We played pretty well considering the players out there. Steffen is a good keeper on an average club. He can block shots but doesn't organize a defense very well. Tim Ream is a below average player good for several mistakes per game. Yedlin is coming off of an injury and is an ok right back. Lovitz is a player I think only Berhalter knew existed. He's ********ing terrible. Long is OK, error-prone, but surrounded by a lot of garbage. Bradley has good instincts but too slow to execute on them anymore. McKennie is a still developing player with a great club situation, weighed down by Berhalter. Morris is a solid MLS player, which is saying he's ok. Pulisic can be world class, but struggling for minutes at club and not in the best form. Sargent is so young and learning and has lots of talent, but performances like this are to be expected. I had to remind myself that Roldan was on the field. He belongs nowhere near it. The manager sees himself as a svengali or some shit. He's just a dumbass in a v neck sweater. add it all up you gots yoself some garbage
Agree. Every US coach faces the same problem, which Berhalter somehow manged to exacerbate against Canada. Our players aren't technically proficient enough to overcome the pressure applied by more athletic competition. You can see it coming every time. They put us under constant pressure, and we simply concede possession or fail to win 50-50's, or worse still, play a terrible ball out of the back that puts an opposing player directly in on goal. We have players who can't play a good ball over 10 yards. We have players who can't receive a ball with a defender on their back, then turn and eliminate the defender. We have players who head balls away that they could have otherwise played. I've been willing to give Berhalter the benefit of the doubt. However, watching the Canada game (after he'd even said the priority was to win), I've come to the conclusion that he is simply too dogmatic to coach a team with this level of individual competency.
i hope we have gotten all the arrogant bs about being too good for the region, too good for nations league, too good for canada, out of our system. bluntly, losing to mexico twice should have been enough. that alone should have triggered a "not good enough" response except for the first time in our recent history, it's become somehow proper to concede Mexico. well, now we see we're the worst in North America at the moment.
Well, the only thing that really matters is how he sees his chances to make an impact in the Orange squad. Just being one on the "call when needed list" or one for the bench in a tournement isnot appealing at all. The USMNT looks bad at the moment, but that can change fast (if proper actions are taken) and he could talk Kik pierie into considering a swap, which would be a tremendous improvement in the back with his long range laser guided passes.
lol people worried about dest as if he would have made much of a difference. oh no what if dest doesn't choose us? right back is the least of our problems.
IMO, Dest would be a fantastic add for this team.... He has serious pace, makes unique/timely runs and can actually shoot the ball from outside the box.... but after last night I don't see why he would ever want to play for a GB led USMNT again. I think that ship has sailed... why be anchored to it when you know it is going down.
Honestly I’d take a look at Dest as a CM. He’s featured there for Ajax at times (including UCL). With Adams injury I’d play Wes, Holmes and Dest over Bradley, Roldan and Wes any day of week and twice on Sunday.
would be nice to have Dest, but we'll still be fine without him. does anyone remember Rossi or that Gonzalez kid?
this team needs to get rid itself of the likes of Bradley, Roldan, Trapp, Zardes, Lovitz, and a few others before it can successfully able to move forward. and only a new 'outside' coach/regime would be able to do that.
That's why you play him at left back, where he'd be an enormous upgrade over Lovitz, though I'm sure it would illicit plenty of whining too.
Look, before one can throw out players one has to identify the replacers first. To do so you need a selection mechanism. You obviously arenot going to get A Dutch style amateur to pro club academy sifting mechanism, so the USSF has to set up a top down system with youth training/selection camps on a state base r a combination of that and club academies.
it won't elicit much winning though. Hey coach I start for one of the best teams on the continent, that's not opinion. that's fact. Hey coach, I start as RB on that team, that's not opinion, that's fact. Hey coach, I start on one of the best teams in the content, as a right back in the champions league. That is a fact, not opinion. Beerholder: In my opinion, you are a left back and not better than FC dallas american prospect as a right back. Sure thing boyo. Let me know how your opinions work out as results.
The notion that the US talent pool isn't deep enough to avoid nights like last night, or years like the past year, seems absurd to me.
Nothing absurd about it. The results point to a very simple fact: The US players plus coaching combinations are extremely poor. That is a fact. No need to over think it.
Well, since he tries to play like Messi by attempting to dribble through traffic, maybe he needs to read the book on how Messi overcomes his small stature against larger players. So yes, it’s possible to become a great player with his size, but everything I’ve seen, he gets dispossessed off the ball way to easily. It’s like with any sport, give teams the time and they will figure out how to contain you. If CP wants to be great, he has to unlock what it’s going to take to stay consistently good... not just one off games here and there...
We have a tendency to forget how young and early in his career he is. He isn’t in his prime and Berhalter probably won’t be around that long. He shouldn’t be basing his decision on how we look now. That would be incredibly short sighted.
You responded to something I didn't say by adding an ingredient. I think we probably agree about that ingredient.
Beerholder? I'm not so sure. It's like saying ruined garlic ruined your already terrible spaghetti. His original idea for how to play was terrible. He next switch was even worse. You place donovan, dempsey, jones, dolo, edu, feilhaber, cameron and antiscore in the mix and he wins and looks better than Bradley ever did. But he can't, because their replacements are highly manicured garbage.
I was wondering how ML$$occer.com was going to spin this loss. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...ens-national-team-still-spinning-their-wheels Blame it on JK! @Bob Morocco , you think about a loss to Costa Rica IN costa rica quite a lot? Just so happens to be the Non-MLS coach? How about all those other losses in costa rica, such as the 3-1 thrashing Bob's team got? Or the losses Bruce Arena took? In fact do you think often about every match the US has ever played in Costa Rica: Because we've never won there. You seem to think an awful lot about Jk's losses, but somehow, never reflect too heavily on his very impressive wins, or the losses of other coaches under the same circumstances. I'm not a JK apologist, but I do respect the fact that he got closer/even to the Quarters than Bob Bradley did with less talent at almost every position, 10x more travel than their competitors, the eventual WC winner in the group and yes, he beat Ghana. We do agree on one thing: we need to ball win. We need to press. We need the very best players on the pitch,not just the MLS guys who pass to the Foreign stars in MLS.
Dest would immediately become one of the top 2 or 3 players available to the USMNT and he is likely to only improve. Forget the position, we can't afford to lose that kind of talent.