club that there's reports that they will be playing a league game against Barcelona in Miami in December. December, which my sister told me about this like two, two, three months ago because they got the call to start working on like marketing and advertising for it. But I'm pretty sure that's happening. But yeah, just incredible. Doing everything too. Winning the ball, just, I mean, it was one time he won the ball in the box, arms behind his back. Somebody's trying to to drivel him. He just goes down to a knee.

Arms still behind the back. Just the confidence that he was playing. And we talked about it last week. The fact that he was looking like he's getting back to being Johnny that started with Betty's in this last season. Like when he transferred over there and got to plan and whatnot. Looking like he was getting back to himself. And boom.

Half turn. Nasty. Playing people in on goal. one touch passes long ball I mean come on man played like three sexy through balls I mean and you know that that play you mentioned where he goes down to one knee takes the ball from the guy dribbles over to the corner and then smashes it off a guy for a to win a throw in

he got a standing ovation for that they went going to be a standing oh oh yeah yeah I had been I had been waiting for somebody to take the crown from Taylor Booth's performance against, I think it was A-Z. Is that who Georgie played for? When he played Georgie that one time, I mean, that was the most moving USM&T abroad performance

that I had seen. I think that happened in the 2022. And Johnny Cardoso, you now have the trophy. And I think I have some ideas on what his motivations might have been, but we'll get to that later. But we can keep talking about how he plays. Play it if you want to get into it. I'm excited.

I think this is going to set up a new round of Johnny v. Tyler discourse. That's what I'm talking about. Because we still don't know what Potch exactly thinks of or not at all thinks of them. He hasn't had him in camp. He definitely is very much on the list of players from whom Potch needs to get a lot more than we've gotten so far. and I think the top two on the list are Malik and Johnny. Can't be this good against a perennial contender in La Liga in a game that matters so much

and then just be kind of crap for the U.S. You know, it just doesn't make sense. Kind of crap is a little bit ungenerous, but not that great. But that's what you meant, though. You didn't like your word choice, but that is the sentiment that you were trying to. Yeah, I mean, He's never been all that convincing in a U.S. shirt. Yeah.

So something's got to give. In a way, at Jamaica is not the place I would guess he would turn that around. I'm hopeful he will, though. Right. The first time we spoke, we basically decided Malik's are starting six. We might have gotten caught in some of the emotion. I don't know. I don't know watching him.

He was really good this game too. Yeah, he was. I mean, against a really bad opponent, but yeah, he's... We've got to figure it out. Come on. It's ridiculous that we got players that are playing this well, who have these tools, and then we come out, we play...

They play for the U.S., and they look... I mean, it's just... It's ridiculous. I mean, I would say Johnny is, you know, if we're ranking the two, Malik, Malik's just not that good yet to me. He's good, good player, good player.

It doesn't mean that there's not some juice to be squeezed, but Johnny is like, you know, we got a whole gallon of orange juice just sitting there. You know, oranges, ripe, beautiful. They've been sitting here from Florida or whatever. They're in the box. they're ready to go. They're ready to go, man.

Doing against athletic and once again, that tackle, I mean, guys, we all talked about that Argentina-Colombia match to Copa America Final. Yeah. You know, Johnny's in their son in the midfield, one of Argentina starting midfielters, son in the midfield. I mean, was the best player on the pitch, man. Like, bar none, was doing it in all phases of the game with the ball, without the ball, was looking absolutely imperious when it comes to tackling and winning the ball of these people.

So like, as good as Malik was just to finish, as good as Malik was against PSG, it's like, he wasn't doing all this, you know, and Malik at this point has never done, been this good against an opponent of this level, I would say. Yeah, that's fair. I was just going to say that we probably have to put attacks on all Argentina national team players in the transfer market at this point because they spend everything they have for the national team. They come back for their clothes. They're just shadows of themselves, you know, for months after like the Copa America performance. Yeah, they enter the pain case. You know, we know about that.

