Brazil shocked in scoreless draw, Italy survives group stage, Spain cruises on

This episode analyzes the outcomes and implications of major soccer matches during international tournaments.

1. Italy's late goal against Croatia was crucial for their advancement, demonstrating the unpredictability and excitement of tournament soccer.
2. Spain remains a strong contender, showing depth and tactical consistency even with numerous lineup changes.
3. Brazil's scoreless draw with Costa Rica was a major upset, underscoring issues in converting possession and chances into goals.
4. The episode highlights the importance of tactical soundness and the ability to adapt to tournament pressures.
5. Discussions also touch on potential career milestones and transitions for players like Luka Modric, reflecting on the personal stakes at play in international tournaments.

1: Introduction

Hosts introduce the episode’s theme and mention the sponsor, Zillow. Alexi Lawless: "Welcome to the State of the Union podcast, where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field."

2: Match Reviews

Detailed analysis of the day’s games, including Italy's dramatic draw and Spain's victory. David Mossey: "Ferran Torres, who came in, gets the goal, and Spain have not conceded yet in this tournament."

3: Brazil vs. Costa Rica

In-depth discussion on Brazil's surprising draw with Costa Rica, analyzing tactical errors and player performances. Alexi Lawless: "Brazil had 75% of the possession and like, 20 chances."

4: Closing Thoughts

Reflections on the day's events and a preview of upcoming matches. David Mossey: "We'll see about Paraguay, but I think Hendrick should start to address midfield issues."

1. For soccer enthusiasts and coaches: Analyze how top teams adapt their strategies in tournament scenarios to improve team resilience and flexibility.
2. Players can study game footage to understand spatial awareness and positioning in high-pressure situations.
3. Emphasize consistency and mental toughness during training to prepare for unexpected challenges during games.
4. Fans and analysts should consider both tactical execution and psychological aspects when assessing team performances.
5. Developing a deeper understanding of referee decisions and their impact can enrich viewers’ appreciation of the game.

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse breakdown more games from Euro 2024 matchday 3. In group B, Italy clinched the knockout round on a last minute goal against Croatia. Spain continued their win streak and has yet to concede a goal in the tournament. Finally, the guys discussed the shocking result in Copa América. Brazil was stunned by Costa Rica, splitting the points in their opening match. Mosse remained calm on the result, though this was not the outcome he hoped for. (1:44)
To wrap the show, Alexi and Mosse share all the details on their set for the live show. Tune into the pod daily for more Euro and Copa América content. (23:41)

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Alexi Lawless
Hello, sunshine. I'm Alexi Lawless, and welcome to the State of the Union podcast, where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white and blue colored glasses. Today's show is brought to you by Zillow agents tours loans homes get home with Zillow. We are coming to you live Monday, June 24, following our 11th day of the 2020 €4 and our fifth day of the 2024, Copa America. As we make our way through this amazing summer of soccer.

Reminder, we'll be coming to you live after each and every day of euro action and Copa America action, giving you a wrap up and a preview of what is to come. But first, joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding lights, David Mossey, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire. How can I ask you this? Oh, I can't ask it any other way. How are you, Mossy?

David Mossey
I'm doing okay. And do my eyes deceive me? Do we have a little bit of an audience today? Do I see Nick Rago there? Fran Arthur?

I saw kat earlier, but she seems to have left. Some of the mucky mucks have decided to drop in and just, you know, they're just off camera up there. I can feel their eyes just blaring down, glaring down on me and you. So let's, let's make sure we, we do a good show here. Okay?

Alexi Lawless
All right, you ready to light this candle? Let's do it. All right, because we got to get to it. And we're not going to bury the lead. Well, we're going to bury it a little bit, but.

All right, games today in euros, Croatia, one, Italy won. Albania, zero. Spain won. And in Copa America, Colombia, two. And Paraguay, one.

