I like my lineups to look pretty I really wouldn't be surprised to see Tally get the start in front of his hometown crowd. LB was a toss up, Morrow is really the only LB but who knows if JK just puts a RB there.
not really a surprise, Hall is better than Johnson/Hamid, Jurgen just brings them in to develop them I think
i recall the 0-0 result we had with canada... comparing results is alwys dangerous, i prefer seeing how poeple play can we create a ton of good scoring chances, and give up none
There are a lot of players I want to see get a chance. Gonzalez, AJ Delagarza, Hall, Besler, Feilhaber, Diskerud, Zusi, Davis, Agudelo, Wondolowski, and Bruin.
If you buy into the notion of bogey teams -- opponents that a team frequently seems to do worse against than it "should" -- then Canada is one of the USA's bogey teams. It could always just be coincidence, of course, but last year's scoreless draw, the 2-0 result in the 2011 Gold Cup, and the 2-1 result in the 2007 Gold Cup stand out as "why didn't the USA blow out Canada?" games.
Those were all "A" type teams vs. "A" type teams. I think most would admit that the USA has a deeper squad compared to our neighbors of the north. This being a non-Fifa date makes a huge difference. I think we win comfortably.
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The one big blowout the USA has achieved over Canada (well, since the USA stomped Canada in 1925 and 1926) supports your point: what appears to my eye to be a largely young and domestic USA squad romped to a 4-0 victory over Canada in 2003. http://www.ussoccer.com/news/mens-n...en-down-canada-4-0-to-open-2003-in-style.aspx Realize as you glance over the line-up that, at the time, Tim Howard was still a MetroStar, Bocanegra was still with the Fire (and scored his first international goal!), and Donovan was still an Earthquake.
This (and the match following it) probably the biggest horror tale of a United States team in recent memory.
That was such a horrible match to watch. Hopefully we thrash Canada and give our guys a morale boost.
Ill disagree with that. It was a major problem for the team. It resulted in Teal Bunbury starting and took out Agudelo's creative moment which had opened space and confused defenders against Mexico and Cuba. We can laugh about Cuba all we want, but they tied a Canadian team we lost to.
We had Terrence Boyd who should have started in the 2nd game against Canada. The defense and Porter's coaching decisions were the big reasons why the U23s failed to qualify.
Going by people's quotes and such, it really sounds suspiciously like they were playing in and preparing for a 442, which kind of flies in the face of much of what Klinsi's done thus far. In any case, assuming we do play 442, here's my guess at the XI for tomorrow: ---------Johnson----Wondolowski-------- Davis------Beckerman-----Zusi-------Gatt Morrow-----Besler---Gonzales----Beltran ------------------Johnson-------------------- If that's not the case and we go more 433ish, then something like this: -------------------Bruin------------------------ Johnson----------------------------------Gatt ----------Feilhaber--------Zusi--------------- --------------------Beckerman---------------- Morrow----Besler---Gonzales------Beltran --------------------Johnson------------------- EDIT: Diskerud for Feilhaber
From what I've seen in Klinsmann's lineups, he's pretty flexible on formations. He's used -------ST-ST LM----------RM ----CM-CM LB-CB-CB-RB ----------ST LW----------RW ----8------8 --------6 LB-CB-CB-RB -------ST LW----CAM----RW -----8-----6 LB-CB-CB-RB ----ST---ST -------CAM LM-----------RM ---------CM LB-CB-CB-RB