Yeah. They enter the pain cage for the Copa America. Now they're still trying to get the legs. back. Understood. But if I can't, if I can get into my theories as to why we got this performance on this day in particular, you know, Tyler Adams came back the day before, played for Bournemiff, I think, what, a solid 15 minutes? Yeah, solid 15 minutes. Had a, had a contribution on the equalizer, on Bournemouth's equalizer, equalizing goal. there was a I think it was a long ball from

Ashton Phyllis keeper that it got collected by Bormouth a pass to Tyler a first touch pass from Tyler to his teammate his teammate also first times it to his other Bournemouth team I forget I don't know all these names

but then the man just carried it down the field to about maybe like 30 yards from goal a set piece from there then gave Bormiff the equalizer against Aston Villa. And I think we've been trying to make sense of Tyler's

behavior, right, over these past few months. Or at least I have. I'm trying to make sense to Tyler's behavior of the last few months. And if you look at it through a lens of him trying to protect the spot and being very jealous and being, well, maybe not jealous, but very aware, like any good competitor would be with somebody you're competing against, you know what I'm saying, very aware of

Johnny's position and Johnny's career ascendancy and what he's been doing in Spain. I think Tyler has seen all of this right. And he's feeling he might be feeling a little cornered.

His body's not reacting and not acting the way he wants it to. And so he's trying to do everything he can to just make sure that he's downplaying Johnny. You know, we got the reports of Johnny having to have that sit down meeting with Greg

after, I want to say the Columbia match, right? A match where everyone famously played ass. Why did Johnny have to sit down with Greg? No one knows. But I do think, I do think, I thought a lot of the what's that called, players council, or whatever they had, right?

There was a lot of leadership council. Like, you know. Since disbanded, we believe. Or it could be a shadow council. But go on. it probably is a shadow counsel now. It's under the, you know, something they're trying to conduct without

Potch knowing. But I thought a lot of that, a lot of the so-called, you know, put quotes around controversy. Controversy around it was a little bit like whatever, you know, like I had a leadership council in college. I think most American sports teams probably have leadership councils. I mean, you know, et cetera. But I think Tyler might have used his preferential.

status his status as a as a as a as a gold member in the in the burrhalter club to maybe like you know be in his ear hey like i said he was probably sitting on the bench next to bj bj the man with the ipad like hey bj mark that down mark that down bad pass bad pass b j did you get it you know what i'm saying uh bad pass bd oh did you see it did you see him oh bj if i was in there i would have made that tackle i would have made that tackle see you're not getting you're not getting from him what you would give from me, baby. And so I think he campaigned for that sit down with Johnny, which may or may not have put Johnny in a worse headspace than he would have been otherwise.

Okay. Now, also, we lose to Canada. Okay, Johnny is culpable for a goal. Gives the ball away to Canada. They go score a goal. Who pops up and has a rapid reaction podcast for the first time ever? and hasn't had one since. Even though he's still injured,

he was still injured at the time. He didn't have one for these September windows. No, no, no, this was October. He didn't have one for this October window, but for the September window, there he was. Roger Bennett, you know, I don't even know if this was scheduled. They were both in weird hotel rooms. Tyler probably just got on the horn like, hey, Raj,

what you're doing? You know, Raj could have been in England. I don't know. Five hours behind. Like, Tyler, it's 1 a.m. Get up. We're recording, buddy. We're recording, buddy.

I want to make sure that everybody can see my face. Like, hey, I wasn't involved in this disaster. Y'all see, y'all saw who gave the ball away, right? That was Johnny. Johnny Cardoso, J-O-H-N-N-Y-C-A. Johnny is aware that all this is happening. He sees that Tyler comes back and he's like, bro, I got, I got something for your ass, Tyler. you thought that little first time pass with something.

But let me show you this. I'm going to drop a whole bunch of progressive forward one-time passes, and I'm going to win the ball off a plethora of Athleticode Madrid players. And I'm also have an entire stadium cheering for me as I do it. And yeah, so that's just my theory. Y'all let me know. The listeners let me know. Adam Waki, y'all get the first shot of letting me know,

what y'all think of my theory. I think it's an extraordinary contribution to the Johnny Tyler discourse, first and foremost, and that's the most important thing. And I like that you're kind of the main person keeping Tyler honest on all this stuff. And the only one who's formulated like a clear story of what's going on here. I hope that there is a rivalry between Johnny and Tyler, like a palpable sort of hard-edged rivalry. Because it's what we need. It's what we need, we need, we need that.

