00:01Now, let us turn our attention to last night.
00:05I didn't know if I was watching USA or Uruguay.
00:09Do we have a rim shot?
00:10I have a couple of these to get off.
00:12Do we have any kind of rim shot sound effect?
00:13Hold on.
00:14I'm going to try this again.
00:16You're going to say Uruguay one again?
00:17I'm going to do all my lines again.
00:19I think it's going to be...
00:21Line them up, because I lost money on everybody.
00:24Do we have a rim shot, Jimmy?
00:25All right.
00:26I didn't know last night if I was watching USA or Uruguay.
00:33I think the USA could have won if they added three days of stoppage time.
00:41You know, I want to nominate Christian Pulisic for the FIFA Peace Prize.
00:45Piece of garbage.
00:50All right.
00:51That's all I got.
00:53I wrote those down this morning.
00:54Actually, I workshopped him on Witty and Appel last night.
01:00They were good.
01:01That was embarrassing.
01:03That was embarrassing.
01:04Yeah.
01:04I had hood guys.
01:06I had homeboys watching that game, and they're texting me like, bro, why are you texting me
01:11about this damn game?
01:12I said, my bad, big homie.
01:13People start...
01:15I think there are plenty of USA fans who really, last night, was their first exposure.
01:20They didn't watch any of the group stage, and maybe didn't watch the first match.
01:23And now, everyone's talking about last night.
01:26And so, it's like, Monday night, you're sitting down with your family, and it was embarrassing.
01:35Embarrassing.
01:35Is it...
01:37But...
01:37Solana, and you're our soccer expert on this show.
01:41I heard you on with Joe earlier.
01:43They are just better players.
01:45Like, all I saw, my infant mind of soccer, they are more talented.
01:50They are more precise with their passes.
01:53They are more precise with their shots.
01:54They are just better players than we have.
01:57It's no coaching.
01:58It's nothing like that.
01:59Their passes were always on point, and we kicked the ball over everybody's head.
02:04Right.
02:05But yesterday, the U.S., it wasn't just that Belgium had more quality on the pitch.
02:09Yesterday, the U.S. looked like an AYSO team playing U-12.
02:12Right.
02:12Why?
02:13Like, the talent gap is not that large.
02:16Why did they look that bad last night?
02:18I don't know if the moment was too big for them.
02:21And I'm talking about the stars, the best players.
02:24Christian Pulisic, Sergino Dest, Weston McKinney, even Flo Balagoon yesterday.
02:29I don't know if the entire...
02:31The red card being rescinded maybe led to some mixed emotions going into the game.
02:38Or I don't know.
02:39I don't know how that impacted them internally.
02:42But what you saw yesterday was a U.S.A. team that, up until that point, proved that they
02:48were ready for that moment.
02:49A rematch against Belgium in the exact same round where they should have won in 2014.
02:57And Chris Wondolowski had one of the worst misses in American sports history in stoppage
03:02time that would have won them the game and put them into the quarterfinal.
03:06They could have shook those demons.
03:09And instead, what you got was a team that once again proved they didn't belong on that
03:14stage.
03:14And I expected not necessarily a win, but a team that looked like they belonged.
03:20And it's not even like Belgium necessarily is the best team at this tournament.
03:25But they looked like the best team at this tournament.
03:27And the U.S. looked like one of the worst teams to advance out of the group stage yesterday.
03:31And Solana, just let me know what Matt Freeze was supposed to do, because I know it's not
03:37what he was supposed to do when he ran out there with their goofball stuff.
03:40No, no.
03:41Yeah.
03:41He's supposed to give it to the other team.
03:42That's exactly what he was supposed to do.
03:43I mean, that honestly looked like amateur hour.
03:47That was amateur hour.
03:47And I mean, I don't know why he pulled back the kick.
03:51He obviously felt something behind him.
03:54But if you're feeling something behind you, to me, that's more reason to get the ball out
03:58of there, hesitated.
