I must have missed the green players Panama threw together who play for Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig, BvB, etc.
Soto the best finisher of our 9's by some distance. All he does is get in good positions and bury a good % of his chances.
It is just my gut feeling. I take pride on assessing players very quickly. Based on my experience and Knowledge of the game, I can see when a players is special just by one or two touches of the ball. I might be wrong but I don't see anything special with Tim Weah. I think his biggest weaknees is his soccer IQ. I am sure he will get better but I do not see him becoming anything special.
That was about as solid of a performance as we can expect from such a young group that's only played together briefly. By the way...............................for all the grief we've given Berhalter, he's given a ton of USYNT eligible players caps with the full national team since taking over. It's a big list. Just over the last calendar year Dest, Robinson, Richards, Cannon, Adams, McKennie, Otasowie, Johnny, Musah, Reyna, Gioacchini, de la Fuente, Soto, Llanez, Weah, McKenzie, Vines, Araujo, Yueill, Aaronson, Servania, Pomykal, Pulisic, Sargent, Lewis, Ferreira
Based on the last two games and and couple of previous games. Maybe he is great on his league team but. as far as the USMNT, I'd take McKennie or Musah over Adams any day.
To be fair, I'm a big fan of Sargent and think he'd be doing great if he wasn't drowning in the morass that is Werder Bremen, but it is what it is, Sargent looks more well rounded, but less instinctually lethal than he did with the U20's and U17's in 2017. I think he'll rediscover that form given time and a better club, but Soto's been Soto whenever his team has let him play on the field every single time I've watched, or read about it and that's not something that can be really quibbled with or debated. Got high teens in goals two years ago, starred at the U20 WC, Hannover punished him last year and he didnt play at all, now he's scoring again since he's been able to get out of there. Not sure if it will work against competent world class teams or even Concacaf minus Mexico, but it did as a youth player, and at this point what have we got to lose. Agree w/your comment as well. Nothing to argue w/what he does, thus far anyway, which is score, all the time, almost whenever he sets foot on the field, and when it comes to forwards, that's the key ingredient that keeps you on the field.
I agree, Sargent is a more well rounded player who can score and create in tight spaces. He is very good at holding the ball and has a very high IQ. I am sure it is just a matter of time before he becomes a very lethal and prolific striker.
I'm not about to say I'm some tape grinding genius or scout, I just think you're missing a lot in making snap judgements on a player who hasn't played a complete 90 minute game since the summer of 2019. There's lots of material you can watch from the U20 WC in '19 that shows what he's like when he's healthy and can go full 90, or how lethal he can be when he personally put Group Stage Winner Paraguay to the sword at the U17 World Cup 2 years earlier (wonder goal included) at the U17 WC. Plenty of nice material from his Celtic, PSG, and USMNT in 2018 material worth watching too. He's much much better than you think. He's got his issues, primarily right now they are health, and his penchant for appearing or disappearing from matches at times (at least to me), but your issues aren't ones he has, in my opinion. It's more about consistency of influence, and staying healthy.
That is the problem, the more I see him play, the more I am convinced that he is just another Zardes.
Totally agree and I would say Sargent is the better overall player at the moment, but Soto may very well be what we need the most right now. I think Soto's game is also one that easily elevates with better players around him, he works very hard creating and occupying space, makes excellent runs and he puts every chance on frame. Whether he starts on not does not matter at all to me, I feel much more comfortable now knowing that he is at least solid depth.
Maybe he's one of those who needs to play with better players. I suspect Lletget is one of those, given his record with Gals v. his record with Nats.
based on these two games ... you don’t have to drop any of them. It’s the best three man midfield we have ever played, and they just met Musah last week. No one in the pool is an upgrade, unless we want to experiment with just two of them and Reyna as more of a true attacking mid in that Reus/Reyna Dortmund role instead of as a wing tucking in. Even Pulisic should stay as an ace wing wearing #10 the way those three looked.
And? He looks tall, and he looks very different from Ledezma in terms of body type. May as well think that the bearded Rean looks like Miazga.