Are you related to him? I genuinely cannot see any other reasoning why you'd think our CBs have played well.
You guys who played…you don’t remember the scrimmages after tryouts? If the opponent is familiar with one another and you’re incorporating new players and a coach, it can get ugly. These are essentially glorified scrimmages.
The two goals I've seen have been mostly on the fullbacks who are leaving the backline exposed -- they aren't recognizing threats at all. It's not on the CBs to my mind, unless you are expecting star level work.
With no practice, we really, really should just be looking at individual skillsets in this tournament. We're going to look bad. Che and Wiley are exposing the backline, but I'm even hesitant to blame them too much given the lack of practice. But if it is on anyone, it's on them. You can't expect CBs to cover three players. If the fullback lets in the winger behind, the CB has to cover.
That doesn't answer any of my questions. The point of it is that it's a scrimmage? I don't care about the result, I realize it's a meaningless tournament. I just don't get what the point of this exercise is if you're going to hire a coach 3 days before the tournament and then train once. What's the benefit?
I certainly agree that Wiley and Che have been poor, but if we're looking at "individual skillsets", our CBs have been flat poor (though LCB significantly worse)
Not optimal obviously, but they can’t afford to leave opportunities on the table. Scrimmages provide tons of material for coaches.
Nice sequence creates our first shot. Leyva wins the ball back, and plays a nice pass to Gutierrez who beats a player or two and shoots on goal. Not very threatening, but the keeper had to make a save.
After zero or one practice? I wouldn't take anything from this. #17 just skipped past a few Brazilians and unleashed a missile from 30 yds. That was the highlight of the match I think from a US perspective.
Leyva almost scores after a nice cutback. Brazilian keeper had to make his first challenging save of the game.
Hard to evaluate given the circumstances but way too many poor passes to empty space and touches that bounce straight up in the air.
McGlynn has some very good parts to his game. He’s just so slow. If a team can hide him from foot races, he’s great.
On top of what gogorath said I'll add I didn't think he was this decent playing out of the back, heard more about how good Walls, Craig, and others are among the 03s and 04s
Aside from the Brazilian goal in this half, which was a quick strike counter off a turnover, they’ve not done anything offensively in this half. That’s an improvement.