PBP: MLS N&A Running USMNT and other International Games Thread {R}

Good goal from Mexico. No attack from us whatsoever for nearly 20 minutes. Bad combo.

 

This is like that 5-0 game from 2009. Stu Holden was in that game and might be able to give us some insight.

 

I know this version of the USMNT for the Gold Cup isn't the 'A' Group of players, but frankly, I can't picture the 'A' team players doing much better in the first half than this group has done. We've got 10 months to get this right...can it be done? Will it be so?

 

Tyler Adams with the giveaway at midfield that leads to sustained Mexican pressure. A pressure not seen since the explosive diarrhea I suffered this spring in Cancun.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07/06/usmnt-mexico-pressure-gold-cup/

 

Luna has been silent. Needs replacing if he can’t be dynamic.

 

How tf was that not a handball? The rules just make no sense!

 

I love Concacaf. Concacaf is hilarious.

 

The sub and formation change has been good so far. Let's see how Mexico counters.

 

VAR will give this.

 

Luna trying to do too much. But it’s not enough. Adam’s off, he’s been poor, too. Probably needed the Pulisic rest to be fair.

 

I vote to keep the non-oral VAR explanation in all soccer. Hand signals so much more dramatic and universal than words.

 

Mexico has a long way to go to be ready for next year...

 

USA look so haphazard with the ball. I know there's a sense of urgency at this stage of the match, but gosh...they really looked sloppy due to fatigue, or playing in a frenzy...I don't know, but it doesn't look like anything that inspires confidence in me that the team knows what it's doing when it has the ball in the opponent's half of the field.

 

Handball. Not a ball hitting a plant hand.

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— Taylor Twellman (@TaylorTwellman) July 7, 2025

 

Tillman and Luna hardly ever got the ball in space. Tillman put in a shift though.

 

I gave up when the team couldn't get their shit together last year. We knew what the windows would look like and likelihood of full teams getting good competition or building cohesion were not going to happen after that.