03:59And what's surprising there is he did everything perfect until that point.
04:03He was up on his line properly.
04:04In the first 90 seconds of the match was a great save.
04:07Yeah.
04:07Well, I think the second goal was his fault, too.
04:09Nobody's really talking about it.
04:10But I'm talking about on that specific play where he leaves his box.
04:14He intercepts a pass.
04:15He approached it perfectly.
04:17Played it with his chest perfectly.
04:18Passes the defender like he does everything perfect.
04:21And then it's almost like he froze and didn't know what to do.
04:26And any goalkeeper, I know we joke about me being a fourth team all day.
04:30But no joke, I played goalie my entire life.
04:33Basics.
04:34Fundamental goalkeeping.
04:35Get rid of it.
04:35The second you control it, you're putting that ball into the 35th row on the other side
04:40of the stadium.
04:41Right.
04:41Don't even...
04:42If you have any concerns, if you have any concerns of someone being near you, around
04:46you, not knowing where anyone is, just launch it.
04:49Especially in that moment.
04:50Isn't that like a quarterback just getting rid of the ball?
04:52You get rid of it.
04:53You don't mess with it.
04:54You don't even consider the possibility of you turning it over because it's fine.
04:59You just get rid of that play.
05:00And that dangerous opportunity goes away in an instant.
05:03And it looked like he tried to stop the ball once he got by the Belgian player and then
05:09was going to make a decision, second-guessed himself, and he froze.
05:13And then he just whiffed on the ball because he got nervous.
05:16Which, again, that is like rudimentary stuff.
05:19He looked like a goalkeeper that should not have been in that position in that play.
05:24Should not have been on the field for that play.
05:29If I could tell that wasn't what it's supposed to look like, it's obvious that he messed up
05:34pretty bad.
05:36Embarrassing, man.
05:37Embarrassing.
05:37To lose like that because even in that second half, they make the sub, Sergino Desk comes
05:42on, and they put in Gio Reyna.
05:44The first, I want to say, eight to ten minutes of that second half, I'm not saying the U.S.
05:48was dominant by any stretch of the means, but they look like a team that was going to have
05:52a chance to equalize.
05:53They look like a team that was pressing forward again and that was getting back to their identity
05:57a little bit with just more presence in the midfield with Gio Reyna.
06:01And then Christian Pulisic kicks the opposing player.
06:04He's out with an injury.
06:05And while your goalkeeper is just giving away a goal, your substitutes, and I don't mean
06:12this to demean the U.S., but your substitutes to change the course of the game down two
06:16goals with 30 minutes left to go are Berhalter and Lukaku is coming in for Belgium.
06:24Like, it's just, it's a different...
06:25There's a talent gap there.
06:26It's a different...
06:27There's a talent gap there.
06:29It's totally different.
06:29But like you said, even with the talent gap, USA looked like a team that we did not see
06:34this entire tournament.
06:35At all.
06:36No.
06:36At all.
06:37The moment was too big.
06:38Was the moment too big?
06:41Yeah.
06:42It's hard to...
06:42Pochettino didn't have him ready.
06:44Your thoughts?
06:46305-776.
06:47What's our number?
06:47Hey, man.
06:48I like Lukaku, whatever his name is.
06:51He came in there balling.
06:54Yeah, you can't argue that the moment wasn't too big for them because look how they played.
06:58Like, they just played absolutely awful.
07:00For those of you watching on the YouTube stream who think I'm wearing a Cinnabon shirt, I'm
07:04not.
07:07Cinnabon.
07:10Cinnabon shirt.
07:11Solana gave me that a few months ago and I forgot I had it.
07:14And then I saw it in the closet today and I was like, I bet we get a Braun decision
07:17today.
07:17I'm going to wear my Cinnabon shirt.
07:19No, no.
07:20He's going to wait.
07:21He's going to wait.