Brazil, zero. Costa Rica, zero. All right, let's push Brazil to the last thing that we discussed. And we're not going to shortchange the other games, but we're going to get to Brazil as quickly as we possibly can because I think that's a big story happening today. All right, today, Italy.

For those of you watching our coverage on television, you'll know that the great Giorgio chiellini is part of our coverage, a very, very happy Giorgio Chalini. But Italy left it late. And I think if you had asked Giorgio with two minutes to go in the game, what was going on, he would have absolutely told you that it is done over and dusted. But Italy conjures up not just a goal, but an all important point to send Italy into the round of 16 as opposed to, for all intents and purposes, going home the defending champions. I thought it was an amazing moment.

Tournaments have these amazing moments. I thought it was wonderful to see. I'm still not sold on Italy as a good team, but the tournament is better from a, I think a soccer perspective. The tournament is certainly better from a Fox perspective to have a big team like Italy continue on in general. Thoughts, Mossy?

David Mossey
Incredible drama in the second half. You have Modric denied from the penalty spot by Donnaruma and then moments later he scores. And, you know, Stu Holden is constantly texting us reactions to these games and he managed to sneak in a text in the 30 seconds or so in between the penalty miss and the goal to lament the fact that Modric was going to be the goat, but then he scores the goal. So then it appeared like Modric was going to be the hero. Kind of a storybook thing with him sending Quraisha through, but then Matias a Cani in the 8th minute of stoppage time.

So Italy advance, much to the delight of Giorgio Celini. And now Croatia are the team that's for all intents and purposes, out. Not officially, but they are going to go out. But they are going to go out. Italy is going to go on the eight minutes of stoppage.

Alexi Lawless
Are you okay with it? I thought it was a bit excessive. I know we had that VAR review, but nevertheless. I know. I mean, if you're Croatia, play it out.

Speaking of Croatia, is this the last we see of Luka Modric? I think so. He gave kind of a vague interview afterwards where he intimated it could be it for him, but he didn't come out and say it. But 38 years old, I don't see him sticking around much longer. Really.

I don't know, I just. I feel like he's still got a little in him and, you know, it certainly wasn't his fault. And I love the fact that he was able to make up for it seconds after he, to Stu's point, was going to be looked at as the goat. Not the goat in the good goat, but the bad goat. What a save by Livakovich on that Bastoni header in the first half.

Incredible. I mean, and Donna Roma, to be fair, was also very good. This was a great goalkeeping duel for sure. I mean. Okay, well, congratulations to Giorgio Chalini and his italian team going on through.

Bravo, Forza. Okay, the other game, Albania. Spain, to be fair to Albania, they put up a good fight, but ultimately Spain got the goal they needed, withstood the storm that Albania brought and a result that I don't think surprised anybody. Spain flexed their depths today. They made ten changes to their lineup and still won.

David Mossey
Ferran Torres, one of the players that came in, gets the goal and Spain have not conceded yet in this tournament, three wins out of three, so they've certainly been the most impressive so far. Are they number one in your power rankings? No, Germany is still number one in my power rankings. When it comes to the. Yeah, when it comes to euros, yeah, Germany is still number one.

Alexi Lawless
And it's not that I'm not buying Spain, but I just am buying Germany a little bit more. I saw you unveiled a combined power ranking today and some people were confused by it. What do you mean? I didn't think it was that confusing. Well, you have separate power rankings for each competition and then a combined one, and you have team a above team b in their individual power rankings, but then team b above team a when you combine everything.

David Mossey
So everybody was baffled by that. Well, you can certainly find it, and I reposted it and everything like that. And if you want to sit down with me at some point in the future, I will explain how something like that. It's too complicated to explain them. You know, especially for a lot of you little brains out there, it's very, very difficult.

Alexi Lawless
So what I'll do is I'll go home, I'll write out maybe a couple of sentences using very small words that are very clear so that everybody can understand that. But I'm telling you right now, it can happen and it does make sense. I just have to explain it to people. All right, so congratulations to Spain. They continue on at this point.

