Really liked what I saw from him. Great quickness and awareness. Seemed to fit in well with what Leipzig was doing.
With Tyler Adams' debut today, five Americans under 21 have played in the Bundesliga this season. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Before this season, no more than two Americans under 21 had played in the same Bundesliga season.— Paul Carr (@PaulCarr) January 27, 2019
what an excellent debut .... just to recap: 19 years old starts 90 minutes on the road regular Bundesliga match in pursuit of the top four slotting this is a statement of confidence of him by his coach I noticed that he did not seem to slow down or tire till minute 87 he made a couple of errant passes but all in all his athleticism, game thinking, anticipation, and physicality were excellent. with him and Mckennie anchoring our midfield in the future (as long as they are healthy - knock on wood) that is a very strong pairing. Bright future.
I really do like your sense of humor. : - ) That is like saying I really like that Gremlin and Pinto in the driveway when you have a Porsche and Lotus in the garage.
defense - excellent. passing - very good. a few forward passes missed their mark, but I won't dwell on them. (he'll improve I'm sure. he's clearly prepared to put the work in. but even after he becomes ngolo kante, he'll still miss a few of those.) it's the nature of the game. forward passes by world class players miss their mark in top leagues every week.
Thanks for ruining a great thread about a promising Yank Abroad. Please take your stunted grievance politics somewhere else.
His comment would have been very apt in England in the 80s and 90s, when black players were very stigmatized, but not much in the global soccer place today
If I was going to quibble, I'd say he did demonstrate some willingness to try the hard pass on occasion. Late in the game there was the lofted diagonal pass that he connected on today (and a couple similar ones in his friendly appearance) suggest that he has some capability of delivering a weighted ball. That might be an easier one for him to get good at than a shorter one up the gut in traffic. There are passes on overlapping runs he might want to perfect, too. Players who can deliver defense-unlocking interior passes are in short supply at every level of the US game. He showed some flashes of passing ability with the Red Bulls, enough to suggest more to come, but he's so darn useful in that deeper lying role that he doesn't often get the chance to show what he can do.