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The Sports Junkies recap Turkey’s win over the USMNT.
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00:00So last night kickoff was 10 p.m. for the third World Cup game for the United States
00:07men's national team as there is still in the qualifying stage but everything was already
00:14set for the United States we know that they're going to play Bosnia on July 1st that wasn't
00:19going to change whether they won 10-0 lost 10-0 it wasn't going to change locked in but
00:24people wondered how is Pochettino going to approach this game well as expected the four
00:30guys who were on yellow card did not participate the entire back line was not there like Chris
00:39Richards the guy with the man bun he wasn't there Ream so you got to see a lot of the
00:46backups
00:47on the field but the question I have is losing the game which they lost in the very
00:54last minute which to you is always controversial because I'm watching the game and they'll
00:59show you how much extra time there is right so they flash plus seven 97 minutes I think
01:05the goal probably scored at 97 59 it's just it I couldn't believe that like I expected the
01:12whistle to be blown earlier and the ball went out of bounds and he didn't blow the whistle
01:16and usually they'll wait until the end of a play but it seemed like there was end of a
01:20play a couple times and it just extended and then um the turkey had the ball guy nutmegs
01:29uh Pulisic so he nutmegs him then he passes back then there's a cross and just the defense
01:35didn't cover the guy on the far end of the field and he put it away and so they lose
01:41and
01:41my question is this it was supposedly a meaningless game it would have been nice for them to win
01:47because it would have been the first time they would have won three games in the group I think
01:51it's never happened or if it happened happened in like the 30s all right really hasn't happened
01:55in modern times um do you worry that that kills the momentum no I put this up as our junkies
02:04poll
02:04of the day I don't worry about meaningless results where they play nine out of 11 players who won't
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02:24drink responsibly and the question is are you worried that the men's national team has lost momentum
02:30after losing to turkey in a meaningless game last night where they rested most of their starters
02:35so you can vote at junks radio you clearly are a no I'm a little worried I like I like
02:40momentum
02:41last night's result big nothing burger I would say encouraging signs and let's actually play the
02:48audio Christian Pulisic can be in the game um roughly 60 minutes into the game here's the crowd reaction
02:59Tim way I'll be coming off Christian Pulisic makes his return
03:27so
03:27so there was a lot of excitement the celebrities were out uh Brad Pitt was there he was a lot
03:32of excitement
03:32with Edward Norton uh saw Will Ferrell uh some other bad fight club jokes yes you're saying just
03:39Ed Norton was there talking to an imaginary friend just the hackiest of the hacks out to do a joke
03:44I
03:45think I mean I know they lost the game I think it's good for the players the backups that they
03:50actually got into one of those games sure I think there's definitely some positives helps them a little
03:54bit you know because they had they weren't going to play they're not going to play in the knockout round
03:58so you know they got uh meaningful minutes that they wouldn't have gotten before I I think there's
04:04definitely merit to that and I that's why I thought uh Pulisic might play and he did play and he
04:09played
04:10very well um you could see his he cakes described him as electric on the field and he is when
04:18especially
04:18he's on the left side like he he just seems faster than everybody else I mean how he handles the
04:23ball
04:23playmaker he had one which was um he went down left side and and crossed it back and I think
04:30he
04:30got deflected but I can't remember which player it was on the U.S. men's national team but he had
04:35a
04:35point like it I called goal before it happened and then he just kind of shanked it just missed it
04:41um
04:42he creates opportunities for sure but this is where I think it could kill some momentum
04:47my son is not into soccer at all he doesn't follow international soccer now we've played FIFA
04:52before on PlayStation but he's not necessarily a huge fan I but I think he's representative of a lot
04:58of kids and people that have gotten into the World Cup he sends me a text at the end of
05:02the game he
05:03wasn't he was over at his mom's house he says I'm hooked to Team USA soccer this was at 11
05:0728 he goes
05:09they play so high paced fun to watch if they had a better defense I think they'd be contenders to
05:14win
05:14and then after the game like right when they blew it he goes bad look kills all the momentum oh
05:20and
05:21I agree to some extent that there were fans we started talking about this the other day
05:25even Zlatan said they could win it all and there are fans dreaming of this long run and now I
05:32think
05:32there's going to be kind of a pullback in that you lose to Turkey who had zero points hadn't scored
05:40a goal
05:41you give up in soccer terms you gave up a bunch of goals to Turkey okay that's a bunch of
