I'm flying out to Korea on the 16th .... so will hopefully watching the game at JFK. Going for 3 weeks then my in laws will fly back with the kids for X-mas. haha wife is already like they better win don't want you annoyed on a 20 hour flight.
He just does not rate him good enough for the real Seleccion. Hopefully next month in the Non-FIFA friendly he is given a chance and does well against Mexico.
🚨🇨🇴 James Rodríguez está en duda para el partido de mañana entre São Paulo y Santos por una molestia muscular. Sin embargo, su viaje para unirse a la Selección, POR AHORA, se mantiene. pic.twitter.com/O32UbWGnPY— Julián Capera (@JulianCaperaB) November 11, 2023
If James has any kind of lingering injury they should just not play him against Brazil if he's to play at all. We have a squad and we need to have options other than James and this would be a good time to rely on that while also not pushing him if he's borderline. Play Carrascal or go without a 10 (I cringe at what our midfield will look like) but although I think we're much better with James playing, I'm tired of our managers being ass and not able to create a midfield that can control games unless James is playing.
They are making it seem like he will be available for Thursday. But we all know this is an on going novela that can have twists and turns at any moment. https://www.eltiempo.com/deportes/f...ia-disponible-para-jugar-contra-brasil-825213
Cucho? Wowsers. Probably won't play just like Cassiera did not play but I am stoked he is finally getting his chance to at least train with the A team during qualifiers. Sad to see Cassiera get injured though.
Cucho does a better job at putting shots on goal in so many different ways. Especially when he cuts in and shoots from the outside on the left wing. Santos Borre seems to need good service to put a decent shot on goal and cannot create shots at different angles on his own creatively as much as Cucho can.
Cucho has a lot of swagger I’m not a fan because he is another guy that seems positionless as he is not a 9 nor a winger but it wouldn’t surprise me if he scores cuz he has that I’m gonna show you mentality
Cucho won't see a minute of play. you can bank that. Expect to see the usual Borre. And Lorenzo should be giving Cordoba or Sini some solid minutes before Cucho.
Cucho has the most match fitness. Wouldn’t be bad to replace Arias. Doubt that Borre will be benched unless Falcao magically starts scoring every week for his club
Replace Arias for Cucho? just how do you see that these are 2 similar players? Arias offers a TON more positioning options and his work rate both on and off the ball, offense and defense are difficult to just swap with any player, let alone Cucho. Also I'm not going to knock down MLS players but it's a hard league to figure out if being a stud there equates to grandness during a qualifier. Look at the Peruvian Ruidiaz who has has a stellar MLS career and can't find the net for his NT. I don't think we've ever seen anything noteworthy coming from an MLS call up. A few guys like Atuesta (no longer there) and Borrero have grabbed my attention as a possible good fit but both are injured. Let's not forget Cucho wasn't in the last call up and just got in to this one based on Casierra's injury.
Ruidiaz is good but no one ever thought he was the best striker in MLS or an MVP candidate. He is also an old man. Cucho is arguably the best modern #9 in the League, is an MVP candidate and is still only 24 with his peak years ahead of him. But yes, Being great in MLS and then contrasting that by having the pressures and the defenses he face with the National Team is way different. Like a totally different sport. That said, Duran was not as good as Cucho in MLS and he seems to be transitioning fine to the Senior team so there's that we can say about MLS.
We also have to remember Cucho was scoring goals against the Barcelonas and Real Madrids of the world so he has that on his resume too.
The narrative is though that if he is tearing up the mediocre League with defenses that are not up to par it is hard to try and predict how he will do against better defenses. He has scored goals against very good teams and defenses as well so we have to take that into account too.
the amount of time and space Hernandez or anyone gets in MLS is completely criminal and something absolutely no one would get in WCQ. Even against the more crap teams like Peru or Venezuela
Put him in with 20-30 minutes to go when everyone is gassed and I can see that space happening in a hot/humid day. But Lorenzo starts to swap out at about the 85th minute.
Cucho fits better then Borre for how we have been playing, although we can question if MLS is a high level Borre has never been a big goal scorer and won't ever be which is also fine in the right system. They're different players Borre is good but not if we want him scoring a ton of goals and playing wide more, Cucho profiles much better but also is pretty good off the ball defending when needed. IDK Lorenzo does weird stuff and I doubt he drops Borre, but I'd much rather seen Cucho in our system then Cordoba who we really should only be using if we are down and want to fire crosses into the box.