Sure he caught the passing lanes but there a couple of instances when the LM was beaten and in the ground and Kenny didn't hustle back to cover for his teammate. Bottom line, we need to see more of him.
Wut? The only think Jozy is good at finishing is that hands on the head, how did I miss that first touch/obvious scoring chance/sitter into the stands/nearly a goal, look. He has perfected finishing that look. He was a more lethal finisher at 16. He had a near unstoppable near post shot that he could get off as quick as Fernando Torres. He had a rocket across the body shot running to his right. He could even tuck in a nice header. He found that skill again in Dutchland. Now it is probably gone for good. He's forgotten which way the goal faces.
The only player who really impressed me all that much was McCarty. I thought he was clearly MOTM. Corona, Rowe, Dwyer, and Acosta all had some nice plays but did enough bad things for me to have enough questions about them to the point where I want to see them more.
But he's a more complete player now and the best forward in the US pool. I know because Matt Doyle told me so.
Occasionally? At shooting distance, it's a coin flip for Guzan at this point. Put it this way, I absolutely loved that he was in goal when my PL club needed a win for UCL. Didn't you?
Put it this way, Guzan's been on garbage teams for years, shipping goals in a league that none of the top MLS GK's are even sniffing. I'll admit, he's had a bad run of form, though most of the last year he's been glued to the bench. On the other hand, Guzan has over a decade of experience in the EPL, despite being on Aston Villa and Middlesborough, a longevity comparable only to Timmy Howard, the GK starting over him. And Howard went through his own EPL decline, people said he was done, and then rejuvenated his career in Colorado. I expect that we'll see a similar rejuvenation with Guzan. Because he is not as bad as "playing-for-crap-EPL-team"-Brad Guzan would indicate, just as Howard wasn't as bad as his final Everton days indicated.
I say this after every friendly but there are some good things I liked and bad things l disliked. Can't really over-analyze things either way- good or bad. It just makes me laugh when I read people say things like Dwyer's career is going to be ______."fill in the blank". The guy just scored his very first goal in his very first match. We should be happy for that and happy for him. Not try to be Madame Cleos and try to predict his future. And that goes for most players on this team. Lets see how they progress and mature together in cohesion as the games go by. Not go with knee- jerk reactions.
McCarty was, like MB, too casual with the ball with very little help behind. I counted at least three hospital ball deliveries from McCarty to Acosta which would have been taken advantage of by a better team. I was not so impressed with him. If you are going to be sloppy then don't put the team at risk of an immediate counter. I need to see him operate under a heavy press from a high speed counter attacking team to get a better measure of how he will look in the midfield when the games matter because Ghana gave us more space than we will ever see at a world cup.