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00:02Went to the World Cup as a player with Argentina
00:08Talks about how much this will mean to do it as a coach as well with the United States
00:16First opportunity here for Germany then and the right foot out swinging delivery clear away at the front post, but
00:22it'll fall
00:24Of the bar
00:28We are sunny coming to get there is that the u.s. Get things going quickly
00:33Look wobbling Kyle Martino in the booth and Melissa Ortiz pitch up
00:38Really excited to have spoken to Mauricio. He was happy with his players as he said in that interview
00:44Now what I want to see out of this team right now
00:47And it's something that Tyler Adams had touched upon was managing the transition moments
00:50But also moving the defensive lineup, so there's not so much space in between the lines and that's something that
00:56is hard to sustain
00:57Against a team like Germany, but it was really awesome to see in the first half how many dangerous
01:03Chances the u.s. Created on Germany how many corner kicks they also created now. It's about capitalizing on those
01:09set pieces
01:12Tillman turning down the right side
01:17So pochettino
01:18Asking the referee why a free kick wasn't given that for his side, but this is habits on the left
01:24touchline for Germany inside. It goes towards
01:26pavlovich
01:28And now picked up by balagan for the u.s. Balagan running toward the edge of the box. This is
01:32tillman
01:32Tillman rolls it through
01:33Pulisic denied
01:34Pulisic again
01:36Pulisic again
01:36And that is knocked on the bar by Tillman
01:39A great double stop from bauman, but the flag had gone up anyway. It wouldn't have counted
01:46Bauman didn't know that
01:48Yeah, right there
01:51I love what balagan's trying to do. Yeah, timing's a little off. I want to see balagan hit that though
01:55I think Christian's a little lucky that the flag goes up because West McKinney looking in right there
02:02U.S. Start in the second half like they ended the first
02:12Game of extra significance of course for like Tillman when born in Germany
02:19He's been waiting a long time for this game very special for him and his family
02:25Born in Nuremberg he said when he sat down with Greg Berhalter at the time and
02:29Talked to him about his plan for the team and what he wanted out of Malik Tillman
02:34It's pretty obvious
02:37Decision for him to be able to commit to the United States
02:40He gets the chance to face the country of his birth today
02:43It's running down the right side with the ball into what's habits better space there is it driven from distance
02:47It's a very good save from Threes who got down low to deny Felix Mecha
02:57It's a good layup of the ball comes a little bit awkward it's in the middle of the steps
03:01It's not one well and not only a good save from Threes but making sure the rebound doesn't come off
03:05and smothers it
03:07Ah the pressure here from Weston McKennie
03:10And Thar defends it well
03:15Dest was the furthest forward there putting pressure on the Germany goalkeeper
03:20And it worked because that one has gone into touch on the far side just the one shot on target
03:24in the first half
03:25But what a shot on target it was
03:27It's Christian Pulisic
03:29Pulisic still going
03:30He's shot down
03:31The referee waves it away
03:33Wow
03:33Looks a certain free kick right outside the area there
03:36As Schlotterbeck came in I think it was with a challenge
03:40Christian Pulisic can't quite believe it
03:44Referee Piero Maso of Chile
03:46One subtle thing I love from Christian today is there's a few times he's been hit
03:50Might be a foul and he just gets right back up and he's just switched on
03:56On this near side the first half he took a flattering challenge and got back up and we've seen him
04:00sometimes
04:02Obviously these players are going to come after him and
04:04Even though he's trying to get out of the way and Christian's in control he's moving in that path
04:10That's a foul but I just love that Christian's not showing that the tackles and the tugs and the bad
04:16calls are throwing him off his game
04:20Freeman down the right side a player who over the course of the last year
04:23Has cemented himself in Maurizio Pochettino's thinking
04:28Having just made his debut a year ago
