2021 National Team Thread [R]

First rate = Canada, USA, Mexico
Second rate = Panama, Costa Rica (on a downward trend), Jamaica (solely because of the EPL players), Honduras (if they get their sh*t together)
Third rate = Everybody else

For me, from an ES team level perspective, a second rate team is a team who we know we can beat at home and get a draw away.

Panama isn't beating the 5th place South American team and will struggle against Australia or Japan.

El Salvador collapsed when Zavaleta went off and could have still taken a point. Jairo Henriquez could have made it 2-0 at one point. This ES is incredibly limited and did beat Panama already.

 

This scares me because you could make the same memes for Rivas and Martinez who have proven to be completely useless.

Even Rudis Corrales was 10x better

 

Actually the collapse came once the half time subs happened. Darwin should not be getting called up he was at fault on the tying goal. It has become a trend of his to cough up the ball with minimal effort which would explain why his tenure in Houston was awful.

 

Nah, Zavaleta's presence was missed especially on the second Panama goal.

Just consider this: Imagine we had two Zavaleta's at center back, things would be much different

 

Funny enough Dominguez size would have helped but he tends to mistime his jumps.

 

I would pívot away from lackluster I believe it just hammers down the fact of how low our level is compared to the rest of the teams in the Ocho. It’s been said multiple times that outside the starting XI the drop off is huge compared to everyone else, so far none of the subs have made an impact like before so the former strategy of sending fresh legs and run on a tired opponent has been nullified . Another thing that I believe we aren’t taking into account is how this congested schedule has really tired out our guys who aren’t used to having this many competitions going on at once, we’ve seen similar things with the rest of WCQ in which you’ve seen more hiccups that usual to nations who that usually doesn’t happen to. Difference is these nations have the depth to cover for some of it we as we haven’t shown any of that.

Also the USL kids was always a bandaid solution. They weren’t going to fix years of damage alone the local league needs to help as well.

 

*sigh*

El Salvador national team head coach Hugo Perez is interested in becoming an MLS manager, a source told MLSsoccer. No serious conversations with clubs have occurred yet.

Perez is a former US int'l and USYNT head coach. Hasn't been a club head coach yet.https://t.co/NCVL6z4aqT

— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) November 17, 2021

 

The team has terrible off the ball movement. The movements are too predictable and all the lobs and crosses to local players have to be aim directly at them to get it. I get people telling me Enrico can't pass. He can pass it's just most of the players around him don't understand his creative plays. It's what happens when you play with armature players. This is why they can't play offensively they can't make runs. If you watch the earlier matches in the qualifiers Enrico and Roldan will make follow through passes and his teammates are either slow on the reaction or don't realize they're receiving a follow through pass for them to run.

This issue also a problem is defending where they lack tactical knowledge on how they're getting countered. Since they expect a direct pass. They're use to slow futbol, outdated tactics/no tactics, and not playing off the ball movements in their league.

Now for the Panama match Larin was out of his position most of the time and was almost never marking his player. He kept play center back. Enrico, Zavaleta, and Roldan were standouts. I'm noticing the goalkeeper struggles to catch the ball and all his long passes usually fail. He's just fast and aerobatic other than that he's not that good. I'm not surprised like most fans why he's not abroad. Jairo needs to work more on his long passes and crosses if he's going to be consider to play abroad or even last in the MLS. If he's even lucky he will play in 2nd division Mexico.

 

They never shut up he could be having a bad season and people would still want him.

 

So Fito scored a hat trick, is the 3rd top scorer in the Liga Mayor and has the most international goals of all current players but still shouldn't be considered

 

People want him because there is a need. If there wasn't, nobody would be calling for him.

What are the goal scoring stats of ES's current strikers in qualifying please tell me...give me a number

 

Look at the level of competition, that Santa Tecla team is a mere shell of the one that won a few championships just a couple years ago and in the last three encounters they’ve been routed. Besides he can’t even score in international competition at the club level, I sure as hell don’t trust this version of Fito against higher tier competition at the NT level, people are stuck watching highlights instead of the actual games to see how slow everything is.


As for your other comment there will always be a need, and even if filled people will still want Fito because they have that image of the guy years past not what’s in front of them. Also 0 goals from strikers currently.

 

Also so far this Octagonal isn’t much different from the last time we reached the final stages of qualifying most of the goals back in 2010 came from the midfield Rudis only scored once that entire campaign. The 98 squad was where strikers were feasting

 

Look at the comments the usual trash known as Alianza fans bitching. They are too fixated on club football instead of looking at the bigger picture.

 

If Hugo gets an offer from MLS in January he's gone no doubt

Zarco Rodríguez will fill in and call up our savior Fito and El Salvador will win the remaining games to pip Mexico for third