In other news... Puli is not in the hospital, and looked fine and happy - although he did seem to wince at Weah's bear hug lol SCENES at the #USMNT team hotel, including a *very* happy Christian Pulisic (via @USMNT) pic.twitter.com/SPP1JXHXVb— SI Soccer (@si_soccer) November 30, 2022
which is why running the players into the ground is no way to approach a world cup gregggg's tactics are lowering the "long term" viability of this team in this tourney for "short term" glory i.e. "making it out of the group"......his system cannot win a WC, by design.
Too many posts to read through so I may have missed this: is Tyler out for next game due to YC accumulation?
I actually think GGG has been pretty solid. You judge a manager by results and there are some real positives with him. 1. His guys are clearly motivated to show up and play hard for him. Huge. 2. He gets the necessary result when needed. People want to groan about how we looked in WCQ. Bottom line? We qualified. People want to moan about how we looked in the group. Bottom line? We advanced. He also won all those Mickey Mouse cups and the games against Mexico. It's a results business, and he's delivering results. What I hear is a lot of whining about the means, and not enough emphasis on the ends. I imagine USSF is thrilled with the job he's doing. That's more relevant to his extension prospects than clueless Twitter heads who think Reyna is Messi.
Oh unless the shit happened and OMG all the internet experts would forget about their incessant rambling about how bad Berhalter is because he isn't using Reyna.
Or even, Choice 3: Berhalter thinks that Pulisic, Weah, Musah and McKennie give us a better chance to win, starting. Between some hamstring tightness and the game state against Wales, Berhalter thought Morris was a better choice. It was game one, perhaps give him a few more days. Today, because we were winning, Berhalter shaded to defensive subs. Not of that requires personal dislike of Reyna, or that he's severely hurt. It just requires not wanting to play people in positions that aren't their ideal, and valuing some other really good players as slightly better in certain situations.
Gio does not look happy in this video. Nor should he. Has there been a player that was a shoe in for every qualifying game while healthy that suddenly stopped being part of the team?
Anyone remember when we were a second half team in qualifying. And how everyone was saying Greggg was getting the initial tactics/lineups wrong but was making good halftime adjustments. Fun times.
I believe that’s his first yellow. I don’t know if they’re wiped out now, but you wish they would be. No one wants to see their favorite player miss a do-or-die game because of a dumb yellow.
Kellyn Acosta, Tim Ream, Weston McKennie, Sergiño Dest in the first game. Thought he was in that group.
People that have high expectations than you aren’t automatically miserable dude. It’s clear this group have met expectations and everyone deserves some credit. At the same time, we could upgrade the head coach role just like other parts of the pitch like striker.
I don't want any coach for a second cycle, but our overall talent is clearly middle rung in this World Cup, and it is inexperienced. Calling it "********ing monster" is really not quite understanding the talent levels of opposing teams. Our target was rightfully the round of 16, and we made it. But most people here are annoyed we didn't play their favorite player or win by enough. We're not in the 8 most talented teams in this World Cup by a long shot, so if we do make it there, it's an overperformance of talent.
I understand that a player will never be happy to not play as much as he wants especially in a World Cup but being so outwardly mopey is a bad look. Gotta be a professional. Between looking like this off the pitch and his world class level "throw hands up after teammate makes a bad play, then forget to run back on defense" performance against England, I can see why he is not getting many minutes.