Now, when it comes to the euros in the round of 16, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, France and England are all going through. Yeah. What happened today is with two groups done, we established a baseline for those third place teams, so anybody who's at four points and is guaranteed to finish in the top three of their group has qualified. That's how England, France and the Netherlands got in today. All right, so let's move it over to Copa America.

We just got off the air with another day of Copa America and a really interesting day. Let's start with Columbia two, Paraguay one. We came on the air talking about how good Colombia is and they are good, how elite they are right now. We also talked about the history of great colombian generations and eras. You go back to the 1990s and the Valderrama esque era, and then.

And then there's a dip, even missing World Cups. And then they come back and Hamas bursts on the scene in the early 2000 teens and then there's a dip and now we're back here. And I think there's a lot of fair excitement and positivity surrounding this team for what they are. But I'll tell you what, Mossi, I was not impressed with them in this game. And maybe that's because Paraguay decided in the second half to actually play soccer.

We've seen this a couple of times now already in this tournament, where it's almost as if people are mesmerized in the first half and then second half they say, well, we can actually play. And then they come out and play good second halfs. And Paraguay not only got the goal, but I thought they played a much better second half. And they probably go back in the locker room and say, well, why the hell weren't we doing that from the beginning? Whistle yeah, Panama, Uruguay was another example of that.

David Mossey
I agree with you. Colombia were not overly impressive in this game. Nevertheless, it's now unbeaten in 24 and nine straight victories. So they are rolling. The two goal scorers today both play for Crystal Palace, Daniel Munoz and Jefferson Lerma, both assisted by James Rodriguez, who's a little bit like the Shaqiri of the Copa America in that he's wallowing on the bench at Sao Paulo in Brazil and yet at the international level still can produced like it did today.

Alexi Lawless
Yeah, and I asked Juan Pablo angel about that off air and then we talked about it actually on air about. Because we have done a couple of segments about this phenomenon. And, you know, for those that have listened and watched over the years, you know, I say form is fallacy and it certainly can happen. So there is obviously something that happens to Hamez when he puts on that jersey and represents this country that he loves. He feels warmth.

Warmth, he feels love and it, it translates into just a different type of player. And you probably can't explain it, but it's a good thing if you are a Columbia fan. You know, when I was walking up here to do the show, I crossed paths with Melissa Ortiz and she gave me a very smug how you doing? Really? Because Columbia are now on top of group D.

David Mossey
And sure, she's feeling pretty good about herself. Yeah, I'm sure she. I'm sure she was. Have you crossed paths yet with Juan Pablo? And hell, I have not.

Alexi Lawless
I know he was up here doing digital on the show that shall not be named. It was. He. I mean, he is gorgeous. He is.

Rob Stone made a point on the air of explaining to everybody and it was kind of preemptive because you can get lost in the eyes. And I worry that Rob's going to throw to me on something, and I will be mesmerized in the stare and the gaze. If you could combine his looks and stir, just smell. You got the perfect man right there. Are you kidding me?

David Mossey
Yeah. Oh, my God. It is. It is glorious. Anyway, can I just say one thing before I move on about the show that shall not be named?

When brazil play Columbia, I would like to get Melissa Ortiz on this pod. So Kyla needs to start planting the seed to stick around and have some fun going back and forth. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, we love Melissa.

Alexi Lawless
Okay, should we do it? You ready? Yes. Okay. So we get to the final game of the day, Brazil versus Costa Rica.

Some of the folks over there were telling me about the odds that Costa Rica would win this, and they were astronomical. The odds that Costa Rica would even get a point were astronomical. So somebody out there played this and won a lot of money. As we said, zero. Zero.

Now, everybody watching you, everybody here at some level, has watched a soccer game where you have a team that is miles better than the opposition. The wonderful thing I think about soccer is that you can be miles off from the opponent that you're playing. And if you are tactically sound, and if you are together and there is communication and coordination, and yes, the soccer gods smile upon you. Big things and good things can happen, and you can bend, but not break. You know, people talk about in 1998 when the US beat Brazil in the goal in the Gold Cup 10 from Preki.