05:48goals
05:49um I think there's going to be a lot of lost faith and a lot more skepticism first of all
05:54it doesn't matter what the fans think of course doesn't matter that so I just rule it out
05:59and then they played backups yeah you're reading too much into the result there could be
06:03they brought in starters if you weren't watching the game they brought in Freeman
06:08I know but too little too late it's like the same thing that happened with Spain they brought in
06:12Yamal right in the last 20 minutes it was super exciting and they just weren't able to finish off
06:16and the next game they won 4-0 yeah right it just it's when you're not you need your starters
06:22to play
06:22you need to play 90 minutes it's sure it might be a little bit of maybe of a lingering something
06:27in the back of their brain but what you just it's like an exhibition last night was borderline an
06:32exhibition yeah I just don't think you can agree with on the field but I believe that the fans
06:39it doesn't matter have lost a little faith this is because they're stupid well it's fun they're
06:45gonna be right back on it yeah it doesn't matter what the fans think doesn't matter what I'll say
06:49this I think Cakes was the one just chalking up Bosnia as a dub for the U.S. men's national
06:54team
06:55here's the thing about Bosnia I believe they've scored the most on corners I'm not guaranteeing
07:00a win I'm just saying well it's a good draw yeah as far as like they're not drawing the world
07:05power
07:05in the first line defenders for America will be on the field right it's not going to be the backups
07:10that gave up some cheapies although this my daughter was went to a big party and on fancy
07:15party with a bunch of Cornell people um and I it was news to her and my daughter you know
07:20pretty
07:21smart girl and I said you know Meg and she was like lamenting that she was gonna be out late
07:25and
07:25you know she works a real job gotta be up early I said Meg you know the game doesn't even
07:28matter
07:29she said what oh she didn't know I said the game doesn't even matter that game so like the general
07:33public they don't even know right it was like an exhibition it's an NFL preseason game it's like
07:38losing your mind over an NFL preseason game do you think fans would have why would you do that
07:43you think fans would have felt the same way if they if turkey didn't score in that last second
07:46they just it was a draw I think fans would have felt a little bit different yeah I would just
07:52they got a fluky you can chime in if you want to chime in 1-800-636-1067 it wasn't
07:57fluky turkey
07:59created a bunch of chances yeah and the weakness of the backups u.s men's national team is the back
08:05line like that's what all the experts say how you evaluate it they were different guys and you bring
08:10them in the last 20 minutes to try to save the day if you think the starting back line is
08:13weak when they
08:14put the backups in of course there's going to be extra pressure put on them yeah and turkey turkey
08:18can play completely you know like stress-free but because they're out of it yeah they have nothing
08:24they have nothing to worry about they can attack attack attack and it doesn't matter and it doesn't
08:28mean that the u.s when they're at full strength they're going to easily win their next game they
08:31might very well lose with their starters I just think there's no correlation between the two like
08:37zero it's a one-off I mostly agree with you but I think there's a little trepidation going into the
08:43next round and there were a lot of the you know the the analysts after the game questioning what
08:48pochettino did sure I I thought I saw maybe I'm wrong because I told you from the beginning I'm not
08:54staying up to start a game at 10 p.m this is life's too short I'm trying to keep my
08:58blood pressure down
08:59I'm not staying up and not sleeping uh I saw stat I thought I saw where u.s dominated possession
09:06like
09:0652 36 or something percent like uh percentage of time like they they had the ball most of the time
09:12you know just didn't go their way even with their backups yeah I mean yeah I can't the
09:19possession thing doesn't mean everything there there there there are teams that frankly just
09:26give up the possession or no am I wrong I think they had more chances I said they had more
09:30chances
09:30they had more possession end up on the wrong side of it playing a bunch of bums I said there
09:34are
09:34definitely things watch that game you'd be encouraged by most notably Pulisic coming in
09:40and looking healthy and fast yeah and looking like a difference maker so how many of the starters
09:46did they the the front line guys besides Pulisic did they put in at the end of the game or
09:53the second
09:53half Freeman came into the game he could only do so many and there might have been one other guy
09:58so like three yeah three maybe four yeah I just like there's no stock in there I mean they lost
10:04playing their back it's like it's like watching a preseason game right and upset yeah it's really
10:09thinking that the in week one of the real season that the team's gonna look like they did in game
10:13three of the preseason yeah ideally though wouldn't you have liked to have won sure all three games
