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00:12It is the United States against Turkey in an international friendly.
00:16The first of two matches that Maurizio Pochettino's side will play in this international window ahead of the Gold Cup.
00:23Switzerland to come in Nashville on Tuesday night.
00:26But first, this is a huge test for a young group of players, Kyle.
00:32I mean, a massive test.
00:33And I think also, in a way, a favor to do for the guys that aren't here.
00:38You know, get everyone back on a positive note.
00:40Get this great crowd behind you early on and match the intensity of Turkey.
00:47So with the rain coming down heavily in East Hartford, we are underway here.
00:54Had a wonderful season with Orlando City.
00:57And he's given his first start with the United States today.
01:00Here is Richards, the Palace man who lifted the FA Cup just a couple of weeks ago.
01:05Tillman in the midfield, up towards halfway, pushing the ball down the right side.
01:10For Jack McGlynn to strike forward.
01:12McGlynn calls it in!
01:13What a start!
01:15What a goal!
01:16Jack McGlynn with just 60 seconds gone!
01:24Incredible from Jack McGlynn!
01:26I love this player.
01:40I mean, just wonderful first touch.
01:42And look at him continue his run.
01:44And Turkey falls asleep for just a second.
01:46If you watch the tape, you know he's got a left foot and you know he's got a cannon.
01:50It just hammers this one.
01:52Gets a little top spin on it.
01:53I mean, Tillman does so well to put it out in front of him that he's thinking shoot this
01:57whole time.
01:58Just cuts it back.
01:59That is a very difficult angle to score that from.
02:02And just watch this.
02:03Watch this the ball.
02:04He doesn't put spin on it.
02:05It's top spin.
02:06He catches that sweetly with the inside of his foot.
02:10Here's the goalkeeper's view.
02:12That's a delicious finish.
02:13And what a start for this player.
02:17Let's let the pictures tell the story.
02:21And Berkay Özer, the Turkish keeper, beaten just 60 seconds into his senior international
02:27debut.
02:28The goalkeeper who plays for EOPS4 given the start today.
02:32They can isolate him.
02:33He's excellent.
02:34It's very dynamic going forward.
02:37Johnny Cardoso is pulled through down the right side.
02:41And they're cutting inside once again.
02:44And this McLaren lets it fly.
02:50That wonderful left foot wasn't too far away.
02:54And it just glides with the ball.
02:56And it's just a little baby bounce as he's going to hit it.
02:59Doesn't catch it as sweetly as he wants.
03:03Wrongs the goalkeeper.
03:04All the way out to that far side.
03:06And El Mali, the Galatasaray left back.
03:08And this one driven from distance.
03:15Freeze has to tip it over after the shot from Okun Kutsu.
03:19Matt Freeze is equal to it to ensure it remains 1-0 as Turkiet go close.
03:28Oh, he just absolutely hammers the one.
03:31I mean, it's hit right at Freeze, but it's dipping right over.
03:33Now Yul D's against Alex Freeman.
03:36Freeman on his debut in the right-back position.
03:4120 years old.
03:43Plays for Orlando City.
03:45And that's given away.
03:51A self-inflicted wound for the United States.
03:55Turkey A, our level.
04:02A mistake by Johnny Cardoso.
04:06And right now, it looks pretty calm.
04:16He finds a nice pocket.
04:18Good first touch with this one.
04:20He's just reaching for it.
04:22And it's a terrible mistake.
04:25Obviously, a freak deflection.
04:28But what a difficult pass outside of the right foot.
04:31He almost gets surprised by Gouillard.
04:34And Freeze, he's opening up to get that ball.
04:37Of course, nowhere near getting his feet right to expect that ball to come back to him.
04:42Really unfortunate mistake after such a great start from Cardoso.
04:45It will go down as Arda Gouillard's fifth international goal.
04:52Gouillard won the league.
04:54And Champions League in his first season with Real Madrid.
04:57A year ago.
04:59Here come Turkey A, once again, down the left towards Yildiz.
05:03Now Mali to the bylight.
05:04Pulls it back.
05:05And Atacolu couldn't get there.
05:06Driven back across goal.
05:08And it's put in by Atacolu.
05:10And Turkey A, with two goals in two minutes.
05:14Half the way.
05:15How quickly a game can turn around.
05:34And just absolute class by Gouillard in the middle.
05:38And Freeman just, he does a wonderful job to stand that up.
05:41But McGlynn runs into him rather than being able to overlap and catch up with him.
