Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America - #729: USA v Peru recap

Episode Date: September 27, 2026

Vince and Belz talk through the 4-1 win, the 11 debuts, the young goal-scorers and Sebastian Berhalter's decisive cameo. Three more matches to go in this window, lots to think about. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episodes ad-free, plus 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: https://www.patreon.com/scuffedCheck out our store, where you can get Scuffed hats and sweatshirts and other stuff: scuffedpodcast.com/storeAlso, 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.scuffedpodcast.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 when we talk about U.S. soccer. Hey, everybody. It's Sunday. The Day of Rest, Rise and Shine. It's time for a USA versus Peru recap. Eleven players got their USMNT debut. Eight of them were teenagers. Cabin Sullivan, Justin Ellis, and Peyton Miller got the start. Eunice Musa has returned from his pilgrimage. The U.S. won four to one against a scrappy Peru team. Vince is here to walk.

us through it. Vince, how you doing? I'm doing good, Adam Bells. I mean, this was a great start to the window, I would say. A lot of debuts, a lot of new faces, faces I wanted to see out there on that pitch. And I think, I mean, the team itself mostly acquitted itself well, I would say. Yeah, it was not spectacular. No. But it was, well, I mean, 4-1.

who can complain about that. Exactly. And I thought the performance was mostly good throughout the entire match for the most part. I mean, like, yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't think that's evatable. I saw some people being like, I'm not impressed by what we're doing right now,

but it's like, you see the amount of kids we're playing right now. All these dudes getting their first caps, I mean, the amount of fellow getting their first caps that were in the starting lineup, and we went out there, We looked like a team capable of hurting Peru. Basically throughout the match.

I mean, what more could you really ask for with this group of fellas? I feel like you should, I was thinking about you as I was watching it, how vindicated you might feel about Justin Ellis' performance, because you've been talking about him for weeks. I mean. And I don't mean the goal, really. I mean, the goal is nice, but... I mean,

I don't know, in my old age, I become less and less self-aggrandizing. I'm just grateful for the wisdom that, you know, this is Sunday that the Lord above has bestowed upon me. So it's just like, I mean, I was pretty darn sure that the stuff I was seeing in MLS

from all of these kids would translate over to the national team and over to just bigger and greater opportunities when that time comes. Like it's just the things that these dudes are doing, especially Justin Ellis. I was talking about this actually on Boots on the Ground with regards to Kat Macario.

When it's like, when you have the class and the ability to kind of just slow the game down, like bend the game to your will, through your skill or yeah your technical ability the ability to hold the ball to create that extra half beat full beat for yourself

you're going to have an easier time fitting in when the level goes up any level you know I mean like to like any adjustment whether you're coming back from injury that's why I was talking about it with Kat it's like as soon as she comes back she's going to be fine

because she can just hold the ball until she doesn't want the ball anymore, you know, kind of thing. And Justin Ellis, with his ability to get his head up and find, you know, first-time ideas, his ability to hold the ball up, which his holdup play led to one of our pretty good chances or pretty good attacking sequences in the match, et cetera, is just like, you know, you could find that. And you can find that beat, half beat reliably. the game suddenly becomes a lot easier. It's very true.

And Justin Ellis is just one of those guys, man, they can do it. I think we saw that the young players have varying amounts of this, you know, like as it stands right now, their ability to slow the game down and find those beats and apply those talents. You know, you saw, I mean, and that's the thing. The performances across the board varied, but you saw flashes from, you saw the flashes from each one of these dudes.

Yeah, I mean, go ahead. Once again, like for me, that's just all you can ask for for me. And then we went on top of it. Yeah, I feel like I bring up Ellis because I see the starting lineup and I'm like, all right, we're going to see Kevin Sullivan and Gio Raina working together. And, yeah, I guess a little bit.

But that wasn't really the story, you know. I mean, the chances were coming largely through the work of Ellis, I would say, in the first half. Or at least through his feet. And so I think that's kind of interesting. And it's good for Kavana to not have too much success on the first, you know, on his debut. Yeah, and, you know, I was kind of thinking while watching the match, it's like, Kevin, I don't know, I don't know if he has that ability to get that half beat, full beat right now. Not that there's anything wrong with that necessarily, but it's like, yeah,

what we see from Kevin is a lot more frenetic, you know, he's getting on the ball, he's going crazy, like off ball runs, things like that. When he got on the ball, you kind of saw him getting crowded out a little bit, just because maybe he doesn't have that strength. And the referee was letting Peru be very physical. They were letting him be very physical.

I mean, there was one, there was one moment in the first half where Kevin, his first opportunity to kind of get busy on the right wing, and get busy he does, I think. He gets a step, maybe like a full yard, and gets just an obvious shove in the back. And he loses the ball.

And Peru's going the other way. You know what I'm saying? So it's probably just a young man thing, a strength thing, possibly. But it is a step up in competition, even if most of these players are, you know, not at famous clubs. Most of the players from Peru.

I mean, it may or may not. but it's also, like I talk about this often, like the parameters of a soccer game, you know, it's just a ball, a lot, some lines, and your teammates, and then, um, the rules are up for interpretation.

And, you know, you get a cockat-calf ref. And regardless on whether this is actual step-up in competition or not, it is a different competition, you know, from what they're, from what they used to in MLS, which, uh,

you know, what wants to fashion itself in a European style, you know? Yeah, I guess I'm just trying to, I'm trying to argue that he looks, he looks like a boss man in MLS right now. And he, but he didn't in May. And he looks a little bit, I thought he looked a little bit last night like he did in MLS in May. True. There was some, there's some flashes, but he doesn't look like he's boss in the game.

Should we read the lineups? Let's do it, brother. Matt Freezing goal, Alex Freeman at right back. George Campbell and Austin Trusty, where the centerback pairing. Interested in your thoughts about them. Peyton Miller played left back and got posterized a couple times. Tyler Adams, but that's not the whole story on Peyton.