What people ultimately get to is that Casey Keller stood on his head. All right? And if we had played that game a hundred times, 99 times, we would lose, and we would lose badly to Brazil. So you needed a perfect moment. Costa Rica needed a perfect moment.

They needed everything to go their way, including a referee that evidently was not going to call anything, whether it was a foul or a penalty, unless there was protruding bone out there. And I love the fact that he was consistent in it, but it was a little bizarre because there were multiple times where I do think that Brazil was due not just fouls, but penalties and clear types of penalties. Before we get into the details, just in general, where'd you watch the game? My desk on the first floor. Okay.

Alone? Yes. Okay. And how were you responding? And, you know, if I did, like a wave graph, how did it go here?

David Mossey
First off, before we get to the game, I did not watch the pregame show, but my phone was blowing up because people were telling me that my name was mentioned several times. So you didn't watch it? No. What's the point of doing it if you're not watching it? Yes.

Alexi Lawless
Rob Stone wanted to make a point of talking about you. I tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted. So if we're going to do it, we're going to do it. Yes. We brought up your name on a consistent basis, the proud brazilian American that you are, the way that you have talked over the last couple of years about this team.

And I do think that it was good because it actually played, laid out to a certain extent in the way that we saw this brazilian team. So I'll get you a tape of it, all right, we don't make tape anymore, but I'll get you whatever they call it, whatever the kids call it nowadays, and I'll give it to you and you can watch it. It was all positive. You're a big star. And as I said on air, you're not only our colleague, but you're our friend.

So how did it feel, my friend, to watch Brazil do this again? If you've listened to this pod the last two years, you know my opinion of this team. So I was not that disappointed because my expectations are incredibly low. Yeah, it's. It's painful to watch, but, you know, when you go in expecting the worst, I'm just wondering what rock bottom is.

David Mossey
Is it going to be missing the World cup? This is now two wins in the last nine games. As we know, Brazil are wallowing in 6th place out of ten teams in south american World cup qualifying. So, yeah, it's just not a good team. Well, what if.

Alexi Lawless
What if Costa Rica had come out all guns blazing, kicked your ass all over the field and Brazil had popped in a goal? You'd be happy. No, I mean, is it just about the result? Because if you just look at this game, the amount of possession that you had, the amount of opportunities that you created and yes, I know it's about putting the ball in the back of the net. All right, but how did what you have seen with this team manifest today.

David Mossey
You thought the story of this game was Brazil dominant and just unlucky in front of goal and Costa Rica somehow pulling a result out of their ass. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't see that performance. I thought it was problems that you. Have, you have pointed out and highlighted over the years.

Alexi Lawless
Are they still there? How did they manifest today on the field, other than they didn't beat Costa Rica and they didn't score. I thought Brazil's play was completely ragged, the way in which they went about attacking them. There were no good patterns of play, no fluidity in their passing. I mean, they hit the post, they had point blank shots, they had penalties that, you know, in.

David Mossey
In. Again, in any other situation would have been called. I mean. Well, let's. Let's go there.

Devonis play in the first half, you think? Definitely, yeah, I agree with the handball in the second half, the. The push. I didn't think it was. I think he stepped on the ball.

Alexi Lawless
The handball, because you're making yourself bigger with your arm over here. I know it's a normal position, but you're blocking the cross and it's important, not necessarily in the laws, but I think it's important in terms of having context. There was a brazilian player right behind the defender, so you're blocking the cross with your hand that would have gone directly to a brazilian player. So even that. Brazil used to be the team that would get all the calls and even that, we've lost the respect from the referees, so.

Oh, my God. All right, is all is lost here, or what's the situation now? Is this. I mean, yes, I mean, this was the easiest of the three games. I think we're definitely going to lose to Columbia.

