World Football Talk

The Reactapod is back! Making a fresh reappearance in this rare scenario is talk about the U.S. Men's National Team. In case you missed it, they lost to Canada. Yeah, I know what you're thinking: how can they let this happen?

We take a look at how the game transpired, go player-by-player and give our individual ratings for the entire team, talk about Gregg Berhalter and his system and the implications of it on the team. We also give some credit to Canada, as they deserve every bit of it.

This episode is focused, raw, and let's be honest, it gets a little ugly. Enjoy some more of this over @WFT_Podcast on Twitter!

We are back and we are more miserable than ever, well one of us is. Let's just get this out of the way: Manchester United lost. Shocking, I know. Thomas is miserable.

Let's talk about that. Is Ole losing the wheel? Will sacking and replacing him actually change anything. Is Man U hurtling towards a fate not dissimilar to Milan? We know Thomas has feelings about that.

We also talk about Decision Day in MLS and how Carlos Vela and LAFC smashed a few records heading into the Playoffs.

Finally, let's talk about the USMNT. Let's try to be rational, shall we? Should we expect to see guys like Yedlin? What are we looking for in this set of games against Cuba and Canada.

Always stick to @WFT_Podcast for more from us in this glorious international window.

WE ARE BACK!

Finally, Thomas is mostly 100%, so that means we will hopefully be returning to a fully 100% schedule!

We start of this episode hitting some big items from the Premier League last weekend, including Manchester United, Christian Pulisic, and some truly questionable goalkeeping.

We then kick it over to The Best Awards, since we haven't had a chance to properly rant about this year. It's our other tradition, so we had to go over the results. About 30% less rant than usual, some props to the winners, and of course we need to talk about the World XI.

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We're back! So a weird confluence of events happened.

The international break deterred us (mainly Ryan) from doing an episode, but we still wanted to recap the action before the club scene picked up again.

However, a day before recording, Thomas got sick. Pretty sick. After going day-to-day for much of the last week, we've decided that my voice isn't horrific enough to the human ear that I can tag along to an episode anchored by Ryan.

That's right folks, Ryan's coming out party is finally here!

Breaking down the big results in the Premier League, then pivoting to the Champions League where it was an extremely eventful Matchday 1.

Again, apologies for the LONG journey without an episode.

Lots of good discussion to be had as there were interesting tidbits in the Premier League. Arsenal and Liverpool played in the marquee match, but it was VAR that took the spotlight once again. There were three decisions in the Manchester United and Tottenham game that grabbed the narrative and the headlines.

While we are talking about VAR, let's talk about its ineffectiveness in Serie A during the Milan game. We're still in favor of it.

We cap off with MLS Rivalry Week and Carlos Vela. He started the week sending multiple Quakes to the Shadow Realm and it ended with an exciting El Trafico. Goals, drama, celebrations, excitement. Unpack it all in a new World Football Talk.

We decide to break out the Panic Meter on some teams around the world. We are 1-2 weeks into the new season, but that doesn't stop us from feeling a little panicked about some teams.

We, of course, of course start off in England with Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal (yeah, that's right) and Newcastle. Then, based on initial results, Barcelona and PSG had rough starts to the season.

Where will the panic meter fall?

Nice and simple to start off the 2019/20 Premier League season. We take a look at the biggest moments from Matchday 1, including a battle of own goals, VAR "controversy" in London involving Manchester City, and the team that impressed us most to start the season.

Oh yeah, we had to talk about the first World Football Talk Derby of the season. I had to take it easy on Ryan unfortunately.

It's that time of the year, but we start off a little differently than usual. Alejandro Bedoya made a statement in the DC United vs Philadelphia game in MLS after he scored on Sunday night and called out for change following the recent acts of gun violence in America. We discuss this choice and how it has resonated around the soccer world in the United States.

We then shift back to our 3rd Annual Premier League Predictions. 3rd time's the charm for Thomas, right? Who is winning the league? Did Thomas go with United again? Will Ryan believe in the loan army for Chelsea? Is Sheffield United an actual Premier League team?

Will Moise Kean and Patrick Cutrone lead the Italian Striker Revolution? Yes. The answer is yes.

Between the New York Derby and El Trafico, there were plenty of crucial moments to talk about. At Red Bull Arena, the red side of New York took a controversial throw-in that was initially called a corner and capitalized for the win.

In Carson, Zlatan Ibrahimovic talked a lot of smack leading up to the 4th El Trafico. He certainly backed it up.

We didn't think we'd have enough to go on, but ultimately the transfer news rounded out the episode nicely. We even went longer than usual.

A dynasty has been formed! The U.S. Women's National Team won back-to-back World Cup titles to bring their haul to 4. We take a deep look at the Final and how this is going to impact the women's game internationally and even at club level. Support your local women's team!

We then take a look at the Gold Cup Final between USA vs Mexico and the Copa America semifinal shenanigans with Leo Messi and Argentina.

We move to the further shenanigans of Antoine Griezmann, Neymar and Paul Pogba and more!

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