This week America was on full display as the Club World Cup Final was played in Met Life Stadium in NJ and NYCFC traveled to Charlotte. Mike Allen and Mike Anderer are joined by Christian Smith to breakdown the week in soccer and to look ahead at a busy week for NYCFC with two more road games coming up.

The Gold Cup comes to an end with the USMNT falling to their rivals Mexico in Houston. Sports loves controversy and in the 66th minute of the final there was a huge moment that impacted the outcome.

NYCFC also hosted another across the border rival in Yankee Stadium and Mitjia Illenic was in the thick of building the tension between the two sides.

Oh, and then there's the rumors of a new attacking midfielder, but we'll get to that at the end of the show.

This week was a tough one for the odds makers. CF Montreal had not won a home game all season long. NYCFC is notoriously bad as a road team and had already handed CF Montreal one of their few victories this season. CF Montreal was missing seven players to international duty and NYCFC was missing their striker and starting keeper. Then, if it wasn't difficult enough for the Vegas bookies, two days before the match it was announced that NYCFC head coach, Pascal Jansen, had to return to Europe for a family emergency.

In the end, the game played out as expected. NYCFC played down to their opponent's table position and lost 1-0. Luckily for NYCFC fans their two international stars, Matt Freese and Alonso Martinez, took center stage at the Gold Cup and truly put on a show. That's how Mike Anderer, Mike Allen and J.R. diBart start off this week's episode.