Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros of The Cooligans give USMNT head coach Mauricio Pochettino a grade after the United States 5-2 loss to Belgium. Check out the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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L- let’s, let’s give Pochettino a grade.
P- please in the chat, go for it, let us know what you think, h- how he did.
You want to give a letter grade- I- or you wanna give a score?
I’ll let you decide.
Like a play- like players.
Yeah, yeah.
Let’s have a one to 10.
Overall or just this game?
Oh, th- just this game, just this game.
Just this game, I’m gonna say it was a 7.5.
7?
Yeah.
The reason it gets a seven is because I think the first 30 minutes was so impressive against a team like Belgium.
I was like, man, he really got this team put together.
After that, it collapsed.
We did get a goal back.
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I don’t really care so much about that, but he made a lot of changes and at that point he’s just trying stuff.
He just wants to see what these players can do.
It’s, but so- If anyone can be a game changer okay.
I, I d- I agree that that’s what he did, but the I, I didn’t enjoy the, I, I felt like I saw d- drastically less effort and heart in that, in especially that, the beginning of that second half, those first, I don’t know, 30 minutes of that second half.
so I’m gonna, I’m gonna go with like, I’m gonna go with 4.8 because- Damn I did not love- Is that half of mine?
I’m gonna go with, the, just the fact that I, I, like I mentioned earlier, like, I didn’t love the body language.
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I didn’t love the- What, do you work for L’Equipe?
This 4.8 is tough.
Yeah, but seven is cr- what, 7.5 you said?
Five, but you could’ve said five.
Way too high.
You could’ve said six.
Bro, I’m just, I, I, I’m, I’m I wanna throw in the four in there just to show I’m s- Damn I mean business, okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I’m the tough one.
Okay.
The, it, it, it- Someone said, “Alexis is smoking crack.”
You see?
There must be c- crack in this studio.
I don’t know how it got in here.
Damn.
yeah.
Th- this is a, Oh, Ben Skolnick said, “Alexis is using the Dave Portnoy pizza scale of scoring.”
How dare you disrespect him like that?
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That’s a- How dare you?
Ben- That’s the one way to offend Alexis, I promise.
I j- I just, very quickly, Ben Skolnick did say something, and this is important.
“Fun fact, the last win Blangola had in international competition was Belaguay.”
Which is I mean- Shout out we all remember, it was iconic.
Salud all my Blangolans out there, yo.
You gotta be a, a Cooligans OG- Yeah to know about Blangola.
You gotta listen to some old episodes, join the Patreon, do whatever you gotta do.
so- Pete Morton said, “The Cooligans may have to start a urinalysis program.”
I think, I don’t think, I don’t, I don’t wanna, maybe 7.6 is a little bit too much.
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4.8’s way too harsh.
I don’t think it was good, but you gotta give credit to the first 30 minutes.
I don’t love, and somebody said this, I forget who, so I apologize, for forgetting who, but they said, “Tim Weah right back is not the Tim Weah I wanna see.”
And as much as I have confidence that Tim Weah could play that role if he was asked to be a right wing back, asking him to be a right back, you need that wing part, bro.
This is too much.
I think it’s just too much for him, not to say that he doesn’t have the skill set to do it.
It’s just not the best version of Tim Weah we’re gonna get.