He did some good stuff in this game. Tyler Adams and Eunice Musa were the center mids, and then a band of three of Kevin Sullivan, Gio Raina, and Malik Tillman. I guess you could say Raina was on the left part of the time. And then Justin Ellis was the striker, as we discussed. For Peru, it was Pedro Galez and Goel, Oliver Son, Renzo Garses, Garces, Miguel Arajo, and Marcos Lopez across the back,

and then Wilder Cartagena, Yoshimar Yotun, in the two and then Piero Magallanes Hiro Velas and Johnny Vidales in the band of three

and then John Luca Labadula at Stryker I mean somebody's going to get me for some of those pronunciations no doubt about it but you did your best brother thank you

you got a quote from I think Pots here that you wanted to spotlight where we get to the time This is a potch quote. He gives some praise to MLS and the coaches in MLS. I just get to reading it. What we felt, and that is credit to all the coaches

and the coaching staff in MLS and the teams in MLS that these coaches deserve credit more than us because how the understanding of the game, the capacity to adapt so quickly to the tactical demand, that's because they have good coaches. It is important to praise all the coaches that are in MLS working with these guys. The way that the young players understood from day one, what we expected from them was amazing. We were talking after the first and second training session

at every single concept that we put out, players assimilated and applied at training. Huh. This is good stuff, man. I mean, like, how many times have we kind of sat here? And like with, I don't know, the Golden Generation guys, and been like, and just we're kind of hoping

or lamenting the fact that they're not able to make tactical decisions in game or take concepts and apply them on the field, et cetera, et cetera. It's good. I mean, I guess it speaks to

the furtherance of American development and to continue my, I don't know, comparison with the U.S. women's national team. Emma Hayes, when she first got the job, she had,

she publicly voiced that she had questions about the American player's ability to apply whatever she gives them tactically in-game or whatever. And then after she worked with them for like a couple camps or so, she came back and was like, basically what the hell

was I talking about? these players know what they're doing, you know what I'm saying, they were able to take what I was preaching to them, apply it, et cetera. And so, I mean, obviously this is a positive development for American soccer, the fact that, you know, we can have these players, you know, they don't have to be, because we were, we were limiting this over our European-based players, you know, not being able to solve, like, kind of basic problems in game tactically when it comes to build out and numerical advantages, et cetera.

And so the fact that these dudes have not even made the pilgrimage over yet, by and large, and are getting this type of praise, good news. Yeah. It's good news, man. Although I would say I would make a distinction between the ability to adapt, assimilate, and apply concepts. the coaching staff are giving you in practice or in training, make a distinction between that and, you know,

independent problem solving on the field, which is what I, I feel like what I've lamented is like, you know, we get a red card or we give up a goal in a way at Concaf, and it's like we're completely helpless, you know, the golden generation that is. Like it's just inevitable.

We're going to not get, a win in this game because like they can't they're not going to figure it out yeah yeah and maybe maybe some of that some of that maybe is more mentality uh related yeah it's extremely mentality related brother yeah so that remains to be seen obviously and and you know we got some well i you know i was gonna say we got some tougher games coming up but like all of these games are tough in their own ways just through, you know, physically, Peru being very tough. You know, Chile is going to be very tough and try to impose themselves upon these youngsters.

And then we get the actual good at soccer teams at the end of the window. So, you know, we'll have a view of how, yeah, of what the level is, what the mentality level is at least. Yeah. I mean, I will say even this last, thing I want to say before we get to the time, even though Kavin didn't have a great game,

you can feel his presence out there, you know? I mean, there's a, there's a sort of, there's an insistence to the way he brings himself to the field that I think is palpable. And, uh, I like it. And I think when it comes to solving problems as a team in, uh, difficult moments,

that attitude is going to help. Hopefully. All right. To the timeline? Let's do it. First thing is the guy Vince has been talking about for at least a month and a half on the Monday review, Justin Ellis creates a little something with Malik Tillman a little, like a clever little pass from the outside to the inside. So he's drifting around a lot.

This is at the 245 mark. and he finds himself on the ball, a quick little pass into Tillman. Tillman lets it run, and as he's, like, running right at the goal from maybe 30 yards away, tries to slide it back over to Ellis, the pass a little behind him,

and Ellis wins a foul. Yep. Easy. I mean, you know, it's the first view of the things Justin can provide, you know, it's nothing too crazy, but once again, you know, if you can distill the game down and make it look simple,

that's probably the best way to play, and that's just in here. Receives the ball first time to Malik in the space that allows him to receive without touching it. And then the return passed back, like you said, is behind him, but Justin's able to corral it and just keep it under his control to where, you know, the referee has no choice but to call a foul on this blatant. pushing the back. And goal USA right away. Giorana stands over the free kick, curls it in,

and Ellis gets in front of the, it's not really at the front post because he's about 10 yards out, but gets in front of the first defender and then just kind of pops it off the top of his head, skips, arcs over to the back post. And in, as Antonio Freeman arrives, in all his glory to watch it at the last moment. 1-0 USA.

Well, that's Alex Freeman, brother. Did I say Antonio again? You did, you did, you did, you did say that, Antonio. But, because, yeah, at first I was wondering, because, I mean, Alex was crashing hard. If that thing goes wide, that's an Alex Freeman goal, probably. But I didn't know if he got a foot to it or not, but you see in the replay, no foot.

This is a Justin Ellis, cultured, cultured header. You know, I mean, yes, there's some luck involved here. But the flick, you know, and this is not somebody that I'm necessarily sold on as a striker, by the way, Justin Ellis. But this is just one of those things where it's like, you just see the class, even with the header. you know, not trying to do too much with it. I mean, you know, it's the classic Gio Dink that we know he just has on Smash. I'm assuming this whole thing came from the training ground. Maybe Justin wasn't even supposed to score this.

It might have just been designed for Alex crashing, you know, G.O. dink and Justin Flick, Alex crash score. But yeah, good stuff. Goal. Justin Ellis gets a goal in his home stadium. I think the commentator said, Potch called it Potsch

Justin Ellis I told Potch he's only scored one goal in I don't know the name of that stadium Yeah I've forgotten it It's the

stadium that we saw The World Cup qualifier in That's right That's right Orlando City Stadium I only scored one goal there Pott said you're going to get it You're going to get a second one brother

And lo and behold Here we are So shout out Justin Yeah I mean There's always Maybe a little bit of luck on a goal like that, but, you know, you put it, if you're being able to flick it to that place, you know, is the thing that is difficult.

And whether it's there for somebody to crash or whether it goes into goal, it doesn't really matter as long as it's in that general area. All right. He's also, I noticed Ellis was working really hard, especially early in the game against the ball. I like that. He looks like he's kind of interesting. He has an interesting face because he looks like he both looks very young and like you can totally see how he's going to look as an old man.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially as like an old man soccer player. Yeah.

Yeah. He just got that he got that kind of face. I mean, it's, you know, he's half Urteguyen. Right. As we mentioned before on the show, you know, he got that, he just got it kind of got that grizzled face of a A Uruguay man, you know. It's a dogged competitor. You saw him on the other side.

You wouldn't want to be involved. No. You'd cross the street to the other side of the street in Mono Video. You saw him. Monoideo. Okay. Nine minute marks some loose passing from Adams and then some pressing from him gets Malik on the ball and he glides between two defenders in our half.

and then sends Freeman down the line. Sullivan's kind of like darting in and out trying to figure out how to interplay with Freeman on this as he's going down the line and he ends up running inside of him. Freeman tries to fizz a ball across and I think it accidentally clips Sullivan on the leg. I don't think Freeman was going for cabin here.

