Review: USA - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Player Ratings

So Cameron is flop of the match besides Jones who played Sunday.

Can anybody think of a reason? I've never seen Cameron with a flop rating before. Maybe the food n Bosnia does not agree with him.

Memo to Klinsi...you can fool some of the people some of the time.....

 

Hard to give Brooks a 7. The defense got torched several times, and he was at fault on 1 or 2 of the goals. great upside on the kid, but a 5 performance today, if that's what we're rating. Also, Castillo deserved that 7, for calming down the left side when he came in.

 

What would Jozy have to do to ge a 10? Other than that I agree with almost all of the ratings

 

Howard - 7, defense let him down
Evans - 6, didn't look out of place
Brooks - 5.5, some nice passing out of the back. Remember, Dzecko is probably a top 20 forward
Cameron - 5, OK, so he's better at DM for us
FJ - 6.5
Bradley - 8.5, just his customary solid play. Can we bubble wrap him and open June 1st?
JJ - 5.5
EJ - 4, now this may seem harsh, but...he doesn't really track back well. He had some great opportunities in the first 60 minutes and did nothing until Jozy gifted him the pass. Look back at the first half...he was where attacks were slowed and stopped. He's a good MLS player, but is just too inconsistent at this level. And did I mention the giveaway?
Mix - 5 muscled off the ball too much. BH controlled the middle when he was in.
Bedoya - 6 decent wing play and he tracks back
Jozy - 9.5, the only negative was his pass to EJ when EJ didn't make the run. I don't think BH wants to see him again. His touch has really improved along with his consistency. His first strike was just pure striker. Easily, up to this point, the best striker the US has ever produced, and he's only 23.
Corona - 6
AJ - 7, don't we all want to see more of this kid? His through ball was pure class.
Kljestan - 6, looked more solid than usual
Castillo - 4.5, sorry, but no matter how good someone looks going forward, a LB, especially for the USMNT, HAS to play some defense.
Parkhurst - 5.5, better than expected at this level

JK - takes a team to europe, against a team that will win it's qualifying group, without Dempsey, Donovan, Omar, or Besler and wins. Not bad.

 

Your ratings overall are fine.

That said, you're being way too easy on Brooks, probably because he's a prospect. Judging him by the same standard as everyone else, he didn't play well. He was of major fault on the first goal as it turned out. Johnson started it all, but Howard's save gave Brooks a chance to get back, yet he chose to spend that time appealing for offsides, and then didn't commit to getting to the line after he did start running. The 2nd goal I'll give him a pass for the most part because he was pushed, but he could have played that better by posting up the defender instead of running at the ball. 2-3 goals he was partially responsible for allowing, that's a lot.

The other one who I think you were easy on was Diskerud. He made some very poor decisions than rushed leading to costly turnovers, and I don't remember him involved in the attack or ball winning much. He's had many better days.

 

I think a 6 is about right for Mix. He started slowly, but did some nice defensive work. He sprung Altidore on a breakaway and was denied a stone-cold PK. The two goals in the first half can be attributed to individual errors, not necessarily team defense. And Bosnia's strikers are just that damn good.

But we're splitting hairs. Any ratings that don't have MB90 and Jozy in the 8-9 range are, IMHO, wrong.

 

Other than the obvious Jozy and MB, Johansen was brilliant. His first touch and ability to change direction with a burst, 0-60 in a step is something we haven't seen before. He and Jozy up to are hell to deal with.

 

Be a dual national eligible and switch to the US and play your first match.

 

Agreed, completely deserves a 10, Jozy did everything. If this wasn't a 10 rated performance, then I am curious to see what critics think someone has to do to deserve a 10 rating?

 

Howard - 6

Evans - 6

Cameron - 6

Brooks - 6

F. Johnson - 6

Jones - 5 - victim of multiple hard tackles and they took a physical toll.

Bradley - 8 - Typical MB performance, but I thought I'd rate him high for once.

Bedoya - 6

Diskerud - 6

E. Johnson - 4.5

Altidore - 9

Castillo - 6

Johannsson - 6.5

Corona - 6 -

Kljestan - 6

Parkhurst - 6

Wood - nr

 

i thought jones and mix were terrible. they were both turning the ball way too much, mix was outmuscled alot and when he did have the ball, he never opened the field or did anything useful.

 

He also won a clear penalty on a great turn and 99 percent of refs calk the penalty. That call is made and you are probably singing a different tune.

 

I disagree. The result doesn't have to be flawless, but it's fair to expect the occasional '10' in terms of decision making. Jozy's blatant screw-ups where the layoff to no-one, and he had a late game play where someone (i think Johannsson) laid it out to him wide left, and he almost seemed surprised to received it, took too many touches, and hit it way out wide (past the 18 yard box, and nothing useful came of it).

It's fair to criticize those decisions even if he played his best game in a USMNT jersey. MOTM, but shy of a 10 is reasonable.

 

On, Mix I want to say he's gotten good at drawing fouls instead of just losing possession. He needs to work ore on riding those challenges and maintaining possession though. you could tell he had some good ideas, though. I would of liked to see him play with Johannsson in EJ's place in the formation we began the game with. Hope he isn't too disappointed at being pulled at half time.

Brooks got punked by Dzeko and Ibisevic but he broke up two breakaways by himself. I have only seen Besler do that in recent memory. That shows great athleticism and reading of the game.

Bedoya had one attacking moment the entire time he was on the field. He tracked back well but I expected a bit more. The wide midfielders have to have some end product for the 4231 formation to work out. EJ and Bedoya haven't shown enough to start there in big games. Johannnsson can play anywhere along the attacking 4 it seems, so, that's a good thing. Zusi and his crossing is also preferable to Bedoya and EJ on the wings at this moment.

FJ looked like he was a bit out form on the defensive side of the ball, balla in midfield, though.

Unless we play a 442 I think we will have at least one(Jonhson at LB) or two starting 11 quality players on the benchfor the wide midfield positions. Which is great.

 

Cameron has rarely been good at CB for us. He is a DM.

 

Shoot that time in the first half he was clear at the top of the goalie box. Also made a mess of that nice pass from Bacon.

 

Fabian deserves higher than a 6. That through ball...The guy is so silky in the final third. I don't know what the heck JK is gonna do with Jozy, Dempsey, Donovan, Bacon, and Fabian. Bacon as super-sub with Fabian at LB? Damn...I'm so excited about this team offensively.

 

Jermaine Jones played like absolute garbage.

 

He looked pretty bad for the most part.

I watched the match with my father and he constantly ragged on him. I tell him he usually plays well in Germany for Schalke but he does not believe it.

 

I think he deserves a 10 but folks were saying that he should have been more greedy and take that chance that he laid off to Johnson for the assist. He made the easy, correct and intelligent play.