David Mossey
We'll see about Paraguay, but I'll just say, I mean, I think Hendrick should start, but focusing on which forwards are on the field and overlooking the issues in the midfield, I think, is missing the point. I continue to think that simply replacing Joan Gomez with Douglas Luiz would make this team a lot better. Just introducing another more technical midfielder who can combine with Bruno Guimarons and Lucas Paqueta. So that's the first change I would make. And then, yes, I would put Endric in there in place of Rafinha and have a front three of Vinicius, Rodrigo and Enrich.

Although Vinicius, what a disastrous performance. Yanked off in the second half. So, yeah, his issues continue. Why he can't play. I understand why he can't play as well for Brazil as he does for Real Madrid, because Real Madrid is a much better team than Brazil and much more well structured and better coached by Ancellotti, but it should at least be in the ballpark, and it's not.

I mean, my God, the ease with which he skips past defenders, with Real Madrid and then with Brazil, he's one on one against the likes of Joe Scally and the defenders Costa Rica had tonight, and he can't get by them. Once I liked Savio when he came in. Thought he was really good. Yeah. You know, he's a.

He's a player whose city football group signed, and they framed it as a tra signing, and then they loaned him to Girona, and now Manchester City have bought him. And there's controversy because, technically, per this new rule by UEFA, two teams that are in the same competition shouldn't be allowed to exchange players. And Girona and Manchester City are both in the Champions League next season. But City are saying, no, it's ok, because we technically bought him from TrA. I mentioned that to Zach Kenworthy today, and I got an earful about Manchester City and how dirty they are and all the violations.

So that issue has come up. You know, people are watching us live right now. All right? So in real time, I'm getting messages here. All right?

Alexi Lawless
And people don't seem to agree with you, Mossy. All right? And if it's. If it's happening on the Internet, that it must be true. Right?

Okay. And it must be the voice of the people and the majority out there. So how about, for example, this. Lol. That means laugh out loud.

I'm told Brazil had 75% of the possession. At times, they even had more and, like, 20 chances. Sometimes other teams just go for the draw. Well, yeah, Brazil fans are getting as delusional as England and even the us men's national team. Wow.

Okay, so he. You caught some shrapnel there, too, on that? Yeah, a little bit, but, you know, it's. It's the way that goes. But I.

I do think that there is a sky is falling type of situation here. And I'm not saying that this is the. That this is not a Brazil light team, but I'm just saying after this 90 minutes, all right, in the. In the annals of bad, bad soccer games, all right, I don't think that this. That this bad, bad performances from Brazil.

I don't think that this ranks up there in that they couldn't complete passes or they couldn't create chances. So why am I giving you perspective? And I know it's sports. You're not supposed to have perspective, but why the hell am I the one that's so supportive and positive about this. About this team?

All right, well, who knows? Could you imagine the american soccer fans? We've kind of built this tournament up to be about Greg Berhalter, and this team are going to have to face an elite team in order to go through, and it ends up being Costa Rica.

Oh, man. Oh, my goodness. And congratulations. To Costa Rica. All right.

And brazil, you got CONcAcAF, my friends, and it was wonderful to see and they held on. I don't know ultimately how this tournament's going to end out for them. I do think Brazil is going to be fine. We at Fox here would like Brazil to continue on, but zero, zero. A big, big surprise result when it comes to the Copa America today.

Should we preview what's happening tomorrow, my friend? Yes. Did the euros first. Two more groups drawing to a close. Group D, France will face Poland in Leipzig live on Fox.

David Mossey
The Netherlands will battle Austria on fs one. That game is in Berlin. France and the Netherlands already through. Poland already eliminated. So all we're looking at there is who's going to top the group and also if Austria can advance.

Alexi Lawless
Okay, so Austria, Austria, Netherlands. I love that Austria team. It would pain me if they did not go through because I think that they're good. And the big story with France is it does sound like Mbappe will play tomorrow with a mask. So we'll see how he looks and.

He'Ll get his yellow card and then he'll be out for the round of 16. There we go. Okay, perfect. You're obsessed with this Mbappe yellow card situation. I just hate the yellow card rules and situations.