We need this. I need this. We need the drama. We need, we need the story. There probably is too. I mean, to, like, just to be frank about it for a second, there probably is some, some feelings between the two of them. If any of our boys are going to do this, you know, it would be Tyler, right? Like, he's the, he's the one that would, they would,

make sure to really throw that chip on his shoulder and really get it going. Like, I don't know. And also, Tyler probably is aware that he is not the paragon of elegance on the half turn. He probably notices that Johnny has a little bit more of that than he does. So that probably even brings it home even more. If you were just to look at this game,

you would say Johnny has a lot of more. Right. I think it's on the half turn of Tyler, but, you know, we've seen, it fluctuates a bit with Johnny, time in time. But the peak, what he can do, I mean, phew. Right. It just never looks like that or hasn't looked like that for the U.S. yet. Which, you know, it's all Greg Burrhalter's fault. And so let's say Tyler is back to full fitness.

You're starting him against a way. Jamaica, right? I think so. Yeah. I've seen enough assery from everybody else that, you know, I've circled back around. Tyler is my six, my captain, until otherwise and told. Yeah, we just got to get back to basics a little bit and be real men out there for just one night. Please, just once. Yeah. And I think Tyler is the man to help us do that. So yeah, I mean, it was a really impressive game from Johnny. And Two Feet Elite has a production out there on X.com slash Twitter,

which is worth watching. And then, yeah, Tyler was back, played 15 minutes. I mean, the important thing is he's back. He's back and he's working into fitness. He looks bright and spry out there, I would say. Let's move to Liga. Liga. Tanner gets his second start.

Second league start for Leone. Goes 90. Taking set pieces. Seems like he was mostly all right. Nothing too crazy. He was more impressive maybe in the Bechitas game last week. Yeah, I would probably say more impressive in the Bechitas game. But let's just take a step back.

First of all, all, all my true. Rubidores, where we at, baby. Where we are you at? Rise up. Rise up, man. It's what I'm talking about. I mean, we got, you know, guys, I've strayed away from, I'm always like, anytime we have a good weekend and everybody's like, oh, it's a banner weekend for the U.S.

Advantee. I stay away from that type of talk. I try to stay even keeled. I don't, you know, it's a banner weekend when we score a lot of goals and then, you know, When we don't score a lot of goals and everybody still play as well, nobody's hyping it in that same way. And I do like to take the view that every week's a good week. You see all these guys playing all over the place. I mean, it's incredible.

You know, we still got to make sure we don't lose sight of that. But the way that all these dudes are midfielding, we got proper midfielders out here playing ball, man. And that gets me excited. I guess me very close to saying we have that this was a banner weekend for me. You know, I'm a big fan of the midfielder in general. And yeah, I do think all my troubadours, everybody has been locked in with Tanner since I started really playing. He's improved so much. He's improved so much over these three years from like a raw talented dude that would just pop every once in a while when he like

sprays a long ball or does something athletic that you wouldn't expect a big dude to do on a soccer pitch. And now he's found itself. He's starting for Leon. I think he's basically like a mainstay in that midfield now. Played more at the six against Pashitaz playing as an eight this weekend against Auger. I don't know. No.

This is, yeah, it's good enough for me. So I feel like people could confuse that with the A-N-G-E-R-S. But I'm talking about A-U-X-E-R-E, okay. And just, I mean, the elegance he has. The elegance he has on the pitch, man, just in control at all times. And as the eight, you got to see him basically like receive in half spaces. Did that pretty well. Had a very, very, very nice little one-touch layoff.

from receiving in the half space basically just flicked it behind him to an onrussian player who was able to get across it and just the you know he has like every pass in his bag yeah he did a little croif he did a little croif pass in the buildup you know like a little

is that the one you're talking about or or is a different yeah yeah yeah that's exactly the one I'm talking about yeah yeah that was slick yeah he does have he does have like a little bit of that little bit of pausa that little bit of calm you wouldn't expect he's from Birmingham, Alabama. I guess this is how I'd say.

Right. And that's what's making me excited, man, just seeing this. Like Johnny, Johnny's one thing, not to be xenophobic. You know, like Johnny's one thing, but we were talking about like the American development system or whatever. You know, you see Tanner out here. We're going to get to Aidan Morris. Ada Morris out here touching the ball 80, 90 times a game and mostly doing it well. You know what I'm saying?

