00:00His entire World Cup was brutal. We could talk about his leadership. He was the captain,
00:05Captain America, which I kind of roll my eyes at. Hearing the injury news today,
00:11does that change any perspective on Pulisic and what happened on Monday or in total on the World
00:18Cup? Not really. I think his performance was pretty bad. And he just picked the worst time
00:22to do it. I mean, I think when you look at the year that he's had, right? Everybody was saying
00:27he took a break. He elected to pass on the Gold Cup and rest was the word that he used
00:34then. And
00:34he's using that now. And he's got people like Landon Donovan taking shots at him, which I don't
00:38appreciate, by the way. Landon Donovan took a hiatus and decided to go to Cambodia. So he doesn't get
00:43to talk about this. Pulisic's situation coming in wasn't good to start with. And we were kind of
00:47hoping that he would rest up and be ready. And he showed that in the first half against Paraguay
00:53and then immediately takes a knock that is not a not a bad one. We looked at it as luck
01:00that,
01:01well, OK, we don't need him against Australia. But it's going to the narrative is going to
01:05continue that he's soft, that he's not a good leader. And then in the big moments, he doesn't
01:10show up. All the facts are working against him right now. You know, this is a guy that I still
01:15have a high opinion of. To be honest, he doesn't like the spotlight. He shouldn't be called a superstar.
01:19He doesn't want to be a superstar. He just wants to be a guy in a team that that can
01:25help when he
01:26can. And, you know, part of the argument here is, you know, some guys feel like they're always a
01:31shoe and they have to start. He's he's such an important guy. Maybe he wasn't the guy to start
01:36in this game. Maybe this was an opportunity for Pochettino. It's easy. You know, hindsight being
01:412020 to make these kind of assumptions. But only they know from the inside. But if they were putting
01:46him on the field on the assumption that he was going to be one of our best players,
01:51obviously, they got that one wrong.
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