USMNT: US lose to Canada at home for 1st time in more than 60 years | Morning Footy

he only had five touches, it goes hand in hand. The midfield got overrun because, you know what? You knew Jesse Marschs Canada side were going to play high press. It's in Jesse's DNA with Red bull's philosophy. He said, okay, we're going to play. We're going to high press. But you know what? We're going to wait for that high press. We're not just going to run crazy and give you all these calculated. It was very calculated. Yunus Musah and Johnny Cardozo were extremely poor in the day at Yunus Musah gave up a bunch of balls in his own defensive third, in the middle third. That didn't necessarily result in a goal. Johnny Cardozo, however, gave that ball what we saw, and then it resulted in Halberg's goal to start the game. Ream and Richards were very poor. Ream held on to the ball for way too long, and Canada said, okay, we'll allow you to sit on the ball. Well, you wait, you wait, you wait. Next thing you know, we take away all your options and it's a giveaway. And he gives away the second, second goal. And that's where Jonathan David pickpockets him and he ends up scoring, you're looking at this game and I'd say 90% of the players were extremely poor. Tim I'd say Malik Tillman, who played 62 minutes, was one of the bright spots. And to say it's a bright spot is were you surprised to see him in starting 11? I was surprised because he hasn't done it for the US men's national team now. He has played consistently at the club level and he's done well. But it's PSV and they roll over everybody. But ultimately he looked the best of that starting 11 and then loomed in the second half. Played much better. Very adventurous first half. But Joe Scally again 77 touches I'd say 75 of them were backwards. What I'm about to say maybe doesn't hold as much water because we're in a caretaker moment. Again, we're in an interim moment. I think I forgot who it was that tweeted out that 50% of the matches since the World Cup have been under interim managers for the US men's national team, which is an issue that clearly needs to be resolved 50% 50% of the matches. Since the World Cup have been under interim manager. Obviously, BJ Callahan, and now this that for what I'm looking at, if we don't have as a nation, if we don't have Sergino Dest fit, if we don't have Tyler Adams fit and you don't have Anthony Robbins or Jedi Jedi Robinson in the match, if you don't have those three, you cannot play the style that is trying to be played. It's seemingly you can't overrun the midfield, you can't create the space you want, you can't play out of the back and maybe it's because you're in an interim manager where you're not going to sit there. Now make tactical changes. I'll let you explain that to me. Okay It seems like we're in this holding pattern where it just we are. We are. Makes us look even worse than we actually can potentially play. And you're spot on. So one, the head coach for this game, Mike Kouvaris. He's in an in over his head. He doesn't have the quality to coach this group yet. That's one. So then he's taking the same tactics in which he learned from Gregg Berhalter. And trying to implement them. And maybe he makes some little twists and, make little changes here and there. But ultimately it's not good enough. So he's not good enough. The quality on the pitch is not good enough. And then the intensity, all the intangibles that you're supposed to have that you don't need teaching. You're playing for America. You're playing on American soil against Canada, against a coach who wanted to be the US men's national team head coach, didn't get the job. And then he's talking trash about these same players saying, hey, guess what you guys are all hypocrites. You said you didn't want me because you wanted to stick with Gregg, because you got XYZ. And then next thing you know, things didn't go your way. And now Gregg has got to go. You guys are hypocrites before the game and you still don't come out with that fire against Canada. Who says who's kind of been chipping away at you in World Cup qualifying. They had the better of you. You came back and the Nations League, you said, hey, we're the top dogs. You win two zero. And now Canada comes back with Jesse Marshall at the helm and beats you handily at home. They absolutely played played us off the Park and it's not that they played beautiful football but they they put a lot of pressure on us and we had no answers. So it was so ugly. It was underwhelming. The energy was bad. Me at home watching this game with my kids, I was I was, I was hurt, I was disappointed. It was all the above because you're sitting there and you're saying, I know these guys can give more. So I know they can get. Now the coaching is as bad as it is. You're not making the right adjustments. And that was to be expected. But at the bare minimum, if you give 100% and the commitment is there, this Canada team is not good enough to beat you. How much of this though, and that performance that you're alluding to of not giving enough because we know that they are capable. How