Like this is real. bringing a tear to my eye. But yes, Tanner, very elegant on the ball. Every pass in his bag. I guess Pashik Toss, you know, he had a couple like scooped, little scoop balls over the top. Two attackers are like led the shots. Nasty, left-footed, long ball in this match

in the, in the Auxure match. And he's getting better. And the thing is, he's getting better at defense. He's starting to bring it on defense a little bit more, more alert, more aware, and bringing something to the party that you, like when he gets to a ball carrier or whatever to make a play. You know, Bells, you've been on them for playing small a lot of times, and I agree with you. But I also think that was the proper development path.

You know, you don't want somebody just relying on their six-foot-thriness. And now he's figured out how to play with the ball, cut all the mistakes out of his game. You know, like earlier, like early Venetia times, he would just always be good for like a Johnny versus Canada style giveaway. Like two, maybe like two, maybe three a game. They're all gone. They're all out of year. Not anymore, man. And yeah, the defense is coming along.

So I just couldn't be more excited for Tanner. And I think we're looking at maybe a 2,000 minute season for him in Leon. All right. I'm done. Yeah, well, we need Potch and his team to sort of like forgo some of these afternoon naps and start getting to work, you know? No more siestas, man. Start getting to work, put the player pool together, and let's make it happen, you know? Because there is a lot of exciting stuff going on.

Go ahead. Vince, you correctly pointed out, every weekend is a good weekend because we're just, seeing our guys out there applying. However, there was a stretch for time, I don't know, a year ago, where our version of a good weekend was Luca de la Torre, was completing some passes, and then eating octopus, and that was the big news of the weekend and we had to do an hour show about it. Yeah, I have to say that.

There's a lot of stuff to talk about. Right. You are correct. That post-World Cup stretch was, it was quite dire. It was quite dire. But yeah, we're back, baby. Mark McKenzie went 90 and a 3-0 win over Montpellier. I didn't watch it, but that's a good scoreline for a centerback.

Yeah. I checked it out. He was, Mark was 44 for 44. Oh, yeah. Some, like a few of, maybe like five, I want to say, like went into the amoeba. but they were good passes. He's showing off his two foot in this once again. Left foot, right foot, and he defended well.

He has a lot of responsibility as far as playing left-center back. He has to come out wide a lot. Mostly handled his business. He did one Mark McKenzie's thing where he won the ball off of an attacker, and somehow while running through to kick it away, he just missed it. And so the ball sat there. and the attacker got it back but he was

he's still engaged in the duel like nothing came of that but I guess that was like the one slightly sloppy moment but yeah he's performing man and performing well and

that's a big deal I think yeah it is a big deal got the first start right for uh for Potch and

you know I think just as I continue to go to these games and talk to these players in the mix zone, you know, they get me. Every time I talk to somebody, like, you know, these people I've been on, I've been on Mark McKenzie's tail, right? But man, what a nice fella. Man came out with a Bible in hand and a, and a little toiletry bag. He had a Bible in his hand?

He did. You could see it in the video. Reverend Mark. So I'm rooting for you, Mark. I know it hasn't always seemed like I'm rooting for Mark, but I'm rooting for Mark. Well, how well he, you know, things change. Players develop. And him looking really good against Panama was a really good sign.

Him not being able to play against Mexico ended up hurting us a lot, I think, as we were trying to build out against them. So I'm excited to see how he does. I mean, Richards is still hurt. Also in Liga. Ligand. Caleb Wiley still hurt for Strasbourg. Let's move to, you know, I think there's plenty to talk about in this PSV game.

They beat Peck's wool, 6-0. Pepe scored three great goals, but one of them was unjustly ruled an own goal. I mean, it might have been just. I don't know. but the goals the goals he scored first it's a falling sideways scissor kick on a ball just kind of clipped laterally over to him in the box

just whips his boot through it flashes into the net past the helpless goalkeeper really nice technique that made it one zero I believe I don't know he's he was fine in the buildup nothing too wonderful but nothing really bad.

He had a nice chipped pass attempt over the back line for Parasich at one point. Scores another goal when Tillman wins in the counterpress over to Noah Long, who dribbles in an arc at the top of the box and then slips a little outside of the boot pass over to Pepe. He takes a touch with his right foot, feels with his left arm for the defender to hold him off, and then shoots perfect bending hit down in the far corner. That's the second goal. And the third goal was a header on a cross,

drew an excellent save from the keeper, bounced off the post, and then off the keeper's leg and spun into the goal. Eventually it was ruled an own goal. I don't think it was probably going to go in if it hadn't hit the boot and spun over the line. You would like to see that the scorekeeper looked the other way.