10:18for sure yes but it's a little chick in the armor I'm not stressing about it I'm bored it's about
10:25as
10:25meaningful as it is when when Scotty Brooks didn't win the 50th game you know it doesn't really impact
10:32anything it was is the last game of the group look now you go to work and you get prepped
10:37for
10:38Bosnia next Wednesday that's what you do right you take the game actually seriously because that game
10:42is the biggest you could maybe ever you could maybe make the argument that it helps them because they
10:47got their backup some time and then if they have to they're forced into action and next go around
10:51maybe they won't be as nervous yeah they'd be a little more comfortable they got some touches in
10:55the World Cup and if they come in they might actually play a little better their coach was kind of
11:00pissed after the game he was getting questions about the loss he said the questions are a little
11:05bit weird he was speaking both in Spanish and English said it was a little bit sad that no
11:11reporters congratulated him or the US players for winning the clinching the group right and he said
11:17here's the quote the mood is like we're going home and Turkey is staying I need to remind you and
11:24everyone that we won the group sorry guys we won yeah well that's how he's looking at it the
11:30correctly he's looking at a big picture yeah and I think that's smart yeah all right let's go to
11:35Mike in DC Mike what's up going with the jokes Mike what's up hey there buddy Wes help me out
11:43here
11:43pal Mike Mikey Mike uh dude I'm pressing him if you all right will you find him go find him
11:52Wes
11:52can't get him um do you think it was the right move to play Pulisic I would say no yeah
11:58I probably
11:59wouldn't have played him I wouldn't have played him but I mean they didn't get hurt I was gonna say
12:03what if he really was it a hammy calf calf what if he re-injured the calf yeah that would
12:08have been
12:08brutal and also like missing for the Bosnia game that would have been I can you know sometimes you
12:12see some of these collisions and they're they're benign and these guys are rolling around nothing
12:16happens but sometimes these guys you know they get banged up pretty good and then that could send a
12:21guy like your star out I know every time I see Messi get hit I get a little anxious because
12:27I like
12:27to see Messi rooting for Argentina but I don't want Messi to get knocked out of a game look I
12:33mostly
12:33agree with you that the game was meaningless but it's not completely meaningless if the head coach
12:39is saying an objective of the match was to get Pulisic some action on the field okay well he did
12:46that
12:46then yeah he said after the game said I'm happy got him 30 minutes finished well it was a good
12:50impact
12:51when he was on the pitch yeah I personally didn't think he need that but hey I'm just a dumb
12:55fan
12:56yeah we're not coaching uh team USA soccer I mean I think he could get a lot of that in
13:00practice
13:01but yeah look they thought about it for days they talked about it for days whenever you know the last
13:07the first game right that's the first game when he got hurt it's fine they gotta now they go to
13:13work
13:13get prepped for Wednesday don't worry about last night now now if they lose the next game then the guys
13:18like JP would bring up this argument you will uh you know I guess you'll have some ammunition I
13:24don't think it necessarily means anything but you'll have some ammunition by the same token if they win it
13:28hopefully that just buries it and you don't have to well I think Germany was in the same situation
13:35Germany kind of was stunned by Ecuador yesterday in the group stage finale right they played many of
13:40their starters well that would be a worse situation like I'd rather lose playing my backups because it's
13:47international soccer these guys are in the world cup you lose anybody we've seen that anybody can
13:50lose actually it's better you lost your backups so you can you can rest easy going yeah it kind of
13:56sucks they scored in the last minute but you know we're playing the backups we'll be fine it's
14:03actually probably better I think that I think Germany's in a worse spot if you if you played your
14:09starters and you lost I would feel worse about it even if it was a meaningless game than if you
14:15played your backups and lost if you look well it was a little bit of a different game because it
14:19wasn't a meaningless game for Ecuador but Ecuador for Turkey it was a meaningless game too yeah so
14:23other than pride it's a bad loss for Germany but Ecuador is much better than Turkey yes yeah no doubt
14:30and Ecuador is trying to advance right so they lost to a better team right but still the overall I'd
14:35rather lose my backups than losing my starters yeah I agree oh 100 yeah again you can vote at
14:40junks radio on our junkies poll of the day it looked like it was pretty overwhelming uh so far
14:46which the two options were yes it kills momentum or no it was meaningless because the question is
14:54have they lost momentum after losing to Turkey in a quote-unquote meaningless game where the rest of
14:59most are starters right now uh 17 say yes 83 say no it was meaningless you can vote at junks
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