He's far from our most accomplished player ever. Sheesh. He has not done what Clint Dempsey has done. And frankly, he hasn't done what Landon Donovan has done.
So did Fonz. Did you see him dive and claim foul after McKennie over-took him in the open field with superior speed and pick him clean? You have to know when to let go of the ball. That goes for any young player. Pulisic never learned that at Dortmund. Also, General Egg once again, with BS fannie boys chorus in full support, put Pulisic wide and asked him to drop too deep in defense when he should always be central, not far from the halfway line on defense, so he can take off on a bee line to goal. I've said it over and over again but it just doesn't sink in. Instead, we have this chimera of McKennie "arriving late in the box" from his General Egg dub10 position (where he is a poor defender) while Pulisic gets backed up wide.
Answer: the number of time Jay's Brother's system put Puli in the position of having to dribble attack 3 to 4 defenders at midfield with no one ahead of him to pass to.
somebody post pulisics numbers at dortmund- the goals vs bayern, winning the league over them, the cl games, assists, goals (while chelsea were in the europa leauge/crashing out of the group stage at best)...i just want to see him tie himself in knots defending the grossly overrated epl while also saying its too high a level for pulisic...who was at a better team than chelsea over the last decade. itll be cat-with-a-laser-pointer ridiculous, guaranteed...
Ream assisted on both goals. He literally gave the ball away twice to set up both of Canada's goals. You really can't be worse than that, as a defender.
My 23: Forward (2): Jozy Sargent Forwards/Wingers (6): Pulisic Weah Morris Arriola Llanez Reyna Central Mids (6): McKennie Pomykal Adams Holmes Ledezma Fullbacks (4): Dest/Gloster Cannon Lima Robinson Centerbacks (3): Brooks Miazga Richards Keeper (3): Steffen Horvath Gonzalez The 24-35 Soto Mendez LLetget Morales Yueill Lewis Gooch K. Parks J. Green Araujo M. Robinson Long/Zimmerman Something like this. FTR, I recognize that I'd have to kind of view some of these kids as Double A guys, shuttling back and forth between the U23's and the senior team, but I'd not be replacing them w/stiffs, I'd be looking at options w/potential whether it's MLS guys like Toye or Ebobisse, or international's like Siebatcheu, and Nova etc. I would not be wasting spots on guys w/o a long term future unless they could be glue guys (like a Bedoya or a Morales in the midfield for instance), I'd rather take my lumps with guys like Robinson, Lima and Gloster than continually call in a Lovitz.
Burley's like the result of a soccer version of Skip Bayless, Colin Cowherd, and Stephen A Smith (when he's talking football) managing to have a baby.
Grossly overrated EPL? Would you not say it is in the top 3 best leagues in the world? It was a clean sweep in Europeon club competitions for the EPL last season.
There's something disquieting about having Jozy as our likely main striker going forward. He'll be 32 in Qatar.
it was a poor choice of words. most annoyingly overrated. over the last 8 or so years spain has dominated, and germany has been far more successful in both cl and el. yes, epl teams are finally actual powers again, but what was it three, four years ago they had zero teams in the cl knockout round? so sure, top 3 in the world. theyve nosed back ahead of germany. all the "best" and "greatest" superlatives are misleading- the epl is the richest league in the world. THATS their only dominance.
Ignore the troll. He is all strawman arguments, moving goalposts, counterfactuals, focusing on irrelevant data points, etc. All out of the troll handbook.
Well, today Pulisic didn't try to dribble the three defenders on him but actually lifted his head and made the correct pass. This is an important moment. He keeps doing that, he's going to get a lot more minutes with Chelsea and will start looking better with us against decent rivals too.
Puli has made the correct pass a number of times this season. That's why he's Chelsea's assist leader. Two strong Chelsea performances sandwiched between this NT crapfest is another strike against GGG. The evidence is overwhelming that our players play worse under GGG than with their clubs.
This is the first time he is surrounded by defenders and sneaks a pass after looking behind, to see who is coming in, which is the smart thing to do. So far he's been looking up front (when he looks) and seeing no one, tried to dribble through the mark. The other assists he got were easy lay-offs by comparison.
And more evidence GGG is toxic. Going back to Newcastle is apparently better than being with the USMNT. 👀Building that “Environment players want to be a part of” doesn’t look like it’s going great.https://t.co/Je9HGt1Ue1 pic.twitter.com/PfwQ6idadN— HalfSpaces (@blharreld) October 19, 2019
Someone will rise up. Sarge scored today. Others will come along. But first, we have to make it to Qatar. We won't with Jay's Brother managing.
To the people clamoring for Morales: he didn't play, he's reported as sick. So he was injured for a month, played 20 minutes, and now is sick. To the people clamoring for Holmes: he played as a sub, he's been having muscle issues since April, quadriceps. From all reports he's not the same player he was last season.
I'm not gonna take the time to dig up video but neither of these were simply layoffs if you watch the run of play. Pulisic is like a magnet who pulls everyone's attention towards him to free his teammates! Almost the exact replica of his assist against Liverpool in the super Cup! pic.twitter.com/Fm0sj9gp70— Nouman (@nomifooty) October 6, 2019
Several of our Yanks who looked poor during the international break have looked good today. Actually, this has been the best Saturday for Yanks Abroad in a long time. The interpretation can be left to subjective bias: "That they look good with their teams only proves how inept Egg is" or "that they look good means they got a good lesson from the NT," you can pick whichever fits your desired narrative best. He's passing forward, making the obvious (if not trivial) pass. Today he stopped, looked BACK and made the pass to the player on-rushing into the action. That is big, a player of Pulisic characteristics can be lethal if he learns to do that often, not doing the evident forward pass that can get blocked more easily, not trying to dribble between two or more players to get the space, but actually looking who is running from the middle.
Guess I missed when Dempsey and Landon played for top 10 in the worldish club teams. Im ignoring national team, bc he hasn't had a chance and he's 21. I think Messi is the best player ever, not Maradona because he won a world cup (don't know enough about Pele). Club football is where you make it happen. Nat sides is icing on the cake, as it's too random and reliant on your nation. On the club side, Pulisic is already our best, most talented, most accomplished player ever. He could retire now and he would be the only American that has played and succeeded for the world's best teams (not fulham, not Everton for a month, not psv). Sure it sounds like hyperbole, but it ain't. Sure I love Clint and Landon both, but they simply were not as talented. Sorry.
Yep, technicallty Puli is the best we have developed in the USA. Above Claudio Reyna and Hugo Perez (some will say part of his development was in El Salvador though). But individual technique is only like 25% of the game. There's the physical side, the team vision, and the mentality. IMO, today Puli gave a big step forward in the vision area. Otherwise, individual technique is where US players have always lagged the most, so being the best at it ever is not high praise. Puli still needs to learn to hide a ball and not let others just take it from his feet. That's a big weakness in individual technique.
Performance at a high league level is more important than simple club affiliation. And at club level, Pulisic accomplishments can't remotely touch those of Dempsey, Howard, Freidel, Jones, Dempsey, Hejduk, Beasley and Dooley. And at international level, Pulisic has been poor against Costa Rica and Mexico. Zero goals and zero assists. He did nothing against Canada. He has had opportunities at international level. Right now, he can't be compared to the aforementioned players plus Donovan. Pulisic is part of a talented and accomplished young cohort of players, including Weah, Sargent, McKennie, Dest, and Adams. Some of these guys have already played in UCL. At this stage of his career, these are the guys, Pulisic needs to be compared to. Leave the legends alone.
If we are going with another US coach, it should be Tab Ramos. At least his teams win and advance through tournaments, and if they don't, they play with grit throughout the game.