Yeah, that'd be nice. You would. It definitely would. It's one of those own goals where it was, it's only an own goal because it was such a good, attempt on goal by Pepey. Right. So it's very similar to the,

Tim Wayo on goal. What, Costa Rica in Columbus? Yeah. And only ricocheted off that man's buttocks because he smacked it off the post. But yeah, always, just whenever you see Rico scoring goals, you know, I've said it before, but it's like, man,

he was just born to score of goals. He does feel that way. For me, particularly, it's just the second goal. Like how smoothly he just set, gets a shot off, bang. Like, it's just, man. Let's get some PT for my man. Let's get some PT for my man. Apparently, Daniel Smith said that Netherlands, ESPN, ESPN.NL,

was campaigning for Pepe to be the starter from here on now. Come on, man. Let's see it. Please. My man has some PT It does feel like the sun is starting to set a little bit on DeYoung, maybe, you know? I mean, it's a little early to see that. They did a legend ceremony for him, or they did a, oh, man.

It's a wrap. It said Luke the legend on it. Give him a huge bouquet of flowers, far too big. Wait, again? Didn't they give him flowers a couple weeks ago? I think they just maybe every few weeks they've just been giving new gifts. I think they know it's up Okay

Yeah it sounds to me like it's up They're in the book Bucays of flowers Yeah It was like a funeral 400th game or something like that It was an unusual milestone But he's washed

That's the point Let's go I hope he is Look you've had a great career man You have yeah Kind of pass it over to somebody else Respectfully Respectfully

And that's one thing I was thinking about No shame You got a very talented young forward Behind you Which He realizes and he did everything To make sure he didn't get any Didn't get that much playing time last year

He missed a penalty by the way Luke did in this game Waste there we go Wait did he take a penalty when Pepe was on a hat trick Well they didn't know Well they had they still thought They thought he already had the hat trick Not that I think he would have given it

If he didn't. Because he had scored all three. And the players didn't know that wasn't a hand trick yet. Okay. So it was like right after his goal before the scorekeepers changed it up. I'm still a little upset about that. But yeah. Let's get my man some playing time, man.

I was talking about this little bit with Tanner yesterday. See how much better he got? Why was he able to do that? because he was able to put like two 2,500 minute seasons together. Yeah. You know, even though it was in Siri B, he was able to find herself through that. Rico. We need some PT, baby.

Ernie, I mean, come on. You know, we worry about, we ain't talked about Ernie a lot here lately. Ernie, come on, man. Maybe you're upset because Greg got let go or whatever. The Dutch influence is no longer a thing. And it's not soccer house no more, but it's soccer complex in Atlanta, Fayetteville. But come on, help us out, man. Help us out already.

Yeah. All right. Well, Tillman, I thought, was quite good, just doing his normal stuff, except he's adding this covering a lot of ground and winning the ball back in key moments, doing a lot of that. I would like to see him move. So my one critique of Pepe in this game in which he was excellent is

can you just be a little more of a protagonist when you get the ball with your back to goal? Be a little more inventive, a little bit more creative instead of just like taking it kind of a sort of a heavy touch and then passing it backwards. My thing with Malik is can you move with a little more alacrity

into those pockets of space in the buildup. He still looks a little bit like he doesn't quite know how important it is for him to move into those windows. And I mean, that was definitely a problem when we played Mexico and it didn't notice a huge leap forward from him even in this game, which they won six to zero.

But I'm intrigued by him at the six. He's a good enough athlete to do it Yeah, that's one thing I was thinking about listening to the Champions League show. When Salerno was talking about Malik and his ability to tackle. And, you know, we talked about it like offensively, his balance, right? The ability that, you know, he can be getting tugged on his. My old line coach always said the mark of a good athlete is how you can, how well you can stay on your feet. And so, like, the way like Malik, like when he's carrying a ball or something, you know, he'll get, like, fouled.

like somebody tried to charge into him, like tug him back or whatever. And he's always able to just find, refine the center of gravity and keep going forward. And I think that's the same thing with his defense as well and his ability to tackle is just the balance. Like the fact that somebody can be trying to like take him on and like cut inside. And while his like left foot is kind of opened up, he still can like redirect that right foot and get like a toe poke in a situation where

like you probably wouldn't expect. Like the dude, like the guy taking him on, carrying the ball or dribbling or whatever, probably thinks he got him at that point when you see like a leg open up, you see like, hey, his left legs open up. He's not going to be able to adjust back this way. But Belix's like, no, you don't understand my superpower, sir. A balance isn't impeccable. So yeah, I think that's helping him quite a bit.