04:30The same for Matt Fries in goal, it was just a year ago tomorrow he made his debut
04:37Against Turkiere, here's Havertz towards the corner flag
04:44Havertz, Havertz
04:48Havertz, back for Virc
04:52Bootleg fiers
04:52With Turkiere, of course, the third game of the group stage at the world cup
04:55The US having played all three teams in the last year that they will meet in the tournament
05:00Ground ball forward, Havertz plays it back
05:03And driven in from distance by Zane, I think it was, it goes off Robinson
05:15Slotterbeck under pressure there from Serginio Dest
05:17The US have been up for the battle today, haven't they, against a real heavyweight
05:24Musiala, turning against McKennie
05:29Mecha, driving forward, the challenge coming in from McKennie
05:35Referee, allowing a lot to go here as Pulisic steps inside
05:39Lovely skill from Christian Pulisic, and out at play goes for a throw, Mecha is still down
05:47Watch the skill, little bouncing step over
05:56Lovely
06:05Last week was his eighth game with a goal and an assist for the US
06:09Christian Pulisic, Mecha here along the edge of the box with Sané
06:12But the US trying to get it clear here, it's McKennie, that is a free kick
06:15Kiddick is fouled
06:18But Christian Pulisic
06:21Not happy, Mecha is taking it quickly, the referee is pulling this one back
06:31I think it was just a little kick out here from Pulisic
06:36Barely any contact, but he just gets him enough that the veteran knows he's just gonna hit the ground
06:44Well it's almost the same spot at the other end that they scored from with the free kick two minutes
06:48in
06:48Yeah, and one thing that Brad pointed out to me I didn't notice is the amount of players in the
06:53wall tells you a lot about what a goalkeeper is thinking
06:55And that first chance, that's a difficult angle because it's not a great shooting angle, but four players in the
07:01wall
07:01Just maybe that was one thing is freeze just had in his mind shot so much
07:06So at the same same sort of set up here
07:10Yeah, because if freeze cheats out and then get curls over the wall and goes near post then he's in
07:15You know, then he's at fault for that
07:16So just a really difficult thing for freeze to get this right obviously
07:20Can hardly see the ball
07:22This new thing in the modern era of players standing and blocking the view players lying behind
07:26I mean goalkeepers see the ball very late
07:32I think standing over it
07:34No danger this time
07:43Crowd playing their part today with their reaction here letting the
07:47Germany side know what they thought of that effort
07:49Well another thing that proves how far the game has come over the years is
07:52In the first half a lovely little sequence where the US plays out of pressure
07:57And gets the clap from the crowd right there terrible free kick it gets the you know, the jeers from
08:02the crowd
08:04This is a country that loves football and watches it all the time and definitely has grown into being students
08:09of the game
08:11Balogun was fouled
08:12Tar with a tug on the arm of Balogun as the US look to break there
08:19A little scrappy right now, but this one's played forward towards Parasic in the first touch just a little too
08:24heavy
08:24Wide open isn't it here
08:26Ten minutes after halftime
08:28Just a tough right his knee
08:29If that goes off that part of the thigh where he wants it
08:33It goes right into his path to hit it with his left foot
08:36It just misjudges it
08:38Thumbs up for the ball in from Adams
08:41He's having a game though
08:42He's he's irresistible right a complete handful
08:55The pressure coming there is turned on but the referee gives the free kick
09:02Germany play a dangerous game there because the US suppressing well
09:09Sort of toughen that replay
09:13To be fair the referee had a very good view of it
09:15As Tillman came in Freeman climbs highest to head away
09:18Dest with a little flick
09:24And now the question for Murcio Pochettino is how much do you want to see out of this 11 and
09:29when do you
09:30Take them off and wrap them up and make sure that they're safe and sound
09:34The hour mark is probably when we see some changes
09:39You talked earlier about Chris Richards
09:40He hasn't played since his injury
09:44Having not played in either of these warm-up games
09:47Can he go and start the first World Cup game?