much is that down to the fact that we are in this weird interim limbo stage? Yeah, it's a purgatory. Well, we asked we asked, are they good with before the Nations League? Right. It's strange because this is a friendly. So it's not there's not like these these a lot on the line implications. So we asked this game more on the line than a typical family because of this was more important to Jesse Marsch in Canada. We said that than it was for the U.S. And a and a win would mean more for Canada than it would for the U.S. Having said that, not like it's an excuse or anything. We asked on this show about a week ago, are they going to take this camp seriously and given all the bulletin board material, given the personality or the lack of personality in their performance on Saturday, and the way that the coaching was done, the way that the players came out, excuse me? It it felt like it wasn't serious. It felt like this wasn't at the height of a of a national team. The way that this was all taken on headfirst, they didn't tackle it. The whole assignment of the weekend like that. It wasn't national team level football, was it? National team level mindset. It wasn't. And you know, one thing that that stands out to me from and, you know, full disclosure, I didn't get a chance to watch the match. But I've watched enough of the highlights and the reviews. One thing that stood out to me in some of the breakdowns that I saw was it seemingly Canada would come out and be quite aggressive and quite chippy with some of our players in particular. Christen Pulisic was getting knocked down and I didn't see anyone kind of equalize a little bit for the U.S. when you played, if someone was getting a little rough with you, there were some goons on that team that would stand up and say, we're not going to, we're not going to take that. And I think that points to the intensity, the lack of the lack of it looked like they were going through the motions. It looked like they were there because they had to. There was no obligation from a management perspective. There was no obligation. Pochettino wasn't watching from a sporting perspective, but not even that, because the coach wasn't even signed yet. Like there was. It felt like there were no ramifications if you won, if you lost, if you tied. So you're saying they hit the autopilot button, but was it not evident they slept, walked through? Was it not evident 100%, 100%. And Mikey Vera did absolutely nothing to boost his stock in any way. So you look down because people will say, well, it doesn't matter who the coach was, because the quality wasn't good and the intensity wasn't. Yes. I mean, no matter who's on the sidelines, if you're playing like that, you're playing like that. It's terrible. But at the same time, the coaching was not it didn't help in any way. So but what are you going to do? When I look at the whole thing, it's a massive disappointment. That's just what it is. It's a shame. It's a shame really. Where we are right now. It's a wasted opportunity. It is bad because then you go into a bigger, deeper dive and you say, how many of these guys are starters on their clubs and contributing at their clubs and being and having a big role on their clubs? How many? Yeah, I see what you're saying. And it's but how how much did we think we were going to if there was any positives to get from this. It was going to be a tangible positive. That was going to be a building block for the future with with an interim coach. And that's the difficult part. Like how do you motivate a team that you know that this team is pretty simple. There's on Tuesday, it's pretty simple. You say legit if you want. If I'm the interim manager, I'm not going to be here. I can tell you that. All right. Now you all could be here. What I'm saying you couldn't be here. What they said about us, did they hear what they said about you? That's motivation. I mean, why wasn't that enough to do you want to play in the World Cup on home soil? Yes or no? Do you want a coach who's an American coach who's coaching Canada, who's not even going to sing the national anthem, who just talked trash about you guys? Are you going to are you going to rise to the level and show him who you are? Show the country who you are so everyone can get excited for the World Cup? Yeah. Yes or no? Yep. Do you want to be here or you don't? And if you don't, I'll take you off before even the first half make. If you're an interim coach, control what you can control. Yeah Agree. Seemingly there's also a lot of pressure on U.S. soccer right now to fix this one. Get this guy that we've been hearing about over the next 48 hours. He's going to sign. I've heard that for the last 2 to 3 weeks. Get him. Go take your private jet to Barcelona. Get the deal done today. Get it done. You have today as the patch day. The other day. And Chuck, I had tomorrow. Yeah I think I had like six days ago, the other thing. Oh you owe $10 already. Yeah. I'll put my $10 in. The next thing is figuring out what happened. The stands were empty. Yeah that's this is Kansas City. This is where you would expect there's