And then it's sort of like ricochets over to maybe it's Ellis or I don't know. Maybe, yeah, I think it was Ellis. and then it falls back to Sullivan. He takes it off his chest, tries to volley it's blocked, and then Tillman has a bite of the apple, as they say, when it falls to him, and his shot is blocked. But, yeah, like this.

Good stuff from Malik, obviously. I'm going to give a slight shout out to Peyton Miller here, whose strength coming back to the ball when Tyler was kind of fumbling with it. He hits a pass up to Peyton Miller. Who's able to kind of hold the man marking him off a little bit, enough to where Peyton is able to kind of play a return pass that Tyler Adams then wins. Then we get it to Malik. Then we're all from running.

And I don't think that was Ellis that the ball hits there because on this play, he kind of like tries that. I noticed this because I'm always looking for, I'm trying to understand if Justin Ellis is a strike or not. And like I said before, I'm kind of leaning on no. And on this play, I'm noticing kind of a lack of a striker run here. You know, he has a lot of space to work in, like sell backpost, go front post kind of thing. He just kind of stays back post and doesn't really move. And that creates, like, the big space for Malik. Matter of fact, yeah, for Malik and I guess Kavana to kind of dart into.

So what's wrong with that? Why not? Why shouldn't a striker ever do that? He could. But I mean, look, the striker arriving on the backpost or being on the backpost in that situation isn't out of the ordinary. But there's just no moves. You know, like, and this is a consistent kind of thing I've seen.

Okay. Throughout MLS. This is why it's, don't know how goal hungry he is. You know, where SEC, Julian Hall later in this match and just the absolute dogged run that he makes to score his goal while holding off a defender on his backside,

etc. You know, kind of just the power and the willingness showed in that run to get that goal. I have not, I still have not seen that from Justin Ellis yet and I don't necessarily see it here.

And to be clear, I think if he does end up as like a, as an attacking midfielder, he's going to be a great one. Like, I just don't, he has all the skills I'm necessary to do so. So this is not me coming down with Justin Ellis at all. If you listen to pockets, often, you know, I love Justin Ellis. But I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to figure it out.

I'm just trying to figure it out. We get that we get that Calvin moment that I talked about earlier in the opening to the show. I'm streaking down the wing, gets pushed in the back. Also, 12 minute, we get our first vintage Eunice Musso. everybody welcome Eunice Musa back man Nice little turn on the receipt I think the pass comes from George Campbell I want to say

It just absolutely dust a Peruvian defender He turns Does a little few unishimi's Finds Kavana with a pass Gets taken out as he releases the pass And Kavin doesn't find anything to do with the ball So the referee calls it Calls it back and gives the foul on Eunice here

But it's just nice to see I see Eunice doing the Eunice thing. He also on the restart, Eunice loses it after a pass from George Campbell that was, I mean,

95% at the time a foul, but, but you know, we move. You mean a foul on Eunice when he loses it? Yeah. The pass from George put him into

two Peruvians, essentially, and Eunice does well. I mean, he receives the ball, he controls it. He has to, has his back basically till the two peruv and once again just some pretty strong shoves in the back and they're going the other way um i would have definitely called a foul because i mean eunice did everything necessary i would say he got the ball received it had it under his control

shielded it you know what i'm saying it wasn't a loose touch type situation that they pounced on nothing like that i could see being lenient there um the ball was fully under eunice's control but Anyway, 13th minute, we get a clock this. This is George Campbell, winning a foot race to a Peru long ball. I think it was a Lappadula. The striker running in behind. George Campbell runs, meets him to it, even made up a little bit of ground, I would say. So that's a little something from George.

Certified business handler or no? Let me tell you something. More of a business handler than Austin Trustee. I thought trustee was... kind of terrible in this game. I think I left him out of the notes, but there are multiple times where there was like,

I guess I would say like a speculative long ball or like a ball up to an attacker where Austin Trustee is on the back of the attacker. And one of these was in the first half. I want to say he conceded a free kick. He fouled the man. Like the attacker got in front of Austin Trustee, he boxed him out and won the ball.

And then I think another one was in the second half where the same thing happens, he didn't concede the free kick. But it's like these are 50-50 balls. And, you know, I mean, even in the interview with Ryan Richter, when he was talking about Neil Pierre, it's like, it's those plays that Neil makes like all the time. You see Neil in those 50-50 moments, like step in front of the dude that's trying to box him out or like physically dominate them, get the ball, hey, we're going another way,

type of thing. And Austin Trussie just unable to do that. then also we'll talk about the we're getting to the goal very soon awesome trust he has some capability there too as well so out of the two um i think george campbell slightly acquitted itself better but i will say that i mean as you know that full beard of his does signal uh to me integrity authority seriousness of character. Makes sense.

Early in the 14th minute, I think we get Peru's first shot of the game. Peyton Miller loses it in our attacking half, trying to go around his man. He played the ball to one side, tried to run around the other side. Loses it. Not a big thing. but our counterpress is broken by Peru as they kind of streak down our left side

as they bypass Malik and Tyler, each one just a little bit of a beat late. They streak down the wing and they end up finding Vidalas at the top of the box who takes a shot with his right foot, I want to say, that goes wide left. We had it marked up pretty well

other than Gio being a beat or two late to the top of the box, I would say, for the shot. Tyler was helping out on the left side and gets back into the play after he gets back past. And Eunice was following a runner into the box, which, which, yeah, left that opportunity for Gio. We know what Gio is, man. I'm not, I mean. Yeah, well, we got to clock these.

We got to clock these because, you know, this guy was not dynamic with the ball. at his feet. It wasn't. If you, you know, then the question is, what is his role? I saw some talk about tempo setting in soccer America's player ratings. They gave him a pretty good rating. It wasn't Mike Waitala, so there's an asterisk on the ratings. I am.

I don't know, man. I mean, speaking of tempo setting, I mean, how did you think of our, like, through the first 15 minutes, our general play, how the team looked. Because I would say we were a little constipated. Yeah, that's what it looked like to me. I would have liked to see us push more, be more demanding. All right, 15th minute, goal Peru. Tell us what happened, Vince.