09:51I mean if he's fit enough absolutely
09:53He is one of the first players
09:57Penciled into a starting 11
09:58Incredible leader and it makes a big difference when he's out there
10:01So if the coaching staff and the medical staff deem him fit
10:05He's starting that first game
10:06Seems very optimistic Chris Richards
10:09And Mauricio Pochettino yesterday in the presser
10:12Showed his frustration in terms of the communication
10:14He didn't think that it would take this long in terms of recovery
10:17But he's on the road to recovery
10:18And hopefully he does make it at some point in the World Cup
10:21Match with the ball across gold
10:23Tim Green throws it away
10:24The Charlotte man out into touch on the far side
10:31Always a smile on the face of Chris Richards
10:36Along the edge of the box of Musiala
10:40And they drive it in by Sané
10:42And they drive it in by Sané
10:44Germany back in front
10:54What an incredible first touch
10:56Watch how hard this ball gets rifled in
11:00And very compacted
11:02Just cleans it up
11:03And it's the shot that comes through the legs
11:06Looks like it's Robinson
11:08And takes a deflection as well
11:10That makes it so hard for Freeze
11:12You know maybe if it doesn't take that deflection
11:14He's right there, he's got to reset
11:16His feet even with the deflection taking some pace off of it
11:19It still has enough pace to go in that far corner
11:25And now the U.S. must find a way to come from behind once again
11:32They'd had their chances to take a lead for themselves
11:35And couldn't find the back of the net
11:38Punished now by that effort from Leroy Sané
11:46His 17th international goal on cap number 76
11:49As he heads into a second World Cup
11:53Two appearances in Qatar
11:54For Sané
11:57Substitute appearance in the second group game
11:59A draw with Spain
12:00An assist and a start against Costa Rica in the final group game
12:04A 4-2 win
12:12Getting set to make a triple change
12:16And Havertz has it here
12:17In towards Musiala
12:21Musiala still battling there as Robinson clears away
12:23USA as well looking to make a change
12:25You see players taking off their pennies
12:27Mark McKenzie Austin trustee
12:30Giovanni Reyna
12:33And Sebastian Berhalter
12:36And Sebastian Berhalter
12:36And Sebastian Berhalter
12:41Freeze comes to Klay
12:47Adams
12:48Forward towards Balogun
12:50Adams
12:53Forward towards Balogun
12:59Now McKennie
13:02So approaching the hour mark
13:04And changes coming on both sides
13:11Anton Valdemar will be coming in for Germany
13:19Also gathered round
13:20His first down the left
13:22He's up against Miles Robinson
13:24Ball into the middle
13:25Finds Havertz who has some space
13:30Sané cutting in
13:32Kimmich sent down the right touchline
13:34But Anthony Robinson able to get there first
13:36Cleared only as far as Sané once again
13:38Right now he's the match winner
13:39With 30 minutes left to play
13:41In the final game before the World Cup
13:45Four U.S. changes coming
13:50To the right goes
13:52Sané just keeping it in play at the byline
13:54Come on
13:57Let's go
13:59Kimmich
14:00Looked like Sané was offside
14:06Austin trustee and Gio Reyna coming in
14:08Sebastian Berhalter as well
14:10And looks like Mark McKenzie will be in also
14:29So Germany with the changes first
14:31And Valdemar will replace Kimmich
14:39Kai Havertz's day is over
14:43Daniel Brown leading the game as well
14:45Daniel Brown leading the game as well
14:48No. 6
14:49Robinson just receiving some treatment
14:51So he's down on the pitch at the moment
14:53Might need to receive some treatment
14:55No. 22
14:56David Crowe
14:58No. 3
15:00And No. 26
15:03Dennis Luba
15:05You can see him reaching
15:07Behind that left leg
15:09And this heat
15:10With how much he's been up and down the flank
15:11The hope would be just cramping up a little bit
15:15And substitution
15:16From down here is looking like he's
15:18Potentially getting ready in case he needs to come in
15:25So both central defenders being changed by Maurizio Pochettino here as Ream and Myles Robinson make way
15:33He couldn't see it
15:38Looks like Robinson stood up and immediately hit the ground again
15:41No. 22
15:42Mark McKenzie
15:47Mark McKenzie
15:48Well Dr. Bees right here says it's cramp
15:49For we got Dr. Bees
15:50So that's good news
15:52Nothing more serious
15:58Bees walks like that right now
16:03well Anthony Robinson is coming up it seems as if Timree might stay on now as they change things
16:09around so Anthony Robinson, Miles Robinson, McKinney and Pulisic the players leaving the game
16:25every U.S. fan turning up field mics right now turn their TV as loud as it could possibly go
