{"id":233762,"date":"2025-07-03T04:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233762\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T04:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:20:15","slug":"usmnt-survive-again-diego-lunas-brace-lifts-usa-to-victory-and-gold-cup-final-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233762\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT Survive Again! Diego Luna\u2019s brace lifts USA to victory and Gold Cup Final berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Subscribe to The Cooligans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros react to the USMNT\u2019s shaky semifinal win over Guatemala. The boys talk Diego Luna, who impressed once again, scoring both goals for the Stars and Stripes. They also break down another lackluster performance from young striker Patrick Agyemang<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Christian and Alexis then chat Matt Freese\u2019s performance in goal and whether it raised or lowered his stock. They also give us their USMNT confidence level ahead of an important final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Christian and Alexis preview the Final and give us their thoughts on the USMNT\u2019s Gold Cup performance so far.<\/p>\n<p>(0:00) &#8211; Match recap<\/p>\n<p>(5:00) &#8211; Player of the Game: Diego Luna<\/p>\n<p>(13:00) &#8211; Breaking down Patrick Agyemang\u2019s lackluster performance<\/p>\n<p>(24:00) &#8211; Matt Freese: Stock up or stock down?<\/p>\n<p>(30:00) &#8211; USMNT confidence meter update<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Kyle Rivas\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/f1438e90-57bc-11f0-be7f-86709031dac1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Rivas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udda5\ufe0f <\/strong><a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/PO1yBjfwkPE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch this full episode on YouTube;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Watch this full episode on YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at <\/strong><a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj<\/strong><\/a><strong> or at <\/strong><a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/podcasts\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yahoo Sports Podcasts;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Yahoo Sports Podcasts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to The Cooligans Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros react to the USMNT\u2019s shaky semifinal win over Guatemala.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[91609,91612,25858,91610,91611,49,978,659,46399],"class_list":{"0":"post-233762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-alexis-guerreros","9":"tag-christian-polanco","10":"tag-diego-luna","11":"tag-lackluster-performance","12":"tag-matt-freese","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa","16":"tag-usmnt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114787387815512741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}