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00:00For San Jose for their first Gold Cup game this coming weekend Mauricio Pochettino's side
00:06Heading into this one off the back of a 2-1 defeat against Turkey at the weekend
00:11And a special moment for the Aronson brothers Brendan and Paxton tonight
00:17Love seeing those out there just parents have to be super proud
00:20But Paxton and Aronson, I don't think US fans that haven't been following this club career have seen how special this kid can be
00:27We're underway here in Nashville
00:30Memorable night for those brothers a memorable night for Walker Zimmerman as well who gets the start today in the building
00:35He calls home with Nashville SC
00:38But a big test ahead here against a Switzerland side that is much change from the weekend
00:44ranked number 20th in the world the US
00:47four places higher at number 16th, but the Switzerland
00:52squad in confident mood after a 4-2
00:54win against Mexico in Salt Lake City at the weekend in front of a 41,000 crowd
01:03And this throw on the far side
01:06in towards
01:08Mbolo
01:10Monaco man
01:11Who will be a threat up top tonight 17 goals and 76 caps for the 28 year old grill Mbolo
01:19I mean the gun was walking down
01:21The tunnel and passed him I miss
01:24It's an understatement to say this guy's gonna be a handful. That's a good boy
01:27At the back tonight for the US trying to deal with Mbolo
01:32It is Mackenzie and Zimmerman the second game together for that pairing
01:36The first was a wonder loss in panama in a world cup qualifier in october of 2021
01:42Matt turner plays it downfield turner with the captain's armband on tonight the fifth time
01:47He's capped in the side the first since the gold cup in
01:512023 turner's first game for club or country since march and the nations league third place game against canada
01:58As berhalter in the midfield was able to pick it up and play the ball forward wide to the right it goes
02:11No way through down that far side for brendan aronson
02:20This is Zimmerman at the back for the united states who scored early 59 seconds is all it took at the weekend for jack
02:27McGlynn to find the back of the net to give them the one goal advantage against turkey
02:34The earliest the us have scored
02:36Since shaq moore found the net in the 2021 gold cup in just 20 seconds, but mauricio pochettino
02:43said he was
02:46Happy with the level that was set in terms of the way the team needed to work
02:49He said that now has to be the point from which they build they cannot let that level drop
02:56Anywhere below what they said at the weekend
02:59As it comes towards arston on the left side arston just one of two players who started in harford and starts again tonight
03:05Great link up way down left with brendan aronson's arston's cross was swung in and clear away at the back
03:12Excellent last game. I mean this is exactly how he started against turkey
03:16I mean just look at the high position and switzerland playing more of a medium block
03:20Really tucked in almost surrendering the wide side of the field lovely combination
03:25And you can see what he's trying to do right idea to try to hit it early and behind
03:28But a handful early on as he was last game
03:31Well pedi playing it back towards cobalt the russia dortmund goalkeeper a 13th cap for him tonight
03:37Still waiting for his first clean sheet
03:41As the starting goalkeeper played 90 minutes against mexico and has started eight of
03:4610 games now since the euros following the retirement of young summer
03:54Paxton aronson down that right side unable to find a way through as he linked up with quinn sullivan
04:01Two players that know each other having come through the ranks at philadelphia union
04:05And his debut at the weekend coming off the bench in hartford now across to austin a fifth cap for the columbus crewman
04:24Mackenzie across the back and zimmerman will strive forward
04:28You can see switzerland just inviting that ball into these wide positions they don't want any of those passes to break the lines internally
04:41Break down the line by berhalter into the path of brendan aronson
04:44Aronson and finds austin who had come forward elvedi across to put it out by the corner flag for a throw
04:51That's a few times now that he just terrific positioning here's that lovely bit of skill a moment ago
04:58He came on last game and sullivan was lively i love the confidence he's showing going to players early on
05:07Ariel starting it right back today having come on on the opposite side on saturday
05:13And this is mckenzie
05:16He does that for this club team as well and loves to tuck into the central positions
05:20We saw flieman do it occasionally later on in the last game
05:25Just creates another challenge no scheme for the switzerland players to be switched on
05:33Right forward here down the right side brian white chasing as it comes in towards the middle
05:37Kanji the manchester city man trying to get it away a bit of a battle in the midfield here as it's picked up there
05:43by ushari
05:45All right yakin 50 year old head coach of switzerland talking pre-game about the fact that he has made changes today to give some young players an opportunity
05:54Fipped away by kanji there the veteran 71st cap
05:58For the 29 year old manchester city defender berholt sending this one along towards
06:05The right side where he couldn't find the ball to paxton aronsson
06:10jakin with 49 caps as a player for switzerland as a central defender over a decade
06:19from 94 to 2004
06:22appointed as the swiss boss in august of 2021
06:25It was the 10th all-time meeting between these teams the u.s.