Yeah, it's a ball from our right side from Yotun to Lappadula, who heads at home authoritatively. first of all, this whole sequence starts off, George Campbell, with a little bit of a Cardoso. Peru is in a, they're in a 4-42, in a 4-42, but at this moment, George Campbell finds a little bit of space to carry the ball into,

to try to get somebody to commit to him so he can find a pass so that we can get started in our build-up process here. And he has the space. And he starts, to take it and there's somebody to his inside shoulder to his left shoulder and for some for some reason he takes a touch that way and then and then loses the ball that way which is

I mean just a totally unforced error but it's not like they're they're in you know it's not a true card though he didn't make this mistake in our 18 yard box or six yard box anything like that um it we find ourselves in a pretty controllable situation um and we just don't handle it. I mean, we have them controlled, but too much standing from, I'm going to get Eunice in here, Gio, Tyler, and the defense, as they kind of pass the ball a little bit around their left side, and then they found Yotune basically right at the corner of the box,

right outside the corner of the box, to serve that cross-up for Lapidula. Lapidula is between Peyton Miller and Austin Trustee for, for me, that's trustee's man. You know, I mean, the, the idea that Peyton Miller is supposed to get inside a Lappadoola and make the play on the ball here doesn't seem right.

And also it's the striker, you know, the centerback should take charge of this. And while this entire play is going on, you can kind of see that the camera angle isn't great. But you can kind of see that Tyler is just like, Tyler and the defense are kind of just looking at the ball.

I keep saying this, but I just want one person. person because there is a lot going on in the situation. They're like kind of runners coming into the box, creating confusion. Somebody has to take responsibility and be like, hey, you got him. Like, it's time to mark people, you know, at this point in time. There are people flooding to the box. We have numbers to mark these people.

And we just end up staring around marking space. And then when the ball comes in, trustee's a little bit, a little bit too far from Lappadoola, I guess, to make a play on this ball, and then goal it is. Yeah, heads it back across to the back post. Yeah. And, I mean, I'm going to come down on Tyler. For me, just when I was watching this, I'm like, Tyler, I mean, if you go, you're the captain, man, you're the defensive midfielder. Your value is predicated on defense.

I'm tired of saying this stuff. But just like, you take charge of the situation, man. You take charge of the situation. You delegate responsibilities to your centerback. Because let me tell you something. We're not going to have a shot in hell. Like, because our centerbacks already mid as it is, right? And mid is probably being generous.

Like, we have to help them out in any way possible. Like, let's direct this traffic. Let's have some intelligence. design here. Let's get, let's get this thing marked up so we can mitigate the situation. And we did. Yeah.

Well, the Tyler experience will continue to be interesting. Promising sequence right after this, up the right side, up the right side through Sullivan, who kind of leaves it out for Freeman, and then Freeman gets

kind of stuffed at the end line. But it was a nice building. up to it. Yeah, this whole started with, first of all, in Build Out, Peyton Miller plays a bad pass back to Austin Trustee, which kind of puts them in, he collects it like by the

end line, basically. And it's kind of trapped there. He ends up basically just hitting a surrender left footed pass up the touchline. Justin Ellis gets there, and it's just, he has his defender in hell

basically. Very nice job to hold up the ball. And he finds a little dink to Malik. Malik skips by a couple people again, gets it out to Cav, and then we're off to the races. So nice from those two, specifically.

You know, like by the time we get out to Cav, all Cav has to do a streak down, play Alex. That's it. Yeah, Malik was, I thought, in this whole game,

good at skipping by, the first or second defender and then kind of things would peter out. Not always. Not in this case. Yeah. It's like, what do you do that? What now?

What do you do now? Because he's so elegant the way he gets past those first two defenders. And then it's like, where's the, where's the edge we get from that? Yeah. I mean, but, you know, I mean, the edge is all the space we get off the back of it.

I mean, in these situations, I mean, there's more where it's like we're really in the attack and third and the space is a little bit more compressed where, you know, he does that. And then it's like you need to really find a, find the decisive action after that or the internal clock needs to be going off to where. But because that's the thing about Malik, it's like obviously we talk about the languidity with. him. But it's like you kind of have to know where you are on the scale of like how nice you are. Like how nice you are will tell you how much time you have. Like yeah, Malik, you're nice enough to skip past the first and second dude. But at that point in time, that's where like the fight of flight needs to kick in.

The fight of flight got kick in at some point, you know? And at some points it never does. You wonder if Malik would just rather. Skip past. Defenders. Just keep skipping past that. Yeah, yeah. All right.

Freeze claims it. I just, I don't even put a timestamp on this, but there was a cross from our left side, so Peyton Miller's side, that Freeze claims, but he, like, claims it with, like, a basket catch at stomach level as it, like, as the ball flies through past a couple of heads.

And I do think his box command, And the box command questions continue to be asked or should be asked, I think. And this is one where, like, Peyton got beat a little bit, right? To get the cross off? Yeah. If I remember correctly. Yeah. He had a pretty rough start to this game.

You know, he showed, like, like I said, everybody showed some flashes. He showed some very clear flashes. But, like, the backpast and trustee that kind of got him in trouble, got beat. on defense a little bit, I guess, holds a little bit of blame for the Lappadoola goal as well. But I'm still, I'm a believer. I mean, you can see very clearly he has juice. He has almost unlimited physical, athletic ability, extremely, extremely fast. Very.

Extremely quick as well, you know, has both of those things. he also hasn't played left back in a very long time you know I mean he's playing purely winger for the New York Revolution and you and you see him come to life when he has those opportunities to do winger things so it was a rough rough 20 first 20 minutes and and maybe even it went even a little bit past that

but, you know, he started to come into the game a little bit soon after. Yeah. Why don't we take a break here and then come back and do the rest of the timeline. If you'd like to skip the ads, I'm sure you would. Wouldn't you like to skip the ads? Join the Patreon. Links in the show notes. You also get the clip notes videos, which are Vince's product of Vince.

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Speaking of Peyton Miller, 20-minute mark, he cooks his guy on the left, fizzes it across for Tillman, who fires it right at the keeper. Solvin then clatters into the keeper, and there's some low-level drama about that. But this is actually a really, really, really, really good chance created by Peyton. Just pushing the ball past his guy, roasting him, and then playing the perfect pass

to a guy to a teammate who is inside the penalty marker right in front of the goal and puts his head in his hands after he, you know, doesn't shoot it to either side of the guy, you know, of the goalkeeper. Yep. And this is like a real roasting. You know what I'm saying?

Like Peyton turned this 1 v1. This is a, like theoretically, each person has a chance to win this. And Peyton turns into a non-competitive thing. Like, I mean, he absolutely roast this dude just, I mean, BBQ, rotisserie. When I watch this, a football term, another football term comes to mind. You're talking about receivers this time.

A receiver, you're running around against a DB. You want to step on his toes. You want to step on his toes. You've probably heard it from the other side, from the DB point of view. If he's even, he's leaving. Peyton Miller faces up his man. He gets even, and you could kind of tell, he takes like a little small touch to kind of set up his body to burst. Then once he takes that small touch, he takes that small touch,

and he's even with his defender, you knew that second touch was coming towards the end line, and boom. He was shot out of the cannon. He was gone. He created space, like, vertically and horizontally, like, depth and width as well. And to get this cross-off, just unabated, put it right where he wanted to put it right to Malik. So. It's a tool.