05:44And then a couple fortunate deflections.
05:48And it just falls so easily.
05:53Dr. Gouillard, Gouillard, he just rifles it into the ground.
05:57Skips over the players.
06:00And the U.S. right there, just backpedaling in that whole sequence.
06:03It's just feeling uncomfortable.
06:04But you've got to give a lot of credit to Turkey A.
06:06At least half for Connecticut.
06:09Push forward there by Juksek.
06:11And it's turned over once again.
06:19Kukchu driving forward for Turkey A.
06:22Kukchu with a strike.
06:24Straight to freeze.
06:25Turkey A just completely taken over the game now.
06:33The U.S. looking a little bit languid on the ball.
06:36Haven't gotten that confidence again.
06:38That's why it does enough there.
06:39Track it back.
06:40Pochettino wanted a nice day in the office.
06:42If you gave him one, it looked like he was headed towards it.
06:44But it's not a gift he wanted, but a gift he'll get.
06:47He's going to find out about a handful of players today.
06:53The U.S. at the top towards Atakolu.
06:59The U.S. at the top.
07:00Freeman's ball backwards towards Chris Richards.
07:05Now McLenn looking through towards Adjumann.
07:08Adjumann has support from De La Torre.
07:10And De La Torre looking across it towards the back.
07:12Post after with a header.
07:14This is a wonderful sequence.
07:23And this is a tough ball for Kukchu by the takedown.
07:25Just collects it beautifully.
07:27And the far-close run was there on his weaker foot.
07:30It's a wonderful ball.
07:31You can just wonder if options expecting a little flick.
07:33It's so close.
07:35Jellick's head might throw him off a little bit.
07:38Great opportunity.
07:40With Columbus last October.
07:42He's been very lively.
07:43I love how much he just puts his head down and wants to go forward the game so far.
07:47Was Adjumann fouled?
07:48He certainly thought so, but nothing given by the referee.
07:53Demiral at the back for Turkiye.
07:56Cross for Soyuncu, who made his debut against Sweden back in 2016.
08:00Turned over here.
08:05It's Adjumann on the edge of the box.
08:07Adjumann stings the palms of Urza in goal.
08:10And now Luna is down injured.
08:17Well done from Luna.
08:18Let me just watch as he hits the ground.
08:20He knows he's going to be able to make the contact.
08:22And I like this from Adjumann.
08:24He's got an overlapping run, but he hasn't gotten a clean shoulder on him.
08:27But the balance, not only to take that, but to make sure they don't give up the possession.
08:30Now they take this much landscape that you can start to set their attack again.
08:33McLean with a little ball down the right side for Tillman.
08:40And Tillman floats that cross in towards the back post.
08:43And driven in.
08:46Arfston with a second chance of the half.
08:50Yeah, De La Torre is giving it to him right now.
08:52And you'll see.
08:53I mean, just, this is what I mean.
08:55This starts with a long ball that U.S. was able to keep.
08:58Now, Turkiye just trying to recover.
09:01Just watch as it could have got dropped right here.
09:03He takes it off his chest.
09:03He could have just put that right to De La Torre.
09:06He's at the penalty spot.
09:07He looks to the sky.
09:08He can't believe that he doesn't drop.
09:11I mean, what a difficult piece of skill that would have been.
09:13And it was to try to hit the frame from there.
09:15Easier pass was just laid off.
09:19Played away by McKenzie.
09:23Arfston heads it forward.
09:26De La Torre battling and turning on his first start since November 2023 at Trinidad and Zerbega.
09:32Here's Diego Luna racing forward.
09:35It's four on three.
09:36Luna rolling the ball into the path of Jack McGlynn.
09:39And McGlynn on that left foot drills the shot.
09:41Comes back out towards Tyler Adams.
09:44Adams chips it into the middle.
09:46Headed straight at the keeper.
09:50Tillman either side of Urza.
09:52It would have been tied.
09:56A wonderful sequence.
09:58Well done by the referee to play on.
09:59And Luna, I love this.
10:02Terrific pass to put pace on it.
10:04You know that Levin wants to go to his left foot.
10:06But this is a beautiful ball for Tyler Adams.
10:10Just floats it up.
10:12He just hits it right to him.
10:17He's got that off.
10:19You just look at Pochettino's face over.
10:21There's a lot of room there to put that in the net.
10:24Here's a look at it.
10:26He just doesn't glance it off the side of his head.
10:28You want to see that ball spinning off the side of his head.
10:31It doesn't have to have a lot of power.