06:33winning just one of the previous nine it was in basel a 2007 friendly
06:38the 1-0 victory with michael bradley scoring the goal berhalter couldn't get a foot in there on his debut
06:43wide to the right it comes for johan manzambi
06:50and zambi just 19 years old
06:55enjoy down the left side this one's pulled back into the box and berhalter able to get there one of two
07:00vancouver whitecaps players starting this game tonight berhalter the other one brian white his club
07:05teammate yeah really well done from berhalter watched him that whole sequence just picking out the danger
07:09area as the ball shifted to the other side of the field very timely interception there
07:17berhalter the only debutant today but three players making their first us start
07:22hariel and sullivan the other two after making debuts off the bench at the weekend
07:26and toy down the left side good foot in there from hariel paxton aronsson down the right finds quinn sullivan
07:39with the ball forward towards halfway
07:49schmidt's leech united right back 25 year old teammate of brendan aronsson
07:59on the left side ricardo rodriguez the cross whipped it to the middle
08:02and zambi battling for it on his first start having made his debut at the weekend
08:10that was one of those details just so slow to get out there and brendan chaco switches the point of
08:14attack this this is a little more of a languid and conservative approach
08:20the last game from the u.s when they were flying around winning the ball
08:24this is just a lot of time for these high quality midfielders for switzerland to be on the ball
08:29right to the left here for gallon boy
08:34the u.s able to defend it now it goes for a corner eight minutes in here in nashville
08:40that's what bees was talking after the game and tillman was so excellent in the last game and
08:46in those little pockets turning around you know positionally covering making sure the ball doesn't
08:50enter but if it enters spinning around and trying to win it back and carrying all those deep playmakers for turkhead
08:58carlo rodriguez with the outswing headed away there by paxton arison
09:04fired in from distance
09:08abyshire the bologna man putting it wide just one career goal for switzerland
09:20and turner will get things going here rumored to be making a move to french football with leon
09:30reported that nottingham forest have accepted a bid
09:35up to nine million dollars and that's exactly what matt turner needs first team football
09:43leon do have a brazilian keeper right now who has been their first choice but he said to be leaving this
09:48summer so matt turner hopefully things falling into place in the year leading up to the world cup
09:54turner firing downfield looking towards brian white white who's having such a good season with
09:59vancouver whitecaps berhalter his club teammate flicking that one forward
10:06away it goes by cobalt and the pressure there from brendan aronson
10:12brian white and sebastian berhalter such a big part of vancouver whitecaps run to the conquer cap
10:16champions cup final
10:20his berhalter on the ball in the midfield
10:24johnny cardoso out to the right side cardoso playing the first half of the weekend
10:34and quinn sullivan against rodriguez
10:37nicely worked down that right side johnny cardoso's ball in no one there on the edge of the area as
10:46switzerland played up towards and bolo just short of halfway and the referee gives the free kick the way
10:52of switzerland andrew samuel the man in the middle tonight from trinidad his first u.s game in charge
10:58that's well done from zerman had to make that challenge he stepped read it early
11:07just allows his team to get back and transition but that's the one area mexico struggled big time with
11:13against switzerland last game is just one pass beat so many players and no one was close enough
11:17positionally to either force a foul or force a negative pass switzerland winning their last two games in a row
11:25mexico the weekend by four goals to two luxembourg 3-1 win the second game
11:32of the window in march first back-to-back wins they've had
11:38since june of 2024
11:41like it comes towards a kanji
11:50like just over an hour at the weekend on his first appearance for switzerland since last october
11:58two-time premier league winner with manchester city a kanji very compact the u.s
12:02i mean you can see there's probably only 30 yards between the back line and the first line of contention
12:07very important they get pressure on the ball if they're going to play such a high line
