Taylor Twellman

This isn't Cristiano Ronaldo.

He's different.

And I don't know if the emotional...

side of winning the 2022 world cup.

He wants that to be his final taste.

I will be shocked if he doesn't play in the world cup, but there's 2% of me that thinks he may just want no emotional heartbreak of not winning 26 world cup and then him retiring from Argentina.

So there is 2% of me that sits there and says, he may say, you know what?

I don't want to do that because the last world cup I played in, I won.

The alarm bells are not ringing, but I'm cautionally waving a little bit of a white flag because I'm confused at why –

We changed the system for those two games.

It's the last two games before he has to name the roster.

But I want your listeners to understand, when it comes to soccer friendlies internationally, you are allowed more subs than a competitive game, World Cup qualifying or in a tournament.

And why do I say that?

The scoreline cannot be indicative of how the game went because if you make eight subs, Tony...

You change the complexion of the game.

That essentially means 16 different players come into the game.

So both first halves against Belgium and Portugal, the United States were okay.

They just didn't score a goal, but they created more chances than their opposition.

And it raises the question for the World Cup.

When you get your chances, do you take them?