The US put on quite a show this afternoon in Cincinnati. Should Berhalter's job be on the line in the Gold Cup?
I advise all MNT fans to stop watching any further matches involving the senior team. It'll be a lot easier on you in the long run. That's what I've started doing.
I said this in the PBP thread but it’s really inexcusable for the team to be this poorly organized defensively. I don’t think we have enough talent to be actually good but there’s no reason for us to be this legitimately bad. If England is struggling to play out of the back with technically very good players, we shouldn’t even dream of trying it with this lot.
He's picking the right players. AAA players sometimes perform better than Major League players. Landon played in MLS. No need for Morales. We are still picking up the system. Lol
What happened to this Gregg Berhalter? "Gregg has brought order to our defensive game and has good discipline in the squad, but unfortunately we have not seen good enough dividends in the offense," Hammarby chairman Kent Hertzell told the club website. "Therefore, we chose to terminate cooperation with Gregg. We believe that we need to get a new force and new voice on the team." https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2013...g-berhalter-manager-citing-teams-lack-offense
Worst part is we will luck our way to the semis and it will be treated as Gregg bouncing back from two poor friendlies.
No kidding. Bradley and Klinsmann made sure to stabilize the backline and get us organized early in their cycles before trying to implement their pet tactical tweaks. Klinsmann couldn’t implement a possession style with better players all over the pitch. Berhalter is trying to skip steps with inferior tools. At this point we should be defensively sound and use our athleticism to play on the break.
We just had that, and he ran the team in the ground over time. The arrow didn't point up, instead it pointed way down. Subsequent managers were tasked at picking up the pieces, and they were way over their heads given their recent performances on the club level, plus there were conflicts of interest, so the pieces are still being picked up. Some people keep going back and forth with these small-minded scapegoats and supposed solutions that are in no way backed by empiricism and logic. Until personnel are evaluated based on their own merits, instead of superficial associations, and some myopic goal, this program will continue to massively underachieve. That will take functional front office in USS, which I don't know if we'll ever achieve unless there's a USSeperation.
Not commenting on you, but for everyone who still thinks that advancing in the GC is our birth-right, well . . . so was qualifying for the World Cup. I don’t think we think enough about the unthinkable. No one is gong to do us the kind of favor we did Mexico.
The next time that an MLS booster uses the phrase "knows the American player pool" remember this is what they mean.
These last two games were shockingly horrible for the US MNT. Embarrassing. So many basic errors, so disjointed. Is it poor coaching or something else? The more I painfully watch, the more I think the coaching staff does not understand how to coach a pool of players in a best fit system. I mean, best fit for resources available, and not best fit to some pre-made per tactical plan. We officially suck right now.
Have burned a year and a half — wasted — after not qualifying. This looks worse than where we started and as I pointed out we played VEN to a tie right before Couva.
You can see that our players play a lot slower, and are not nearly as quick as other team's players. And it's not merely foot speed/quickness, it's speed of thought, too. Speed of thought is the real killer.
The best we’ll get are open ended questions designed to let Berhalter talk as opposed to asking questions designed to get constructive responses.
Flat out two awful performances where you saw bad touches, the US flopping hoping for fouls, and a lot of miscommunication on the back end. That is unacceptable and some player selections that look especially awful after these two games. Are there some things that can be built on? Yes. Are there some players that showed themselves well? Few and far between but guys like Lima, Holmes, and Boyd showed things that I think merit more looks. But again the gold cup should not be where we are looking for for people to be a part of the team. At the very least this is where most accurately predicted wasting a year on the coaching search would cost us. At this point you hope for the Gold Cup adding Bradley, Adams, and Pulisic as well as McKennie and a few.others having their legs under them will make a difference. But after this tournament I think you see a few people out of the pool for now
GGG's job absolutely has to be on the line at Gold Cup. And I am not talking about just getting out of the group. If they continue to play this pathetic excuse for soccer then he needs to go. Period.