if we don’t care about winning on the road why not play guys like LDLT, Richards, HOPPE, Busio who have upside but limited experience.
I agree there. I think it was a balance (and turned out to be a waste). The internal process is probably (the poor assessment) that the guys from the last window give you a better chance and you take the players that give you the best chance given the self-imposed minute restriction for the best XI. I sure hope the next game where we decide we need to rotate we don't weigh experience so heavily. I don't think anyone gameplans for both fullback, and 2 CMs to all have their worst game at the same time though, so...yeah we take the L. I don't even really evaluate Weah or Zardes given how poor our ball progression was.
HOPPE PEPI WEAH AARONSON ADAMS WESTON ROBINSON ROBINSON RICHARDS DEST If any of lletget or Zardes or Acosta or bello or Moore see the field Gregg should be fired. Feels like he is losing the team already.
This was the game GGG should have put in Busio (over Acosta) , LDLT (over Lletget), Richards over Mckenzie, after all GGG did mention post match that he went to Panama looking for a tie not a win! Put Hoppe over Zardes or Hoppe over Arriola and start Pepi again over Zardes! Pepi is 18, for crying out loud! Wonder how Scally can play at LB compared to Bello if GGG ever decides to call up the "inexperienced" Bundesliga who has been on team of the week over the MLS player of the same age. But either way, I think GGG will try to repeat the line he brought out in the 2nd half vs Jamaica and start them vs Costa Rica. Players like Hoppe, Richards, LDLT, and Busio were called up just to vacation, apparently. I don't think GGG will start those 4 players vs Costa Rica because they are "inexperienced", according to GGG.
I blame NPR. That's right. Last month I'm listening to NPR and on the hourly news break they include an item about the USMNT was playing Canada. And what happens? We lose to Canada 1-1. Then Sunday I'm listening to NPR and again during the hourly news break they include an item about the USMNT playing Panama. D@#$% you NPR.
you can't drop guys match by match, the end of every window you will need 10 new guys and things wont get better they'll get worse.
who is after bello? and who is after the guy who is after bello? who is after that guy? think about it dest played poorly at lb so you drop him robinson then had a poor match so you drop him bello them had a poor match so you drop him who is next? sam vine? matt real? you can't just drop people because of a bad match. Bello isn't a guy who should be starting matches they need to have a plan b behind robinson.
I asked you did we get worse or better. You failed to answer and are now trying to deflect from my question.
At least one member of the US Soccer media posy was explicit in their criticism of Berhalter's lineup choices. USMNT pays the price for Berhalter’s ill-advised squad rotation (sbisoccer.com)
Are the 2022 WC groups going to be formed in the same manner as 2018? If that’s the case, I’d be very concerned with the US falling out of the top 16 and ending up in a very difficult group. Everyone seems so infatuated with qualifying that I think they don’t see the long range issues that losing to teams like Panama (or even CRC) creates…
I didnt answer because its a silly question how deep do you think they should go at a position? just a new lb every match and if someone does ok they get another shot but they dont and they're gone forever. they'd be like 10 deep this year at every position lol
Dest and Scally should be the next two options after Robinson at LB, not Bello. IMO that’s a very clear thing. Some people think Paredes is clearly ahead of Bello too — haven’t seen him play enough to comment.
under the idea that you have to drop a player after a bad performance dest is long gone especially as an option on the left. Scally would be an option but one bad performance remember and he'd be out so you need at least 5/6 guys at every spot to get through qualifying my point is bello isn't great but he's also better then what people saw and they know it. They shouldn't have played him with basically backup midfield outside of musah and backups up front. his performance would've magically improved had there been more around him.
You didn’t answer, because you have no argument. You instead ran and deflected from it, because you are nothing other than a sophist.
Fascism is Born from Socialism. Fascism is collectivism. Mussolini, the father of Fascism, was a lifelong member of Italy’s Socialist party and wrote and edited Italy’s Socialist Newspaper, Avanti.
I'm doing a rewatch. It's halftime. Some thoughts: 1) Matt Turner was bad. After the game, I had a suspicion that he didn't play well. Watching again, I thought he was outright bad. His distribution was really poor, as many have noted. But I also think he turned three playable balls into fingertip saves by getting a slow read on them - the double corners and the dipping shot. He also let the ball hop in his box on one of their best opportunities - the looper from Gondola. 2) Thought Shaq was OK. A lot of play came down his side and only one was all that dangerous (the looper). Clearly the best of the backline distributing or coming forward. Fouled a little too much. Got away with the elbow. 3) Thought that Weah didn't see a lot of the ball but started the only halfway threatening plays - a couple of over the tops to Arriola, and a run on goal that Gyasi cut off. Gyasi wasn't good or bad - just there. 4) Too many turnovers from Musah, but also the best runs forward. Lletget was valuable on D, but killed three forward movements with backpasses, including the one that Acosta fumbled and led to the point blank offside, on which he pulled up unmarked on the sideline and chose not to go forward. Acosta, awful with the ball, solid on D. I would praise Arriola for his ultimately pointless hustle and tenacity, but I would just get more of it, so I won't. 5) Zimmerman is the new Long. Makes all sorts of stops. Gives it right back. MacKenzie takes care of the ball, but completes only short passes, and loses his man, especially the looper. Bello .... not awful but not ready.
It is not wrong at all. It is the complete truth. Mussolini was a top member of Italy’s Socialist party. He also was a lifelong writer and then editor for Italy’s socialist newspaper, Avanti. Contempt for the truth ( Hegelian thinking ) does not change the facts of truth. There is no way you can make the claim that Mussolini was a lifelong member of the Socialist party before splitting from the party to start the Fascist party because he differed from them about Italy’s involvement in the First World War. The facts also are all forms of Marxism are the same, antifreedom crap, that does not work and is formulated on unfounded concepts from an invalid hypothesis on economics and historical history. Nothing that comes from the Marxist side is valid. They are all nothing more than tyrannical attempts to steal other people’s property.
thats doesn't tell the whole story though. like 10 minutes in musah has a turnover and it appears to be his fault because all he did was kind of turn around and then back around and the cb stepped up and caused the turnover. what you really should see is him look at arriola and zardes who literally stand there and just stare back at him they literally do not move at all. He then turns to weah who for some reason goes to the otherside of the right back so musah can't get the ball to him. this kind of garbage from those three up front happened more then once and led to a couple of turnovers and made musah play backpasses to avoid turnovers.
Like the play highlighted by the Total Soccer Show guy, where Musah passes to Lletget at midfield, makes the run forward for the give and go to spring the attack, and ........ wait for it ........ you'll never guess what happened ..... Lletget does a one-touch backpass to MacKenzie.
A beautiful argument. It is as if GGG's special talent for reasoned interviews has been translated, in near perfection, to our happy little thread. Orcrist, I salute you.