It's definitely a tool. He got some juice, man, for sure. just kind of go through some stuff pretty fast here. I mean, Ellis gets a chance on the half volley through Miller's side and kind of is off balance and kind of shanks it. 28th minute, good chance fashioned up the right side through Raina to Sullivan, who lifts it over to Ellis. He can't get good contact.

Another headed chance for Peru where Miller gets dunked on. Again, I mean, like you said, maybe not. his fault, maybe more of a trusty thing. But Peru realizes they can just they can walk the ball in Miller's direction. This one I'm giving to Miller. I mean, on this one, Peyton is between the man and the goal.

You know, this is his responsibility to try to head this out. He gets thoroughly dunked on. I can't put that on Austin. Okay. There's also like in the 39th minute, there's an open net situation where the Proving goalkeeper comes way out and I think he's up against Ellis right? Yes, I'm sorry.

He's up against it, yes, yes. And he ends up losing possession and Sullivan gets on it and has an open goal to shoot in from a very, very tight angle for like, I don't know, a second and a half. And then he takes it to the end line. You know, I guess he's just trying to be

a team player, not be a show off? I mean, I would have been a incredible shot if he got that on target. I mean, I guess he could have, but he's, I mean, he's on the left wing. He would have to put some in-out swerve on it a little bit, probably. Yeah, he would have really had to do something kind of spectacular to get that thing on target. from the angle that he was at, he's on his left foot. It would have been tough. But as it was, he took it to the end line and tried to sock or something out,

and it didn't, nothing really came of that. So I guess I'd like to see him try the, you know, the 5% shot. Yeah, fair. This whole situation, by the way, comes from Malik winning the ball for us. Getting it to Malik, and Malik is, Malik hits the switch. over to Justin Ellis that causes this whole mayhem. Nice ball from a nice ball from Malik. Also I want to shout out

a decent ball from Tyler too to get it to Peyton Miller on the play that we just talked about a few minutes ago. Okay. And then last thing before the half for me is the 41 minute mark, a nice sequence from Sullivan and Ellis to find Tillman in the box. And this is one of those moments where he gets crowded off the ball at the penalty marker.

he's just trying to keep gliding. He just wants to glide, glide, glide, glide. And, you know, until he can just kind of like dribble it into the goal. I mean, first of all, let me just say, let me just say out my boy one more time. Justin Ellis, nice, first of all, this is a nice little transition attacking moment from the U.S. in the first place. Kav kind of gets it to Justin Ellis. Justin, just as calm as you like, first of all, he wins the ball in the first place to start this whole. Actually, hold on, no, that's Giovanni Raina.

No, no, no, that's Justin. No, this is the one where Sullivan passes it, like he's coming up the right side line. He cuts in and then he passes it to Ellis. Yes, yes. At the top of the box. But to start this whole transition moment, it is Justin Ellis winning this ball defensively in the press. And then the ball is passed a cab. Justin makes his run, gets the ball back from Cav,

and just to create the window to play this little reverse through ball to Malik, kind of stutters, takes a touch to his right to kind of eliminate a Peruvian defender. And then just a little reverse ball with his right foot into Malik, which, yeah, you do want to see a little bit more rooflessness from Malik. Because, like, he's big as hell, right? So when Malik gets his ball on the box, you kind of just want him to like, shield off the Peruvian defender, hold him with his frame and kind of just right foot it

and just get it on target, whether or not it be Sekeep or whatever. Yeah, a quick touch and a shot wouldn't be unwelcome here. It occurs to me that he kind of, the Ellis Passed two, Tillman is kind of the pass that Tillman likes to make, you know? Yeah. That quick little one-touch pass from just outside the box into the box. All right, so halftime comes. We get our first of many, many subs.

Diego Coaching comes on for freeze at the half. So he makes his debut. And, yeah, I don't know. Did you have any strong feelings about him in this game? It wasn't tested a bunch. about coaching He made some nice passes Made some nice passes

Other than that I mean No No There were a couple Like he didn't get tested He almost got tested a few times You know

It's just the shots Ended up not on target But he kind of When you see him jump and dive Like to his left or his right or something You can see the You can exceed the explosiveness from them.

I'll say that. Okay. So that's something I've noticed over the Lingby time so far. And I saw it here as well. It just shots weren't on target. Right. Okay, so Kavana and Gio have 12 minutes left on the field at the 50 minute mark. And we get a nice ball from Kavan, curled in from the left at the back.

post and geo this is kind of funny geo briefly contemplates laying out for it like just making the hard run at the back post and trying to dive I mean you know you see him think about it kind of like take a step in that direction he's like nah no no no

no and um me baby so he opts instead to just give Sullivan like the longest thumbs up in the history of the USMAD it just went on and on and on like a big thumbs up that

I mean the camera paned back to Kavan, he was like trying to ignore it. And finally he was like, yeah, he gave him a thumbs up back. Yeah. But yeah, I know some fans' patience with Gio is running thin. And I have empathy for that, you know? Yeah. I mean, we don't have to talk about that for a long time.

Look, I think there's a lot of stuff going on in this game. Like, the geo thing is one thing. I do, just in general, like this is too much, for this type of game, we don't need Tyler Adams and Eunice Mousson on the pitch. I would say that first of all. So. You mean that you're getting not enough forward thrust and too much? I mean, it's just, you know, like this is not against teams you're better than,

or should be better than midfield, you know, I would like to see. So I guess I say that to say, Gio maybe could have stepped back a line. We could have got somebody else in there. And I think what Gio brings works better that way, but also you're depending on them defensively. I don't know if you can do that.

But once again, this is why this is a thing you do against the team. You are supposedly better than. to kind of just have that extra attacking attack quality on the field. I think that's part of why we looked constipated early in this match. I mean, because I tweeted about it, but it's like, and once again,

I don't know how many times I can keep saying this, but it's just like Tyler Adams, absolutely unwillingness to turn on the ball. And it seems to be rubbing off on Geo a little bit too. It's like, Yeah It was a lot of A lot of

Just not a lot of Questions asked of the defense by Gio I mean we got to We gotta go forward man We gotta go forward So Yeah I mean I guess just Going forward

That's what I would like to see Is Just get back to what we're doing the World Cup Right We're doing the World Cup Like yeah Eunice Musa is not of the profile of a Malik Tillman,

Weston McKinney, Seth Burrhalter, etc. Boy, said Burrhalter looked like a world-class player when he came on. Hey, hey, man, we'll get to Seb. We'll get to Seth, brother. But I think

Eunice should probably be more in the running with Tyler Adams for Tyler Adams spot. You know what I'm saying? Like whether or not Tyler, I mean, whether or not Eunice starts over Tyler, I'm not ready to say that. I'm not ready to say that.