10:32To Richards.
10:36Lovely ball through to find Adams.
10:43Sullivan down the right side.
10:47Quinn Sullivan just off the bench.
10:49Swings the cross into the middle towards right at the back post.
11:01And now they'll get it back on that far side with Haji Wright.
11:07Along the byline it goes.
11:08Pulled all the way back towards Quinn Sullivan who takes a strike.
11:12He gets the applause from Maurizio Pochettino at the end of a good move.
11:16Started with the tenacity of Haji Wright on the far side.
11:20Really well done from Wright.
11:22He chased that the whole time and then just lovely little hesitation.
11:25Gets to the ball before it goes over the end line.
11:27A wonderful first touch.
11:28Just can't connect with it.
11:31That looked like a free kick there.
11:43The foul coming from Haji Cech, the substitute and the yellow card shown within two minutes of him coming in.
11:57Yeah, until a minute.
11:57You can see he just gets clipped a little bit as he's trying to run into the space.
12:05Third quarter of the afternoon for the United States.
12:08And towards the front post, Adams couldn't get the head on, comes back out towards De La Torre.
12:17Here's Tillman.
12:19Turned over here.
12:20And Ticcolu pushing it forward over halfway.
12:24And the race is on.
12:25Ardegula waiting for support.
12:28Borussia out by Jomas is through on goal.
12:30And the substitute fires wide.
12:40Really poor giveaway here.
12:41And it was a few times that they just overpassed.
12:43Didn't put each other in a good position to hit a ball in first time.
12:46Wonderful composure from Pierre.
12:50And that's a wonderful touch.
12:53And just right there, he wants a second touch to try to set up his left foot.
12:56He could really get a touch on.
12:57Ariel has it here as that one is played backwards.
13:02Nathan Ariel scoring a goal in a 2-1 win at Toronto.
13:05Back on Ney, the 28th.
13:07Sport played forward.
13:08Brian White battling for it as it's cleared away by Eskihala.
13:13Strong challenge there from Ariel.
13:16A yellow card is coming.
13:27Well, he had already committed, isn't it?
13:28He had to just drag that leg because that was going to spin in behind them.
13:32And even though he gets the ball, just has to go all the way through the player.
13:35And do so.
13:37Pitch time to go.
13:39The debutant Freeman, who will go 90 on his first appearance.
13:43With the throw.
13:44Gets the ball in then towards McKenzie.
13:47And wide to the left for Haji Wright.
13:49Tillman's in the middle.
13:50Wide there as well.
13:52Haji Wright up against Celik down the left side.
13:56Ariel.
13:59Wright.
14:00The U.S. need to get the ball into the box.
14:02Running out of time here.
14:03Turkey A with everybody back.
14:05Apart from Yulmaz.
14:08It's Adams.
14:10Tillman.
14:13One last chance.
14:15Quinn Sullivan whips the cross into the middle.
14:17It's put behind.
14:18It's a corner off at Kishek who almost found the top corner of his own net.
14:23And they've taken it quickly here.
14:26Freeman.
14:27Across for Adams.
14:31Quinn Sullivan towards the byline.
14:33Adams needs to get this into the box.
14:36The cross in.
14:37Flips on towards the back post and jumps down here towards Richards.
14:41Richards couldn't get the shot away.
14:43De La Torre picks it up.
14:45But nowhere for him to go.
14:48And that might be it.
14:51Indeed the whistle goes.
14:53In East Tartford.
14:53And it is a 2-1 win for Turkey A.
14:57Goals from Goulet and Akatolu.
15:00Inside 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
15:02Midway through the first half.
15:04After Jack McGlynn had scored 59 seconds in.
15:08To give the U.S. the lead.
15:10Well the margins were just so small this game.
15:12If you take the balance of the whole game.
15:14It's one of the better performances under the Pochettino era.
15:16Obviously it's an L.
15:18And they'll be disappointed about that.
15:20But you could circle a 2 minute period.
15:22Of poor performance.
15:24And just a couple plays in the first half.
15:25That really turned things around.
15:27And then maybe 2 chances that the finishing.
15:29Could have been better.
15:31And an L goes to a W.
15:32But in terms of progressing off of bad performances.
15:35Where you can highlight a lot of things that weren't good.
15:36This is directionally much better from the U.S.
15:40Switzerland next to come here for the U.S. in Nashville.
15:46On Tuesday.
15:47But here in East Hartford it finishes.
15:49With the U.S. losing against Turkey by 2 goals to 1.
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