I think it deprives us of players and I get what the rules are. But anyway, okay, so I'm up early. I'm working all of these into all the way six games, so I'll be working all of them. So if you're cool with that, great. If you're not, I don't care because I'm still working it and the red light's going to turn on and I'm going to be out there speaking.

And then you want to talk about Copa at all for what's coming. Well, we have another group. Oh, did you not do Group C? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Go ahead, group C.

David Mossey
England will face Slovenia in Cologne. That one is live on Fox. And then Denmark, Serbia in Munich. That one is live on fs one. England already through.

They're just trying to get first place. Slovenia and Denmark only need a point to advance. Serbia need a win. But all three of those teams still alive. So that's going to be a fun conclusion to that group.

Alexi Lawless
That will be fun. And look, while England has advanced, it's still England. And so England and their fan base and the press are going to be, as always, out for blood and looking for some sort of rebound in terms of way that they play and a better performance and I don't think that a lot of people have at this point, a lot of confidence that England is going to bring it on home or bring it coming home or. I don't know how you say that anyway, bring it on home. Anything else there in terms of preview for tomorrow before we get to one for the road?

David Mossey
Well, then we've got two Copa America games. The second set of matches in Group A, Peru, will face Canada at Children's Mercy park. And then the big one, Chile Argentina, at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, which is the same venue where they played the 2016 centenarial final. When Messi skied the penalty, Chile won. Messi cried, retired, afterwards, decided to come back, which is a decision that I think worked out pretty well for him last year.

Alexi Lawless
Yeah, it did. I remember that. Oh, he was. He was so angry and crying. Messy.

And then he, you know, said he wasn't going to play anymore, but he was coming back. We already knew that. I'm looking forward to see Canada. As we said before, after that first game against Argentina, when Canada had a look around at their other two games, Jesse Marsh and company had to be licking their chops. So this is where they have an opportunity to get three points.

And have you seen the scenes from New York City and Times Square? It's pretty incredible. The argentinian fans that are down out there partying and flags and beer and people with their shirts off and doing all this kind of stuff. Wonderful scenes. And we should mention today was Messi's 37th birthday.

Yeah, they saw, they. They got him some cake and he said hello to everybody out the window and did all that kind of stuff. All right. Anything else? Messi?

David Mossey
That's it. All right, well, let's, like I said, get onto one for the road and then get everybody out here. We still have some work to do when it comes to what we are doing. When I say we, we over here at Fox, for those that have tuned in, first off, I appreciate you tune in and you watch us either on big Fox or fs one or fs two. You will have seen that we have this incredible set.

Alexi Lawless
And Moss, you get to sit in the control room and see everything that happens. I have gotten multiple texts. I have gotten multiple calls. People have asked me, how's Germany in that? They have seen it in passing or sporadically.

And because of the virtual world that we have created and how authentic it is and real it is, there are many people that actually believe that we are, wherever that background is. In this cathedral, in this, we call it this palace. That we have created. We're not trying to fool anybody. And somebody asked me today if I could buy a shirt for them in Germany and bring it back, and then they would pay me back.

It is an amazing setup and the technology that is being used is state of the art and it is a work in progress. We have people that are coming through each and every day. Even today there were some interesting people that were coming through because now it started to filter out. People have seen what the end product is out on their screens and they want to know how the sausage is made. They want to know how they can incorporate it into things that they are doing.

It is a very different type of experience, I will tell you, than doing studio. For most of the other tournaments where we are on site first, a lot of people over the years, they have started to watch a tournament. We're in Qatar or in Australia or years back, they would watch and the set becomes part of their daily viewing and it becomes a character in the story that we are telling. And so oftentimes, for example, if they go to the tournament, there will be this migration to the set and they want to get a picture on the set. If one were to do that here, it would not work because you would sit down at our set and none of the stuff that you have been watching on your couch is behind us.