I mean, I'm going to put some respect on Tyler out of name. And in this match, you know, you saw a little bit of, you know, need a little bit more activity from Eunice. I would say he did some pretty damn good things on the ball. Probably like four or five, six little moments. I mean, even in the first half, we didn't cover him. But, like, we had spells of possession. I want to say got a mark, like, the 26 minute to like the 30th minute,

where Eunice is kind of involved. He was finding a lot of attackers through the lines, making a passes there. But it's just, you know, I mean, we all know this. Decisive Final Third Quality, not there, not there. So, yeah, with the way the BBQ King, I was about to call him Seb, I don't know, the way Potts sets his team up.

Yeah, I think Eunice is more in contention. It should be more. in contention for that six spot, or maybe the eight against elite teams. Yeah. Going forward. Okay. Well, 54th minute, Malik gets bumped off the ball in the box.

Again, this is another sort of patient attacking sequence that ends up with Malik in the box. It's just hard to weave your way through three or four more defenders there. 58th minute, Peru has a pretty good attack, where it starts with Eunice getting eliminated. on the turn at midfield and they get sprayed down to our right side where freeman and Campbell and adams ultimately do kind of deal with it um 50 9th minute unis gets almost gets caught draws two players in you clock this i mean this is just vintage unis musa like he's got a guy

on his back he's like he's asking he's like calling over other white shirts come on over here yeah yeah And then, yeah, go ahead. Well, he's just, he's just on it in such a way that, yeah, like, people, people get drawn to it, you know, like flies to, I don't know, some food that you left outside or something. People are just, it just, Peru, they smell blood in the water, whatever they get drawn to it. And then by the time Eunice finds a pass back to Austin Trustee, Austin Trustee is able to find just a nice ball between the lines to, I forgot who it was to. But it was a very good, it was like a two line breaker because the lines had been disrupted by the fact that everybody tried to gang up on Unis and get the ball. Like whether or not this is, this is like excellent play from Eunice.

I don't know. I could see people debating it probably. He's living on the edge a little bit. Yeah, he's living on the edge. But to go back to the main theme of the podcast, when you can buy yourself an extra beat, sure does help yourself. That's right. I mean, it is very right. Nice block by Tyler in the 60th minute.

He lays out to block a shot. I was watching some U8 boys soccer yesterday where they need to start doing that, you know? You cannot let the other team shoot from the edge of your box, man. You can't let that happen. Come on, little bro. 61st minute. Tyler helps, you know, tracks a runner, helps,

Peyton Miller out in the corner. It comes off the same sequence where Tyler Adam locks the shot, basically, the ball stays within Peruvian control. They work it over to their right side. Peyton Miller 1V1. Also, they try to make a run through the gap between Peyton Miller and Austin Trustee. Tyler Adams is there, alert, follows the runner. They try to make the pass to him. Tyler Adams is on them, dogging him.

ends up basically forcing them back to the touchline, essentially. The ball goes out off of us, but it's just a good piece of defending, good piece of defending, business handling, you know, to just take the little situation that Peru had created a little bit and just sort of it completely. So good work, good work from Tyler here. I want to see what you're doing here. I want to make sure I appreciate Tyler.

Yeah. Look, I'm happy when he does what he's good at. So we make five subs at the 62 minute mark. Jedi comes on for Miller. Gozo. Xavier Gozo comes on for, well, does he come on for Raina, I think? No, he comes on for Sullivan.

And then Matisse Albert comes on on the left, on the left wing for Raina. And then Julianne Hall comes on for Ellis, Julianne Hall, Krusheski. And then Sebastian Burhalter comes on for Eunice Musa. And these players made an impact on the game. I think it's fair to say. That's good. Well, real quick, because you're about to say Matisse's name again. This is Matisse Albert, brother.

I did If you did If you did You know Bels is through it Look look we got to respect I'm going to say Albert Every time

Okay All right I think I can do it This is how he pronounces it Is how he pronounces it If you might have learned on the On the broadcast yesterday That

That's how The Booth was pronouncing it And yeah Yeah it's Métis Métis Albert The U.S. Men's National team released a video

all the newcomers pronouncing their names. Like a lot of them did not need to pronounce their names. You know, the Cole Campbell. Do you think in the telemundo booth, they're like, yo, we got to stop calling it Inglatera. They call it England. We got to call it Inglatera. We got to call it England.

You already called them Matisse? It ain't Mathis. That's true. Matisse Albert, brother. All right. Okay, all right. So I'll bear. I was about to say, go ahead and put the full bell's tongue on it, man.

Albert, Albert wins a penalty. I'm going to put my full tongue on it. Let's see. A 62 minute mark, Albert wins a penalty right on the edge of the box. I'm not even sure it was a pen. but it was a sort of a straight line run from the left diagonally at the front post

and he's fouled somewhere in there goes down might have been just outside of the box might have been just inside who really cares lots of debate about it particularly from the Peruvians around the refs the ref and Austin trustee runs in

and tries to rescue the ref from all the Peruvian players you know tries to handle some business in that way. And then, no, no, it doesn't. None of it works. It's still a penalty. And Tillman steps to the spot.

It's a good one, low and hard into the left corner, 2-1 USA. I don't know how much credit to give Matisse Albert for this, you know? It's like... I really don't either. You know, the Peruvian defenders kind of beat off alignment to bring up another football term. But he's beating as soon as his pass is played. You know, all Matisse has to do is continue to use the ball's momentum to run into the box. He takes one touch.

I'm not even sure he was fouled. I mean... Does he even get touched? He got a small, slight grab on the shirt compared to some of the other things that weren't called in this match. Yeah, look, more power to him. And he got some plotted from Maricio Pashtino on this. First action. Goes on the pitch and bang, receive and go.

Does he need to improve? Yes. Need experience? Yes. Need everything? Yes. But he goes, I want to go. I want to play.

I want to show. That's what we need. And that's why I'm happy. I love that. I can understand. Does he need everything? Yes. I mean, yeah, when you're 16 years old or whatever,

you do need everything. You do need everything. A lot of development. I mean, you need protein, carbohydrates, knowledge. It's a lot going on. Literacy. Yeah, yeah. So regardless, that's the thing.

If he was Mathis Albert, not sure he gets his penalty call. but it's Sal Bear, brother. Yeah, okay, I'll remember that. Sevent second minute, we get our third goal of the game, and this is a really bang, bang, sequence, big switch, big, pretty quick switch from Jedi over to Burhalter on the right side, just a laser beam. Berhalter takes it down quickly and then just whips one to the back post.

Hall, as you mentioned earlier, throws himself at this ball at the back post, full strength. And kind of, like, he's almost horizontal with the ground when he strikes it with the kind of outside of his right calf, I think is what hits it. Maybe a little bit close to the knee, but yeah. Okay.