16:35where the lip readers had a concern with Anthony Robinson forced off just after the hour mark here
16:47Undar coming on up top to replace Kai Havertz Havertz have come into the starting lineup today
16:54to replace Undar who turns 30 on the day of the World Cup final the Stuttgart man
17:02this second international brace a week ago against Finland quite a scoring rate at
17:08international level six goals in eight games for Dennis Undar
17:12talks about that game against Finland with the pink sheet I mean he was it was all over
17:17really good goal scorer wonderful running off the ball
17:26Pavlovich
17:35Adams
17:46long sleeve was a choice
17:51he was a short steep guy
17:55did you ever get the choice yeah I think that was more the long sleeve dude
18:00played forward here towards halfway now Tillman
18:07I love the story when we were in Atlanta did someone find a Kyle Martino jersey that they gave to
18:12you in Atlanta that you'd never seen before with a number that you didn't have
18:15it was it was obviously a camp that maybe I left early or it didn't play on in that jersey
18:23didn't play in that number so it's a collector's item it really is
18:28so Mackenzie at the back alongside Tim Ream and off to the left it's trusty at the moment
18:36and Dest has gone across to the far side it seems
18:42so pretty much those three central defenders right now with Freeman on the right side Dest on the left
18:48pushing forward Balogun on halfway there
18:51let's look all the way back towards Bowman
18:57there's Rahm who took the place of Brown at left back
19:11boots
19:17Pavelovic on the edge of the box comes back here Pavelovic once again
19:20looking for the top corner
19:23up
19:37Robinson getting a little bit of treatment
19:41we're told from down there people who have been watching that they're stretching out his leg
19:48so it means us say about that
19:51no nothing bees bees needs his leg stretched these bees yesterday got in for two minutes at your at Kyle
19:57Street FC event here in Chicago
20:00um I cannot deny nor confirm
20:04but he said he was like wiped after just two minutes
20:09Alec and unable to get there as tar plays it up towards halfway he's got the captain's armband on now
20:13Jonathan Tarr at the back after the departure of Kimmich
20:18Sané across halfway Pavlovich goes backwards
20:30a few U.S. changes going to happen quite soon
20:34with Brendan Aaronson
20:36Max Arbson Joe Scali Christian Roldan
20:42and Pepe
20:44putting on their jerseys and you're right you know Anthony
20:47the medical staff is massaging his leg right now and stretching out his leg hopefully it's nothing
20:52obviously serious you know we've been in those similar situations this is just by assumption but
20:56when you have a cramp as an athlete you know that's that's that's the way to to really relax the
21:01muscle but I will confirm
21:05that's that's the way to do that
21:06you're right
21:08Mauricio Pochettino pretty much emptying his bench here
21:11we're also getting set to come in down there as uh Adams plays it across to dest on the far
21:16side
21:16dest back for Tyler Adams
21:19trusting the Celtic man who won the league in dramatic fashion in Scotland on the final day
21:25ream across for Mackenzie
21:28this is where you want to see geo reina come and get on the ball and create the game so
21:32good
21:33tight spaces terrific composure with both feet creativity he didn't get on the ball and try to
21:40break down this low block back it comes to mckenzie who talked to us about how much it means to
21:45him to
21:46be in this world cup score having just missed out played the final couple of friendlies in
21:50september before the world cup in qatar
22:05general valing the stuck-up winger getting set to come in for sané
22:20here's freeman a little over 20 minutes remaining here as tillman goes back towards mckenzie
22:35i'm just catching tillman and the referee i think is going to his pocket with a yellow card coming for
22:39the substitute round the leipzig fullback started all three games in qatar and will be heading to his
22:48second world cup
22:52just just really late that one hurts too and you can see plants
23:05so here comes the hydration break with a little over 20 minutes remaining here
23:15germany leading it by two goals to one it was kai havertz who scored inside the opening two minutes
23:21only for anthony robinson with a stunning unassisted strike from outside the box to
23:26tie things up in the 37th minute but leroy sané with the goal makes it 2-1
23:37and if you missed it stand by here is the goal scored by anthony robinson today
23:48and this is such a difficult skill to pull off as this ball comes out it's coming from well up
