Futbol Americas: Brenden Aaronson Breaks Through
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Happy Thursday to you all. I wanted to say Monday. It's because it's our first show of 2026. Casey Keller, Hercules Gomez, Christina Alexander with you. We are officially in 2026. A World Cup year cannot sound better. The question will be a little bit later. Is USMNT dripping with their leaked kit? You're dripping today with this little number.
A little Malik Tillman kit. It's Byron Leverkusen. It's a... decaf by our Leverkusen these days. It's not the same Leverkusen. Decaf. Yeah. They made a lot of sales. A lot of sales. The same Leverkusen of old, but still, their kits are very nice. Can we still say Happy New Year? What's the cutoff? I'm looking for Larry David. Is it the 6th or the 7th? Is it January 7th? January 7th? Today's 8th. Today's 8th.
The producer says January 7th. You're a week out. Yep. You had a week. You had a week to wish everybody. Happy New Year. But it is the first episode back. It's exactly what I was going to say. It's fine. We can do whatever we want on the show on Football Americas. Right, Producer? A little bit more to break down here on Football Americas. Like I mentioned, the kid and, of course, a little Simone Vinicius Jr. exchange. Doesn't hurt anybody, at least us. It's very entertaining. Let's get to what we saw here in the last 24 hours with Brendan Aronson, too. Like I said, it's a 2026 World Cup year and every second counts. And boy, is Brendan Aronson doing just that for Leeds United. Had a brace yesterday and a heartbreak loss, a 4-3 to Newcastle.
It's the second match in a row with a goal and it was a standout performance case by him. Well, I mean, it's always important whenever at this stage, when you're in that final six months, you're always trying to prove something. You're always showing the manager. You know, look, Brendan's really, I think, fought back from, you know, coming back to Leeds after he left when they got relegated. It upset a lot of the fans. It was always going to be difficult. He came back into the championship, helped the team get promoted. And it's... It's been difficult for him to win the fans back over, but all you can do. And a DK for you here? Speaking of heartbreak. All you can do is... We'll get to it in just a second.
Here's Brendan after this one. Brendan, a heartbreaking way to lose the game. How do you view the whole thing?
Yeah I mean of course I'm devastated you know I mean it's annoying when you score two and then you know I feel like mentally maybe I turned off for a moment but I know I can't lift my hand like this around the box and yeah I did it but I mean listen I mean it's football at the end of the day and of course I'm mad at myself but I think we could have done better defending on a couple occasions I think we're in a little bit of a situation where when we score we're kind of giving up a goal not too long after so I think we need to change that and we'll look at that but I mean to come here and to go up three times in a row and you know almost tie and win the game it shows how good this team is we need to just keep going from here.
Is that the real frustrating thing? You seem to start the game so well, but as you say, when you got on top and got in those positions, you weren't able to see the pressure out, as it were?
I think in this league, if you take five minutes off, the other team is so good that they score. I think that's kind of the moment that we're in. I think we absorb a little bit too much in moments where we kind of take our foot off the gas. We're not pressing as much. So I think maybe we can fix that a little bit. But I mean, listen, the way that we're playing at the moment, not to come here and to almost win and tie the game is unbelievable. And we just need to keep going from here and keep doing the quality and not let this bring us down. You know, we have a FA Cup game on the weekend and then right back into the league at home. So we'll be looking for the next one.
Yeah, as he said, he was devastated, but at least with what we've seen as of late from Brendan Aronson, it's been impressive in his last four matches here, scoring three goals.
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