Yeah. And just kind of thrashes it in with an unorthodox part of his body. as he goes to ground. Love the commitment here. Love to see a striker just going full out for a ball at the back post. Yeah. 3-1 USA. And that's the type of thing that's the type of thing Julian does, man.

It's like he started off this season, extremely hot. It has cooled off. I think he has one goal in like a long time now. He scored his goal off a giveaway for him. from James Sands and they played NYCFC. But, and you know, when he was in his ascendancy, I guess, at the beginning of the MLS season, it's like, it's a lot of these.

Yeah. It's a lot of these types of goals, things which you would consider tap-ins, etc. But he continues to find him. And, you know, you can kind of see why he continues to find him when you watch the sequence of this goal, him just running. Balls to the wall to the back post, man. I mean, in no regard for his jewels necessarily.

I mean, the post is right there, you know, could have easily ran into it, but he's committed to scoring goals. And he's a striker in the mold of kind of a flow. We're like, yeah, diminutive is commitment. It's the willingness and the ability to continue to make runs over and over and over again and over again in behind. like, like, you know, whether they're in behind, whether they're, you know, in the final third, as this was. And, you know, watching him has kind of reminded me of Flo in and of itself where if you watch Flo

in his early days, like the Lone and Middlesboro, different things like that, you know, flow was kind of unremarkable until he wasn't, you know, he was kind of figuring himself out. he's playing a little wing, playing a little striker. Similar to what Julian Hall is now. If you watch Julian, you might be unconvinced necessarily because it's like, you know, hold up play isn't sticking out to you. Really, most things on the ball other than like his ability to kind of go 1 v1 isn't sticking out to you necessarily.

But similar to flow, it's like if he's able to add that extra strength to kind of let everything else come into play, like he kind of already has the be a minute to center back thing down which as the more I watch soccer is the most important thing for strikers for me because you need to you need to compromise that backline you need to give that backline something to worry about if they have nothing to do but to basically look at you and be very aggressive coming out to your passes in the pockets and all those different types of things that is a pretty big hindrance to your attack So it's the Josh

Sergeant experience It's like oh gee Yeah with the I'm not going to have a good day today With the national team specifically Yeah and you can Yeah you can see obviously we use a different type of strikeer today with Justin Ellis But you can see Julian Hall doing all the Ballo

Big Pat I don't know Damien Downs types of things Those runs into the channels pulling defenses apart you know, just all of that. Like he has that.

And yeah, the more I watch him and you know, what's crazy is I became more impressed with him while watching him during his cold stretch. Huh. He's continued that same,

he's continued to have that same type of relentlessness. And he's been getting chances. He just hasn't tucked him home. You know, he continues to make the runs. continues to do the work, and he continues to be productive, at least in a ghost that's point of view. So, yeah, I'm, I am becoming convinced on Julian Hall. And nice ball from Seb, by the way, across the face goal.

You know, hey, Seb came in this match, man. This is mentality, brother. This is mentality. And I have to say, my boy, my sports burner on Twitter, who was, in Seattle at the Australia game with us. He hit me up yesterday. He said, is Seb stamped? And you know what?

I'm putting it on him right now. I'm stamping Seb, man. I'm stamping Seb. I've went a long time, kind of, not a long time. But, you know, I've kind of been, has some questions about him, about what's going on.

But look, he comes in this match. And you can, he has, he has the bit between his teeth. He's ready to go. He comes in this match. He's ready to go. He's pinging ball. left, right, just receiving the ball, pinging that thing on a rope over to the wings.

He gets to assess doing this. When he, right after this, he gets a, well, he pings a ball out to the left wing, and then in that patch of the play, ends up getting the ball back, touch, turn, shot from 30. You know what I'm saying? It's like the intention behind his actions.

Yeah. The intention behind his actions when he comes onto the pitch. When he scores his goal, you see how, you just see it in his face. You know, he came out on that pitch to prove a point.

At celebration after he scored a goal, he was like, you know, shame on you. Mrisio Paschino. Shame on you for thinking, Eunice Musa should start over me. For thinking Giovanni Raina should start over me, etc. You know what I'm saying?

Like, you can see the, you can see the grievance. You see it all over yourself, man. And so, you know, that's, that combined with the fact that we are actually starting to see more from Seb in games now from the U.S. Minnesota team for me, like at least I am. Maybe other people saw it before me. But, you know, he's, there's just more stuff coming. I mean, his QMR is going up, his quality moments above replacement, which I used to denigrate him before in the World Cup roster selection.

His QMAR is going, you starting to see it. You're starting to, like he did get caught on the ball at one point in the, match. A little slow with it. Played a pass. I got intercepted. But, you know, now that you're starting to see him come on the pitch, spray the ball all over the field. Like, you're starting to see what he can provide us in possession a little bit other than just set pieces. Because at first it was just set pieces. And everything else is pretty simple. Other than that, now you're starting to see open play ball striking. You're starting to see open play distribution. And, um, I'm with it.

Even though, like, you know, the dual stuff has not went away. He's still a committed, but what I say? What I say the other day? Committed but ineffective? Committed but ineffective defender. He still is that. He still is that. But I...

We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Because this is not a World Cup game. This is a bunch of guys playing for... Sporting Christal in the city of Lima. Sporting Christal, man. Come on.

He, but he did it in the World Cup. Now, against the Peru, I mean, against the Turkey A that may or may not have wanted to be there. I do think they kind of had a little something to play for it.

But, you know, I'm starting to, as time goes on, I'm starting to see a little bit more. And I got some time, I got some time for Sebastian Burr-Halter. I mean, he can't argue with his performance in this game. I do want to make a comp, back to Julian Hall for a second, seeing somebody throw himself at a ball that is skipping across the face of goal like that,

it reminds me of Clint Dempsey, the way he played again. If you watch his Fulham goal highlights, particularly, this dude was just laying it on the line week after week, head, everything, you know? and it's fun to see that, even though it couldn't be me. It's fun to see someone else do it. Also real quick, going back to the pen, just real quick, Malik,

taking the pen, scoring it, that's the perfect time to be language, brother. You know, that's the perfect time to be a Malik Tillman in that moment is penalty-taking. There's no defenders arriving from your back. No defenders. You don't got to wait on nobody. You know what I'm saying? That ticker that never gets sped up, right at home taking a pen.

Let's see. 75th minute, there's that Sebastian plays a ball out to Mathis. And then Mathis cuts in and gives it back to him. And this is Sebastian testing the keeper from about 30 yards. Not a bad hit. Not a bad hit at all. Not a bad hit, man. You can't want to pitch with a mission.

