Romain Gall scores two goals today that are more than national team worthy. The second goal apparently had a longer individual run by Gall but the beginning of the video cut it off. https://www.flashscore.com/match/YZmw1fms/#video
Wish him well, really think he is line for a breakout if he can just get enough time. A second half brace is a way to do it.
Yedlin played okay against Chelsea, got an assist on a cross. Also got an own goal, but if he had not tapped it Ross Barkley had ran to the back post and would have tapped it in. Benitez played a back 5 that was really flat so it was a lot of defending.
Agreed. It’s still hard for me to see the actual downside in being a Spurs (or other UCL contending team) loanee for an improving player.
Yedlin has to do better than that if he's going to be one of the USMNT's mainstays. Pulisic had a great game, and both Fabian and Brooks scored goals yesterday for their game-winning clubs.
I thought Puli was good, not great. As the announcers noted, he dribbles himself into trouble a lot - goes at multiple defenders when there is no space behind them. No point in trying to beat two guys when there are two more waiting. It's not like he's pulling defenses out of position when he does that. Seems like he almost plays on the front foot too much. Don't get me wrong, I'm super excited about him. Another guy, he's a small guy, he goes down a lot on contact, but doesn't always get the call.
Let's see Pulisic with a good manager and a good cf and good cmid. We'll train him to move the rock with purpose. Being the member of a dysfunctional family like Dortmund makes a boy dysfunctional. Bradley, Arriola and two headed monster Jozy + Wood? Totally idiotic. There's talk he'll play against Mexico. Let's see if Sarachan can get this right or if he just continues the futile exercise over and over and...……..
I'm confident he'll sort it out. He's got to find gradients of intensity between back pass and try-to-beat-the-whole-other-team. Number one, is he really shouldn't be going at 2 defenders if there is no space behind them. At the edge of the box, ok. But, he doesn't seem to have the ball at the edge of the box much.
“We’ll train him to move the rock with purpose”? National teams have little to zero time to train players on their game. There is barely enough time to bring players together and put together a playing system and definition of roles
Life isn't that simple. I would hope he and his mates would train passing to each other. I actually see them doing that sometimes.
Because no legit offers came in that met BVB's demands? He's a pawn at this stage. He wants to go and they know it, but they want their coin.
Dortmund is a selling club and they operate in that manner. Im not sure dysfunctional is the right term. Most players are used as pawns in professional sports unless you have the leverage to dictate the situation. It doesnt make sense for Dortmund to let Pulisic leave for anything less than their perceived value of him. Thats not Dysfunctional. They appear to already have a replacement in Sancho. It comes down to them getting the value they want for a top tier youth talent. To me, this sounds like a functional business.
Agree, I wouldn't use that term to describe them. They actually seem content to be second or third fiddle to Bayern as long as 80k lunatics show up every home game. Can't blame them at all. It's sound business. My comment was to say that Pulisic couldn't leave regardless of how he sees BVB at the time.
Josh’s goal today pic.twitter.com/DJxmCWrZxn— Jeff Sargent (@JeffSsarge64) August 29, 2018 You guys are slacking.............
Not sure he's a palatable flavor at the moment, but Geoff Cameron is moving to QPR. https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2018/08/30/geoff-cameron-to-complete-qpr-move/
So according to Transfermarkt, that's 4 goals in 6 games with Werder II. That sort of strike rate will get him looks with the 1st team sooner than later.
It will def get him looks in practice but he'll have to prove it there before a coach gives him looks in a game. Even then it will likely be end of game situations.
Nice effort by Yedlin. About the 85', he also had a play in which he schooled Sterling to slide an entry pass around the area. But Sterling, in addition to beating him and the RCB for a goal, also won some fouls in dangerous areas. I continue to maintain Yedlin would be better at wingback/wid-midfield, at least for the US, when we don't have the majority of possession.
I think he has turned into a real (non-American) right back and is in fine form. There were 3 players who could have stopped Sterling. Yedlin's job is, first of all, to stop Sterling from getting by him on the outside. He did that (on the goal; I haven't watched the whole game yet). For the USMNT he should do exactly what he does at Newcastle, imo.
I agree about Yedlin playing further up the pitch when we have less possession. His defensive positioning is a weakness.He has improved though. He relies on his recovery speed too often.
well, we play with 11 men including one gk. Of course, if you are like Jurgen and say that width comes from the fullbacks, because you haven't otherwise provided for width, and the other team is aware of that and given the easy job of marking the guy furthest from goal and...…...oh, never mind, I give up.
Siebatcheu makes his first start for Rennes today, against Bordeaux. He is worth monitoring for USMNT purposes because he keeps getting left out of France U21 squads and by a pretty wide margin (there are a handful of other guys getting left out who are ahead of him too), and his France youth eligibility is not far away from expiring. There are only two more remaining France U21 camps he could be called to for a provisional cap-tie (October, and the final next summer), and it seems unlikely that he would be with the guys ahead of him. We already know the USSF has contacted him though he probably declined at the time.