12:15i see a lot of communication between mckenzie and zimmerman early on
12:18now that he's pulled out wide to the left side and doy one of two bologna players in the starting
12:23lineup today into the midfield pushed forward by yashari the bruja man and the doyan around the back
12:30and this is what i was just saying i mean when you don't have a direct and immediate pressure on
12:51the ball i mean that's just way too easy obviously that's very fortunate that that deflection makes it
12:55through to enjoy but all of that space is behind the back line if you're going to be playing that high
13:01you just just not enough you can see players jogging to get into position and again i mean very
13:08unfortunate deflection just too easy for the switzerland midfielders and that's just a really nice
13:15finish low hard places it that's a tough save for turn to make which went off to a good start on their
13:24first effort they bury it goals and back-to-back games for dad on doherty who scored in the weekend in the
13:31win against mexico it's his fourth start in a row got a vital goal last summer in the euro's in the
13:391-1 draw against germany the final group game to seal the knockout round place
13:43a free kick given here
13:54jack rodriguez pleading their case to the referee but the u.s will get a chance for an immediate response
14:13the halter standing over it alongside quinn sullivan
14:28sullivan the 21 year old from philadelphia
14:43it will be berhalter with the deliveries the keeper got attached to it
14:49mackenzie was in there closest to getting ahead onto that one but it was pushed away there by
14:54cobell the danger not gone just yet though as the cross comes in there from paxton aronson
14:59jack had got ahead to it little flick on by embolo but he's giving it away and brendan aronson
15:04cushions that one back towards austin who finds walker zimmerman
15:08that's safe from cobell we'll see it see you in a moment boy that was a big save
15:23mackenzie brings it forward push down the left for austin he helps that one along the line but just out of
15:28play before brendan aronson could get on it i mean it's an excellent ball in here from brawl for tons
15:37of pace on it and you can see because he just just glances a header and here's a look that from our
15:44angle that was looked like it was going right in the side heading and you know cobell takes a step
15:49forward that cuts that angle down even before the header very big time save there from the atmt net
15:56camp switzerland lead here and play the ball out to the left the berhalter has been magnificent with
16:02his set piece delivery this season in major league soccer one of the reasons he's got the call up here
16:07rodriguez charging forward finds the goal scorer on doy back it comes towards ricardo rodriguez the cross
16:13headed away by mackenzie and drop towards the former arsenal man granite jacker now with bayer
16:19leverkusen but right now being linked with many different clubs across europe and a canji will float
16:26this one out towards the far side on doy gets by harry on and on doy with the strike and that one's taking
16:33a deflection for another corner this is this is a tough thing he's a debut to be going up against
16:46i mean he's lucky his teammate is there to bail him out lovely footwork there from a doy the step over
16:54is a nutmeg almost gets on the end of it second corner of the game as rodriguez takes it and goes short
17:00jackers ball forward
17:07now rodriguez still there pulls this one back to the edge of the area and fortunately for
17:12the united states johnny cardoso was able to get a touch because right as it came towards the edge of
17:18the box smith was about to let fly with a shot that's two really important last minute
17:25touches that cardoso gets on the ball and that that was going to be a very clear goal scoring
17:32opportunity almost just the bottom of his cleat that deflects it to take it away
17:38johnny cardoso getting another chance to start tonight and marizio pochettino admitting that the
17:43mistake at the weekend that led to the first goal the game tying goal by turkey did affect johnny cardoso
17:48mentally the rest of that game so it was a shame he was having such a great game i was loving del
17:55torio and him in the midfield and they were really just dominating and really get back into the game
18:02after that one but starting strong here played forward by ashari and johnny cardoso brings it down
18:08two sets of club teammates going up against each other tonight rodriguez the left back a teammate of