23:53there
23:53it's got a lot of time spent on it and just waits for it to drop you've got to start
23:57your kicking motion so
23:58early and just smokes it catches it absolutely perfectly there's going to be a lot of players
24:06around the country going to the backyard or going out to the field right now trying to do that with
24:09their buddy don't try the backflip they're going to try that volley for sure
24:16okay in this water break swap out the technology swap out
24:21the laptop mauricio is giving instructions on the good old whiteboard
24:39well it seems as if everybody will get a chance to play apart from alex and dejas today i'm not
24:45sure hadji wright is coming on either
24:56it's difficult really to assess at this point the game in terms of who wins it mauricio pochettino will
25:02probably be looking at that first hour of of the way that his team played for
25:08a starting point of what he's looking for when the real thing kicks off next friday now it's just
25:13about managing minutes and getting through to the end of the game safely isn't it
25:17i mean last game obviously the intensity didn't drop and the performance didn't drop when they
25:22made wholesale changes he'll expect similar he wants the team to go perform he wants to be counting on a
25:27lot of these guys but make no mistake that was the starting 11 or one or two players that you
25:32just saw
25:32and i think for pochettino he's got to feel good that his team's ready for terabyte on friday luke you
25:39mentioned safely and that return safe to home or before they travel and i just got confirmed that
25:45anthony robinson's injury is cramps so nothing too alarming to be worried about
25:53you should see bees up here celebrating dr bees
25:58as it goes for a throw by the corner flag
26:02a few people celebrating not just bees that that is a good news for anthony robinson
26:08berhalter's ball inside towards roll down especially berhalter linked with a move to the english
26:12championship over the course of the last 24 hours derby county one of the destinations that has been
26:18mentioned for berhalter who of course has been so good for vancouver whitecaps he was named to his
26:22second mls all-star team in the last couple of days as well the challenge is still flying in here
26:29from both sides pavlovich in the midfield out towards rahm the left back
26:33it's stopped again it's stopped again
26:39luciana sliding it through back across goal and freeze has to go as berthes gets in
26:46breeze did his job
26:55well done i just got clobbered right off of his feet
27:04that was a nasty collision and here's freeze trusty does a really good job in centering the first one
27:12first has a right to go for that very brave from freeze
27:16getting forward by geo reina back towards halfway ram gets that one and then out of play off the head
27:28of joe scali he talked the head of this game about the fact that he knows most of the players
27:35on the
27:36opposition team very well of course from club level sees them all the time played against most of them
27:41so said it was going to be a special moment for him russia mönchengladbach man to get in
27:47and get some action here against germany waldemar's ball backwards finds tar
28:16he's going to be a part of the world cup he's going to be a part of the national anthem
28:17he faces the
28:18flag in honoring him and the military he also shared about the obstacles in his career and he
28:24said quote biggest obstacle was before joining the national team was finding a platform to show what i
28:30can do he's found that at nycfc and hopefully he'll find that platform at the world cup and he said
28:36i don't want to be good i want to be one of the greats
28:41so many great stories throughout this squad
28:45reina down the line it goes for peppy peppy with the cross in towards the back post it was a
28:49great
28:49ball wide for austin on the far side now it's geo reina
28:57and reina just couldn't quite get the power behind that one another player of course with
29:03connections to germany
29:08fasted his dad
29:11bauman with the high ball downfield and trusty's header back towards matt freeze
29:2115th cap today for freeze who has now started
29:2815 of the last 18 since his debut against turkey
29:31three penalty saves in the gold cup quarter final last year the shootout against costa rica
29:42and every minute of all 15 games in mls for new york city fc this year
29:57it's the first world cup squad for the u.s since 1990 with no
30:01goalkeeper for the united states playing for a club in europe
30:06freeze turner and brady the three goalkeepers in this squad all
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