2022 FIFA WC Qualifying - Mexico vs United States; March 24, 2022

As stated before if things go as planned that’s how it should happen, the old guard moves on the new generation takes over, the problem is when your Raul Jimenez, Funes Mori, Henry Martin, etc simply aren’t scoring, we’re stuck in no man’s land with no goals hence why people are calling for the dinosaur who seems to be scoring well.

 

The France team was in trouble years in 2006 back as they qualified but lack spark so the coach threw a hail Mary and brought a young player who had been on the outside named Frank Ribery who was tearing it up with the U-21s. The team had a great world cup finishing runner-up. In 2014, the new coach tried it again with Befami Gomis and the team struggled.

Point is who is the top attacking player on U-23, bring him in. I would also bring in the top domestic scorer for LigaMx.

 

Then we should bring Chofis López who has more goals in the last 2 seasons than HH, Lozano and Herrera combined, all of them who play in UEFA comps.

 

What?

 

If I’m not mistaken the top 10 leading scorers in ligamx are foreigners, that sure doesn’t help.

 

Being devils advocate

The argument is that consideration should be given to Javier cause he has 2 goals this MLS season and I believe 19 last. Chofis López had around the same goals than Lozano, Tecate and HH combined last year in the same league as Hernandez

 

Idk but I’m not looking at Lozano, Tecatito, HH for their goal scoring abilities, that’s just me though..

 

I am indifferent at this point. However, with the discussion of Hernandez becoming toxic and exhausting, bringing him in at this point of qualifiers would be the breaking point if the current team. Remember, they took him out of the 2014 hex which coincidentally lead to qualifying for the World Cup. Make of it what you will.

 

Our top U23 forwards are Aguirre, Santi Muñoz, Santi Giménez, Macías and Dupuy. Neither are going to change the dynamic of the NT. There’s Flores but he hasn’t even played a single minute on the main team.

I’d criticize Tata if there was a deserving youngster he was excluding but there really isn’t.

 

Who says he would be toxic? you have every previous MNT coach praising him, how would online/media arguments about Chicharo even matter to the team itself, how would that be the breaking point? Some of the points you make are awfully lazy takes I read on twitter all the time. Yes Herrera took over and called a primarily domestic lineup without euros to play against New Zealand then ended up calling up the euro based players for the wc anyway.

 

You must have issues understanding sarcasm.... Nice try though, try again. Pinché pendejo

 

I think Osorio would’ve done a lot better than Tata, he actually studies the opponents and changes as needed to the opponent, but his issue was he didn’t give continuance when it was needed.

 

por favor, lazy takes? You have the Chicharo fan base echoing the exact same thing when one tries to have an objective discussion but they quickly end up in “Argentina, …”. There are players in Conmebol who score on Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay all the time and no one says that they scored on them.

 

I don't think you've seen him play for MLS this season if you think Funes Mori or Jimmenez wouldn't do the same. Kinda sad how the benchmark is now how many goals you can score in a league everyone has been shitting on for years and years. At least Vela proved he can do it against non MLS team while he was in LAFC

 

And Chicharito was still benched for Peralta. You forget during that time Chicharito was in a goal drought for a year

 

The point is both Funes Mori and Jimenez would do no worse than chicharito in MLS right now this isn't even debatable. Once again, when was scoring MLS goals a benchmark for calling up players? Why make an exception for Chicharito? Yes, he was the top scorer but Guardado was also a good player too, but no one wants him in the starting lineup. Why make an exception for Chicharito if we all want old farts out? This is no different than old Salcido a few years back, who was SOLID in his prime.

 

Who cares. He's not better than Jimenez in 2022, and if you Bench Jimenez at this time.You might crush his confidence coming off of a horrific injury..I say Let him play and if we go down. We go down knowing our best players played.

 

More like no improvement at all.

 

I’d love to say that with 100% confidence but I have my doubts, but we truly will never know it’s a moot point. I’ll just go “enjoy” another scoreless draw vs powerful Honduras

 

Funes Mori is no worse than Chicharito at this point. He has been more consistent and scored goal in better leagues than Chicharito currently.

 

pretty sure funes mori is up there with jimenez for goals scored for club post 2018 world cup. chicharito hasn't been consistent in europe the last year or so he was there. he was pretty much declining and then joined MLS