18:15johnny cardoso is at rail betis in spain and i mentioned earlier about isaac smith the right back
18:23who is going up against brendan aronson the lead united pair facing off against each other and in fact
18:32aronson has spent a lot of this first 18 minutes right in front of his club teammate aronson much more
18:42integral to lead united's promotion last season than schmidt who didn't play many minutes
18:50but they were on the pitch together for 10 games but only for a total of 42 minutes uh brendan aronson
18:56and isaac smith it's been starting to push up that first line of confrontation
19:01so the u.s can just stay calm and try to play out of this
19:04switch ball high forward headed inside there by arston brian white battling for it on halfway but
19:13granite jackal all played all the way back to kobe
19:19kobe starting 13 champions league games have four clean sheets in the champions league with dortmund
19:25they lost to barcelona in the quarter final part of the team that lost in the final against real madrid
19:32in the champions league team of the season in 23 24 jackup from a deep position finding a kanji
19:42one of the issues with the u.s without the ball right here
19:47just couldn't quite get there as the danger was read by a kanji and forward comes rodriguez down the
19:53left side the cross field ball picking out schmidt up against arston arston back towards turner who can
19:58clear up towards halfway
20:07that turner's last club appearance was the fa cup fifth round win against milwall
20:15and he's ball across the back towards zimmerman now in his sixth season with nashville the mls
20:20veteran who has played 276 regular season games across nashville dallas and lafc
20:30this is his first time representing the united states in nashville
20:33cap number 45 for zimmerman the native of lawrenceville georgia
20:3820 minutes in it's 1-0 canon doi scoring after 13 minutes
20:49ariel down the right side part of a heavy philadelphia union influence in this squad
20:53ariel part of the philadelphia union youth setup paxton aronsson was talking about how much easier it
21:12made it coming into the u.s camp the fact that he probably joined the first team around the same time
21:17as quinn mcglynn hariel this is white into the path of quinn sullivan
21:30beautiful take from white bring that down switzerland center backs thought he was
21:34all side but his assistant definitely got that one right
21:37well the thing with the pressing work is the u.s team it's one player at a time it's it's not
21:46sequenced where the there's a second player a third player that's already trying to close space and
21:51such just been pretty easy for switzerland to just beat that initial pressure because there's never a
21:56second third u.s player that's also pressing that was the thing they did so well against turkey last game
22:02kind of stuck between gears look i mean they're not really sitting back they're not really pressing
22:10it's just lacking that intensity it's not about going and chasing and flying all over the place it's
22:14about triggers that force the ball to one side and then you can see the movement of several players
22:20on the u.s that are closing the ball down we'll just see an individual supply that pressure so far
22:25that he fires it down the right side looking for manzambi
22:28halfston coming to close down manzambi cutting inside driving towards the byline a positive run
22:35it's put in right on the goal line for the second goal
22:41avisher scores from close range but it's the teenager johann manzabi who made it with a wonderful run
22:51and it's two nil for switzerland midway through the first half in nashville
23:00and then again no pressure on the ball i mean look at how much time
23:03canzabi has to pick this ball up i mean wonderful skill right here especially just
23:09arston's expecting the cross to come but he just drags the ball right here a little step over doesn't cross it
23:14drags it with him well too easy but it's obvious you gotta love this skill here's another look at it
23:20step over and arston at this point backing up he thinks that cross is coming he reaches he's off
23:25balance to try to block it and then just a really easy tap in at this point
23:32really strong start from switzerland but the u.s just allowing them so much space to come and attack
23:37and concerning now at the quarter mark in the game the u.s finding themselves trailing by two goals to nil