It's his main athletic trait, right? other than being a very large person. And they can get around. But, like, yeah, the balance is just. I love that from your O-line coach. I need to tell that to my U-6 soccer team. Quit falling. These little kids fall down all the time.

They like falling. It's like fun to fall down, you know. But then somebody steps on, somebody steps on their hand with their cleats. And then they start crying. And I'm like, you know, I'm like, crew, this is the 30th time this has happened this season. Yeah. Can you just remember not to fall down? You got to stay on your feet, man.

Yeah, got to stay on your feet at all levels. Malik scored a goal. It was a header. Kind of alert to step to the near post ball from Parish. Brave to stick his head through it, even though that goalkeeper was trying to close on him with closed fists. So, yeah. Tillman continues to play well for his club.

Let's get him to play well for his club. the national team. Same goes for Josh Sargent, too, if we're honest. Should we talk about, so Cole Campbell made, Cole Campbell made a debut? Yep. Debuted at the end, he got the nerves out.

Get the nerves out came for him. He had a very nearly had a shot. He did with it a bit. But there were defenders right in front of them. Yeah. Unfortunately, this is his main moment. It's a youngster for Dortmund.

He's a dual nat, right? Yeah, what's it? Iceland and USA? Yeah. I mean, pretty big, pretty big deal. 18 years old? Icelandic man's word is good in my experience. Noted.

Noted. I don't know any Icelandic people. The one thing I noticed, because he was doing, I mean, he came in, what, 80th minute, came in 88th minute, Dortman's down, 2-1 to Augsburg, so they're chasing the goal. Um, he was doing a lot of corner flag, uh, hounding.

You know, Augsberg was getting the ball taken into the corner flag and, you know, Cole Campbell was in there trying to get a foot in or whatever. But the one thing I did see just from this brief, um, cameo is that he's fast. That's a, that's all I could take away. Yeah. He's fast and he does it with intensity. Yeah. I mean, those arms are moving.

He's got a full print action. Mm-hmm. That's something. So, Gio, like, we have no idea when he's coming back. Right? I kind of keep forgetting he exists. He just, I think he's kind of disappeared. I'm sure everything will be fine, but I don't know.

I haven't been checking his Instagram. Maybe he's... Yeah. It's almost too painful to think about. Norwich, Drew Middlesbrough, 3-3. So we got starts from Sergeant Ann Aiden Morris. I noticed, you know, Borja signs the number seven, the left winger for Norwich is just on an absolute tear.

He's got 10 goals, which makes him the runaway front runner for goal scores in the championship. It's a banger every 30 minutes or so. I mean, he had two unbelievable goals in this game. But one of the byproducts of this is he's just not really passing the ball to Josh Sargent anymore. It's just not happening. Sargent has one shot attempted in the last four games.

Jesus. He's running a lot and getting assists and doing a lot of good stuff. But even in this game, he barely touched the ball. I think he was five of five passing in 94 minutes. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't have a big takeaway from it, but that's true. What I just said is true.

Right. Where she said. Maybe, yeah. Signed. But this is actually a good player This is actually a good player doing it on this one I mean science is just like I don't know if you saw his two goals

But they were ridiculous both of them Yes I saw them both This was a great game This was a great game Aiden As Bells mentioned he started I think played Played pretty well

played pretty well, particularly on the ball. I thought he was good. Had a couple nice switches of play that was nice to see from him. At this point, with Aiden, I think I'm more or less sold on the ball-playing ability. Once again, he's touching the ball, like 80, 90 times a match. Pass completion up in the 90% range. I mean, he's a metronome out there for the most part, even if he is passing it sideways to a person two feet next to him.

But he's making a good deal for passes as well. But I think now I'm just more worried about the athletic ability and the ability to close down space and the short area quickness. It takes him a minute to get going when he's chugging those arms trying to get to get to a ball carrier. Like I said before, when he's there, he's definitely bringing something to the party. win the ball very cleanly, very smoothly. No problems with that is just a matter of getting there. Yeah, a matter of getting around the pitch at this point, which once again, with my boots on the ground,

Mick's own experience, I think he's serious about like bag of muscle milk, you know, bag of muscle milk in his hand like four of them after that Canada match. and I think it's something that he can improve, but I will say his brother plays for Louisville City, and I watch him quite often. He's kind of built like Jordan Morris, like a beefier Jordan Morris, but he's not like the greatest athlete either.