I'm talking about. Seventy Seventh minute, Frankie Westfield gets his debut, comes on for Alex Freeman. Brooklyn Raines comes on for Malik Tillman. We've got the aforementioned Austin not handling his business moment clocked here in the 78th, where he actually does get whistled for a foul here. I'm pretty sure.

He gets to a ball first. he's a bit languid on it running over towards the touchline proving a guy sticks his foot in and Austin kicks his leg and then he concedes a free kick where he didn't need to I don't think oh yeah he did but yeah anyway I would just like to see him come away with the ball here or just side foot it you know in the general direction of a teammate in a way that doesn't create a counterattack which is

is a little tricky, but 84th minute Gozo gets played in behind by Sebastian Burrhalter, whips it across. This is like pretty good chance here. Where's

where's Mr. Kreschewski's relentlessness here? Like get to this ball, buddy. Hey, he's running as hard as he can. Is he? Yeah. So maybe the ball's a little hot

from Gozo. I don't know. Yeah, it's a little hot. Like when you watch the replayback, like he does everything. in his power. And basically, when the ball is arriving to him,

Julian... He realizes he can't make great contact, so he's like, I'm going to just let it go through for the next guy. He really just can't make any contact. Like, he's running hard as hell, and he's, like, on his right foot. I guess he could have, like, slid and got it or something like that. But he's on his right foot.

The cross is coming from the right. And it's... Yeah, he just messes it by a hair, as you... Yeah. Obviously, you can see. and Albert collects it

behind the back post cuts in and shoots that shot is blocked over the goal and then we get well real quick

I just I just watch it back real quick and I think even tries to bat right foot is him almost attempting

a shot full sprint and then he kind of tries to lunge at it a little bit with his right and he just can't get to

it it's just a little bit too far I see Well Then we get our goal The Sebastian goal It starts with

In the 90th minute It starts with the Jedi playing A really really good ball In behind The defense For an in-out run From Hall Right

And he Cuts in Lays it off for Sebastian And what doesn't seem like A super dangerous moment And yeah Like he said earlier He just takes a purposeful touch and blasts it into the far corner from 25 yards

and then celebrates with a, you know, with a dash of aggrievement. And come on, man. Hey, yeah, we'll see, like you said, Bells, because obviously, like, one of the big failings, I guess, of the Sebastian Burr-Haltar ring was that Mexico game. you know, his inability to kind of get anything going and the fact that he kind of looked like overwhelmed by the moment and the talent on the pitch. So we'll see going forward in this window. But hey, man, if you want to convince me,

I'm convincedable. I'm not that stuck in my ways. Get out there, compete, and show some dogging and show some mentality, man. And Sebastian, Shabazz Burrhalter, he got out there and got to it, bro. He got to it. Like the fact, just the intention behind the earlier shot and this, like, bro,

he was sitting on that bench stewing, brother. He was like, hey, when I get in this game. You know how it is if you've ever been on a bench before, especially like the basketball game or whatever. Like, hey, when I get in here, I'm making it happen. I am making it happen. Sebastian got on here. Touch.

Intent. touch, turn, shot, both times. Like, hey, I'm getting these damn shots off. I don't know what y'all talking about. I am taking, I'm taking what I want. You know, I am creating minutes for myself. More competition has showed up in this team. A bunch of young dudes.

Hey, y'all don't work harder to me. Y'all not, you know what I'm saying? Y'all haven't put off of black people in the ways that I have. You know, I'm Sebastian Burrhalter. I'm out here on this pitch. I'm about to make it happen, man. And so, yeah, I mean, that's just that makes me, it makes me happy to see somebody competing in this way. And so, therefore, I'm on the, I'm on the train, man.

Yeah, I guess my concern is duels. Like, can he win duels against good players? Because this is the essence of soccer. Like, one v1. are you going to win your battles? And we'll see. We'll see. And right now, all evidence points to know,

which is why he ended up at Middlesbril as opposed to somewhere else. But we'll see if all the other stuff can take him above that kind of. Because it's like, this dude, he's continually getting better. It's true. What do you think it goes, though? Not great.

Yeah, agreed. Not great, I would say. Looks a little stiff out there. It looked a little stiff. Even when he was, like, there was some opportunity. I mean, there was one opportunity down the right wing where, like, what, he kind of dribbled it out of bounds, kind of lost control of it a little bit. moment right after the said goal where in the notes I just put Gozo doing some BS

where he was like he was on the right wing kind of trying to get by his dude but not the same level of intention that you see from some of the other guys in this game it's kind of like should I try to dribble here I don't know maybe I will okay I'll do it then the door was shut on him and he's like dribbling the other way

and this is like ah All right. All right. So. All right. And then we got, we got Mehdi and Neil Pierre coming on at the very end. I don't know that there's that much to say about him, but. Not that much say. Neil served up a couple passes, notable because for all the reason we've been talking about.

Yeah. So he did okay there. I did ask for your question about passing. Yeah. I listen, brother. Hey, I'm right there. quite Mike. Also, do want to shout

out Jedi. I mean, because Jedi played the ball to Matisse. Jedi played the Switch. Nice, driven, long switch over to Seb for the Julian goal. And what, he also played that ball. Oh, yeah.

Played, uh, oh, the ball into a Julian for the Seb goal. Yes. It's a really nice pass. Yeah, shout out to him. I mean, it was a whereas as Payton really provided us like zero and like buildup on the first second phases of play for the most part.

Yeah, Jedi came in and showed some Jedi things. Also, want to shout out Alex Freeman. I mean, we barely thought about him in this game. He's involved in some attacking sequences. But just his ability to find solutions in possession, just he's, he's, he's, He's that dude, man. He's a dude. He's a man who wins one v1 battles regularly all the time. And who was just like visibly big as hell and like uses it to his advantage.

It's like people are just bouncing off the man. And yeah, another person who uses his physical and technical advantages, he can find that beat. He can find that beat consistently. You know, I hadn't watched his last performance. I think Villarreal. played Levanti, I want to say. Yeah, one, three to one. And he, he was unbelievable, I thought.

He was unbelievable. If he's given that starting spot, I don't think he's giving that starting spot back up to Marino anytime soon. So, yeah, I just want to shout him out because he didn't come up too much in this timeline, but

just wanted to give him a little something. That's all. All right, so we play Chile, on Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern time. I imagine we'll see... Oh, I'm gonna be there. Rotation. Oh, you are? Yeah, I'm taking the fam.

I didn't realize it was fall break this week. But with it being fall break, I was like, I was like, oh, Kristen, y'all want to go to the, you don't go to St. Louis? So we're going to St. Louis. We will be at the match. Okay, have fun. And let's just keep, let's just keep watching, everybody,

and see what happens with all these young guys. I'm curious to see how much. rotation there will be in the starting lineup for Tuesday. Hey, thanks everybody for listening. We'll see you.