Mike Ryan

Balogun showed his class, but I think the rest of the U.S.

men's national team made his life easy.

The back line didn't really get tested.

Everybody looked incredibly fast.

That was the one thing that really jumped off the screen.

And I think in the second half, we all saw that energy naturally died down.

The pace last night that the U.S.

men's national team played with was unreal.

It was like Russia 2018.

They looked juice to the gills, quite honestly.

It was insane, the effort and the passion that they played with.

I want to get into this match with all of you in the comments.

Comments lighting up right now as we are live.

But I want to bring in my good friend, Nate Bucati.

Now, if you watch MOS, you know this man's voice is also a voice on SiriusXM, and he's got a brand new book out.

He's a caretaker of the sport in Kansas City, which is the American heartland and the heartbeat of soccer.

His new book, Perfect Pitch, How Kansas City Became the Heart of American Soccer and Landed the World Cup.

Nate, I've known you for several years.

You are always the optimist when it comes to the U.S.

men's national team.