So I do wonder if maybe he's maxed out there. So that's my main concern. So like, because Middlesboro was up 3-1 in this match, right? And Norwich came roaring back. And when they were coming, and when they were roaring back, like, a lot of it was Aidan Morris getting taken advantage of in that midfield. Really? Yeah.

Norwich just kind of bumrushing him. Aidan was unable to grab hold of the game in that way. Like, you know, Norwich was just kind of running past them quite often. I don't know if he was tired or what, but, yeah. No, that's my concern with Ada right now. On the ball, I think he's got it, man. I think he's got it. Yeah.

I'm definitely not, you know, among those saying we should never call him up again after that Mexico game. But, yeah, just got to keep watching, keep hoping. But if you can't get around the pitch fast enough, that is going to put a limit on my enthusiasm for him, I guess. We've got three more players to cover. here Paxton Vince Yeah

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Right. So in this instance, Utrecht calls us, hey, man, Vince, bells, Chris. We don't know what to do with Paxson, man. I mean, we don't got them on loan. We haven't paid a, decent loan fee.

But, you know, he's not looking too good. We even had to bench him a little bit. And we're like, oh, well, what position is he playing? Oh, you know, we're playing him on the left wing. And then that's, and then that's, and then that's, and then that's where we're like, okay, okay, we'll get back to you, Eutrik. We come up with a, you know, PowerPoint, 20 slides, a lot of fluff, but really somewhere in the middle there is just like, hey, have you thought about playing him in the midfield? Oh, okay. didn't think about that.

They start riding down on no pads, boom. $40,000 right there. $40,000, man. Because I imagine a lot of teams had to lean out after COVID. So maybe that person that would have just dropped that gem of knowledge is unemployed now or whatever. But ever since they moved Paxson to the midfield, ever since they move Paxon to the midfield, he's looking like Paxon-Arenson again. It's crazy.

It's like Utre, didn't even watch him play in this exact same league last year. But Pax is back. He's back, baby. And he's looking good. They played, Utrecht played Fire Nord this weekend. Taylor Booth started also. Lost two zero.

Taylor Booth did not impact the game at all, really. But Paxton, Paxon's looking good, man. He covers the same ground as his brother. not as frenetically. And with that non-phrenetic energy, he also, he wins the ball, unlike his brother.

You know? So he broke up a ton of fire, nor attacks in this match. Also, intercepted a couple balls. There was also some fouling going on. There was also some phalan going on in this match, but it wasn't any,

like, He was getting invested and, like, filed because of that or anything like that. He was just trying to get around the pitch and let his presence be known, type of thing. So I'm pretty encouraged by him. And also probably should have had maybe one assist at least. One assist in this match played two very nice through balls. And this match, one that was through, like, a huge window. But the weight was good.

Weight is important. Yes. And then another perfectly weighted one that he just poked through the two Fire North centerbacks as he was falling down to the ground just with the instep of his right foot poked it through. The Utrecht attacker tried to, he pulled a, what's a bro's name from PSV? Till. He pulled a goose till. Remember what he did. Oh, trying to be unselfish. Yep. He did that one. He probably just should have either try to chip the keeper or something. would have been a very nice assist for Pax but he's he's bawling I checked out his Gronigan game too

because the clips for that weren't up before we recorded last last week and yeah this basically just looks like the Pax we got in Vitesse but he's playing for Utrecht now and I think I think Frankfurt's going to be pretty pleased

if he get a full season of this you know the what Frankford Sporting Director came out and said we expect him to be in the squad next year for us. And I think he's, I think he's tracking towards it, man. I really do. Okay. Okay. Playing for a winning Utrecht team, by the way.

They're second in the league. Although I was looking at this role differential. They've scored 15 and allowed 10. They might be running a little bit good right now. Yeah. So they could come back down to Earth. As opposed to PSV's gold differential of plus 29. 29.