23:49they've really had just the one foray forward to test cobalt which came from that
23:54set piece that was taken so well by sebastian berhalter
23:58but this inexperienced u.s side
24:01now has to try and find a way to first limit any more damage and then climb back into this game
24:11you know pochettino talked a lot about what's required what he expects and it's not about you
24:17know giving the ball away or making mistakes or scoring goals it's not really that that tactical
24:23approach it's it's the passion it's the it's the requisite work ethic and and just being difficult and
24:30combative and hard to play against we saw that last game you know we saw a few minutes of bad
24:35mistakes right but overall very good performance where that intensity level rarely dropped we haven't
24:40seen anything match that intensity level so far yet this game that's one of those things that's just
24:45puzzling why is that happening what what does it take to be able to get the point across to maintain
24:54that requisite level of competitive spirit and and just being difficult winning your individual battles
25:03so i'm doing with the first abyshire with the second and switzerland in control here
25:10abyshire's second international goal his first came
25:13almost a year ago he scored and assisted in the 3-1 win against hungary to open the euros last year
25:23had some time out with an injury between october and february but abyshire starts tonight
25:30the u.s conceding two first half goals in back-to-back games for the first time since 2013
25:49marizio pochettino's side responded well after being rocked by those two goals in a little over
25:55two minutes at the weekend and dominated the second half and the second half out shooting turkey a 10-2
26:04maybe a different story here today because we're at yakins side
26:08has looked extremely strong and the u.s unable to get a foothold at all so far
26:14no tyler adams tonight he's not amongst the squad because of a foot issue
26:18is andoy down the left side plenty of movement forward here for switzerland and doy curling that
26:25one in austin deals with it
26:32menzabi and and doy this is just a dream game for them i mean they're picking up
26:36the ball facing forward with with 15 yards here here goes again to take people on
26:41rarely a second defender there that they've got to be
26:44smith coming forward from fullback the assistant with the flag up on the near side for offside
26:58this the first meeting between these nations in the united states since the 1994 world cup
27:04that's the only time they've met in a non-friendly match
27:071-1 draw in detroit with eric winaldas free kick leveling the game
27:14the most recent meeting was a 2-1 scoreline in favor of switzerland in may of 2021
27:25brandon aronsson played in that game so did mckenzie they start tonight dest
27:30and ream also in the squad the only other players involved in that match
27:34of course this is the final game before the gold cup which starts
27:37sunday against chinadad and tobago in san jose
27:43then it's austin for a match against saudi arabia before
27:46finishing the group against haiti in arlington
27:48sullivan hariel trying to win the ball back on the far side but this comes towards jack
28:02jack with the driven ball away spent seven seasons at arsenal won the fa cup twice
28:14the europa league one runner-up during his time there as well in 2019
28:19hariel down the right
28:30across the berhalter
28:34into the 29th minute arfston picks it up down the left side finds brendan arons
28:38in the middle with the high ball forward aronsson going chasing
28:46and schmidt puts it away for a throw for the united states here really well done from schmidt
28:51thought he was beat there lovely bit of skill to collect that on the head and be able to
28:55swivel and play it out and thought he was in hariel getting set to launch the long throw in towards the penalty area
29:14he's made as far as zimmerman back out towards hariel who cushions the header down
29:28his arston
29:32schmidt gets it away and pensy came to try and get there but it's picked up in the midfield here
29:37and then the cross field ball from rodriguez wonderful into the path of mbolo he's in around the back
29:46it's growing bolo here against arston he got back scrambled into position got the block in but now
29:53struggling to deal with mbolo here and it's good out of play for a swishling corner
29:57another
30:04tackle ball that just plenty of space for him to run him behind and he just doesn't get
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