This is the way of the present and it's certainly the way of the future. And there are a lot of uses going forward. Would myself and others like to be in these places? Sure. But also from a practical perspective, doing two tournaments at the same time, this made the most sense.

And this, I think, from an aesthetic and a production standpoint, enables us to do what hasn't been done, which is due to simultaneous tournaments. I will, you know, going forward, try to, you know, take some backstage types of stuff and let people know, because I know a lot of people are asking me that do know what is happening? You know, what does it look like back there and how are you doing it? I don't have the technical expertise or knowledge to tell you how it all gets done. My good friend Mossy, who I said is in the control room, how do you think things are going when it comes to the technology that we have?

And how do you like this aesthetic relative to many of the World cups that you have worked oftentimes on the ground? I think overall it's going well. We've had some technical glitches, especially when it comes to lineups. But other than that, I think the set looks great. So I'm enjoying it.

It would not surprise me, too. Going forward, other entities, other productions that we have at Fox, and by the way, others out there were to use some of this technology. And you would see this as becoming more of the norm going forward. Mossy, anything before we go, my friend? A couple things.

Oh, God, here we go. Well, first off, you got to read your little Internet comments there. So I'm going to read mine. I'm on a text chain with Ian Joy and Keith Costigan. And they just texted me.

David Mossey
Ian said, keith, how do you think our boy Mossy is doing right now? Holy f. That was. Poor Keith responded. Jesus.

Almost stuck pins in my eyes. Wow. Two guys who weren't impressed by Brazil. They were all right. Secondly.

Alexi Lawless
Oh, God, there's more. One postscript to last night's pod I mentioned. I sit on the first floor, and in the cubicle next to me is our good friend Adam Inman. And every single time he walks by my desk, I have my feet up and I have my computer on my lap, and I'm leaning back, and that's how I'm working. And so he thinks that should have been the logo.

David Mossey
He thinks the image that Brad Weimer went with. Wow. Misrepresents what my usual pose is when I'm working. So he doesn't believe that the lotus Buddha type of thing, cross legged thing that you were doing is the norm. And he would much rather have it with your feet up.

Alexi Lawless
It's hard to have that be the logo. Cause the feet up, you know, that conjures up images of being lazy and just kind of not doing anything. But I don't doubt him. I'm sure that you are oftentimes found with your computer doing your hen peck, single finger stuff with your legs up. So.

Well, who knows? We have, like we said, we got a lot of time left in this tournament. Three weeks. We're a little less than three weeks now until the finals. There's some very creative people here in the building.

I'm sure they can find a way to maybe work that in going forward. But until then, we're gonna stick with the Lotus or the whatever. We have to find a name for it of the one that we did last night. All right, you ready to go? Well, first of all, I do wanna thank Nick Rago and Fran Arthur for being in attendance tonight.

David Mossey
I don't know where Kat went, but she walked out. Yeah, she walked out on us. We get in line. Plenty of them. All right, well, listen, I do.

Alexi Lawless
Yeah. Thanks to everybody that stuck around for the whole show, whether you're out there or whether you're actually in here. We do this every single night, believe it or not. And sometimes it's really, really good. Sometimes it's okay.

But I think you saw a surprisingly even keeled David Mossy. I thought you were going to be a little bit more animated and angry. But to defend you again, this is nothing that you didn't expect. And so I expect more from Brazil. I expect we will see more from Brazil.

And I look forward to talking to you, not just tomorrow, but when Brazil gets back on the field and rectifies the situation here. But until then, we're all Ticos. It was wonderful tonight. So congratulations to Costa Rica on a huge, huge result and getting a point. Keep doing what you're doing.

Keep subscribing. By the way, we're killing it over there on YouTube with the subscription. Smash that button. Smash that button. Smash that button.

And keep reviewing and downloading and like I said, subscribing and doing all the things that you do when it comes to the State of the union. We will talk to you again tomorrow for another big day of games. I'll be up early, as will Mossy. Mossy's gonna go write some stuff. And until then, and as always, my friends.

Sighs the day.