Aaronson and Reyna. Jesus off. Mckennie off. Egg completely outcoached. Running MMA into the ground didn't help when he had Aaronson and Reyna available, either.
Where are all the Berhalter sympathizers? MMA is dead. It is what we thought it was. Zero creativity. Remove Musah for Reyna and Ferreira garbage ass for BA. MOVE WEAH TO STRIKER!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the running finally caught up with them. They look exhausted. You can see it in the body language. It comes down to physiology.
This is the game that US abandoned the principle of discipline. Jesus. Unacceptable. You cannot dominate play like this but be down 0-2 at the half. The Dutch aren’t even playing. They just know the US can’t score. And they know they’ll score on the only two plays they created on the entire game.
This is NOT Gregg's fault. This game is about the poor touch of our players. We have had numerous opportunities around the Netherlands box, and nearly every one of them has been wasted by a terrible receiving touch by our players. Gregg cannot trap balls for the players on the field. And yes, Pulisic needs to score that early on. He was wide open.
Gio on for Musah. Give Jesus 10 minutes and then bring on Sargent. If Sargent isn't fit, then move Weah to striker and bring on Aaronson to play WF.
With their a-mid sitting underneath two forwards, Dutch remind of the Philadelphia Union. Get numbers centrally then finish.
Weird universe… Gio could come in and make a difference. Jesus wasn’t up to the speed and Musah has been the only midfielder that’s been able to find the holes to be able to recieve and turn. Pulisic miss looming large.
Overall I do think the Dutch are superior and it would not have been surprising to lose to them, what is most disappointing is the issue of tired legs when Aaronson and Reyna both have had way too many little minutes this WC. So that's a big miss on GGGs part for sure.
How many times did our center backs give the ball away with errant passes and needlessly homerun attempts? Including the one leading to the 2nd goal? Simply possessing the ball is valuable in such moments.
G has zero answers and zero changes while Reyna and Aaronson sit on the bench and he throws a well out of form Jesus into the XI who you can't even play the fooking ball to. MMA is begging for an outlet to play to with some composure. And Gio is just an afterthought. And now we waited until it's probably too late to even give him a fighting chance.
Let's get a coach who can find someone who can cross a ball, take a corner and score a couple goals. There must be someone out there. I didn't expect to get out of the group but once you do, anything can happen. It's not that the Dutch are so great here, it's that our guys couldn't break down their defense.
That terrorism is systematic starting at U.S. Soccer HQ and it still exists. Until THAT paradigm changes, we still mucked up.