35 to 6. Yeah, that's good. That's good to hear because I was ready to just sort of not think about Pax that much after watching a few of those games on the wing. Because he's not a 1V1 merchant, but... He's not at all. But he does stay on his feet. To bring it back to an earlier point.

he's good man he's good he gives you some some creation from midfield like i said dual winning i think he's he's on his way he's on his way we got a good update uh got a good update on balligan okay by the way uh monaco coach addie hooter said he did the warm up today he needs time he needs time, but he's on the right track. It looks good so far, but we have to be careful. It looks like he might come back earlier than expected. That's great. And now we need an obligatory Joe Scali update, I think.

Or maybe not obligatory. Maybe there's nothing obligatory about it. This was kind of obligatory. I just watched the game because I was like, well, he played, you know. But he played left back. play a little I've been playing a little left back he looked like Joe Scully

playing left back but he played he played left back and that's really I really just put him in here and watch the game just to talk about the fact that

you know we've been talking about how we miss Serginio des right how the team misses Serginio does but I just want to remind that like we

we do miss Sergenio desk, don't get me wrong. But we didn't do any of the things that we thought would be the solutions to replace Sergenio Dest. You know? Like, I feel like, like Joe played well that Brazil game. And then everybody's like, oh, you know, this is just the Joe Scali we're going to get. Newsflash that that's not the Joe Scali you're going to get. He's more or less returned to being Joe Scali for the national team, like, you know,

the Copa America. and then all the game since where he's just been Joe Scally and it's like, man, like, go ahead. I was just going to say that Joey Clamps nickname was premature. I mean, I don't.

Not that he's not still, you know, that's not the issue. Right. Yes. He's closer to Joey Clamps than he name. Yeah. So you need, you need good full,

you need good fullback progression in soccer. today. You know? Clubs need it. International teams need it. You got somebody who... Yeah, you just get stuck.

And you can be as clampy as you want. But if you can't move the ball forward, it doesn't matter. I was just thinking about the fact that like, you know, I guess like in the scuff discord we've been talking about this a little bit, just talking about how important Serge is. And don't get me wrong. He is important. did have the take that like if we if we did what I thought we were going to do we wouldn't we wouldn't necessarily miss them too too much and that was putting our good ballplayers back

at right back whether it be Timway or Weston and we didn't we didn't get any of that and you know we're getting predictable results from playing Joe Scali at right back once again not to say surge is not important but I think he would have been less important if we would have tried one of those two out back there. That's all. Of course, that wouldn't have affected this last window. Serginio opened up a soccer court in his hometown, by the way. I don't think we mentioned.

She just mentioned that. It's called Sir Gio Descourt. Does it have the SGD logo? It does. Well, it's the main court is red, white, and blue, solid colors all the way through. Flag star thing. And then in the middle of that is a huge S-G-D logo. It takes almost a third of the court up.

It's beautiful. I love it. I want to go play on that court someday. You can never get the look. Almere, yeah. Amrida. That's an Amsterdam suburb rate? Yep.

It's like, I think, 15 minutes from city center. It's a really weird suburb they built in the 70s, which seems exactly right. It does. It definitely does. It's across some water, I think, from Amsterdam. I was just going to say, yeah, I think maybe when we look back on this whole era, the Copa America disaster, Burrhalter getting fired,

just the dreariness of the pre-potch friendlies, and then, you know, us losing to Mexico. It can all be viewed from a, from a Serginio's absence lens, you know? It all happened without Sergenio there. And I do think, I agree with you, Vince, to an extent that if we put Vince, I mean, if we put, not Vince, if we put Wes back there at right back, it probably is, we do get some ball progression there. But I just don't know. I just feel like Serginio is irreplaceable. And then not to mention the knock-on effects you have of not having West in the midfield,

if you play in my right back. Although when it really started, it again comes back to desk, is when he punted that ball into the stands for no reason. That's true. But then we went in one, like, we won Nations League in some style, you know? That's right. I mean, correct. You know, we beat New Mexico 2-0 with DeAndre yelling at right back at me.

I don't know. It was like the one thing I hold in my head. I'm like, eh, but yeah, I don't know. I think just getting somebody that can like really play soccer back there just would have helped tremendously. But my vote would have been similar. But, yeah. How's your right score to goal game winner? Oh, yeah. He's got five on the season.

It was a bundler. Yeah. Like he just, it was a scramble in the gold mouth. I think that's it. Hope everybody has a great week. We'll see you.