Happy Father’s Day, dads. You are worth more than what society tells you. Hopefully the USMNT wins one for the dads today.
Yeah, I can't decide if this is a sign once and for all that he's utterly clueless, or a sign that he's trying to balance things between this match and the Saudi match. Some of it's fine, some of it is nuts.
If we were playing any good team with that set of starters i would be concerned. But we are playing T&T so the only real concern is that we beat ourselves. But that is defiantly a possibility with this group of stumblebums.
It’s not that surprising. Tillman, Luna, Richards, Ream, and LDLT are out there. That’s basically the core of the group.
at this point, my hope is that the players that suck are found out in this tourney and banished forever....theres a lot of them, too!!
Both Tyler and Johnny out is awful, but that's not Poch's fault. At least I'll have a Berhalter to shake my fist at unfairly, so that will be comforting.
Looking beyond the noncognitivist responses, what the lineup tells us is that 1) they are expecting a bunker and thus have McGlynn and Berhalter out there to be threats from distance, 2) they trust Freese more than Turner, 3) they need leadership (Ream is captain instead of Richards), and 4) they view Pat as a better option against the athletic back line of T&T.
This article is a statistical analysis of how the Gold Cup is its own style of soccer. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45502051/usmnt-gold-cup-mexico-canada-getting-concacafed It’s also Pride Month, so shoutout to all the LGBTQ fans! You, too, are worth more than society tells you!
Ream over McKenzie is a head scratcher. Ream will not be at next summers World Cup. If he is, we’re toast.
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I think Haji Wright or Paxten deserves a spot at right wing over McGlynn. (Also Griffin Yow and Zendejas, who are not here.)
If Ream were playing as well as he was, say, in 2023, I could see starting him, because hey, it’s only a year to the World Cup. Maybe he’ll hold up. Now, I don’t understand it. Besides my DC, I’ve been watching more Charlotte than any other club this year, so I feel qualified to say Ream is no longer good enough, and isn’t going to improve in the next year for sure. A real head scratcher. The best explanation, albeit still a poor one, is that Poch wants Ream’s leadership and passing because for him, the Gold Cup is 99% about results and like 1% about prep for next year.
then why did they say he was sick? also that doesnt jibe with poch not wanting dual nats on the fence.....and only wanting players ready to die for the shirt..... most importantly - WHY ON EARTH would it be ok for downs to come for the just the friednlies but not ok for pulisic to do the same???????????????