I believe an additional yellow card for Brooks, Bedoya, Johnson, Bradley, Wood, Orozco, Beckerman or Jones will get them suspended for the Semifinal against Mexico when the US beats Brazil.
My take! 1. Overall, I'm pretty proud of this squad. Good test, and definitely not your typical game you go out and play. But outside of a ~10 minute emotional eruption, they seemed to weather the storm and adapt to the game's (de)evolution. 2. Cameron & Brooks continue to impress as a CB pairing. Brooks absolutely deserved MOTM. So happy for him that he rebounded from that Gold Cup performance. 3. Yedlin didn't deserve the first yellow, but that still doesn't make his next decision any more excusable. Frustrating. Yedlin has disappointed this tournament so far, IMO, but he's still clearly the RB you keep working with and projecting to continue growing as a player. 4. I'm really, really unimpressed with Fabian Johnson. I thought this tournament would be a good opportunity to prove he's the man at LB, and one of the team's best players, after a tumultuous post-WC cycle. But I'm just not seeing it. His play looks borderline apathetic at times. It's not terrible, but it's not anywhere near the level he's hyped up to be either. I really didn't like, in particular, how content he was to let Brad Guzan make multiple consecutive saves, instead of throwing his body in there. 5. No complaints in the midfield from me tonight, outside of Zardes' non-finish. Everyone did their work here and put in a good shift. Yes, Jones was gassed. No, Bradley still isn't at the form he needs to be. But everyone in the midfield did a good job adapting to what this game became, and that's all you can ask of them here. 6. Let's talk about Zardes a bit though. This was a good game from him. I know that non-finish is frustrating, but he did tremendous work this evening. Great tracking back, impressive winning the ball out of the air, some half-decent holdup and cutback play, and he made the first goal happen (off a good find by Bradley, by the way). His touch was better than Dempsey's by far tonight, so I'll be interesting to see how many people get on Zardes vs Dempsey. 7. Bobby Wood might have even played better with 10 men vs 11. What a shift. He's still missing some sharpness at the edge of the box, and his decision-making needs to speed up. But dude just puts in work. Plays strong, tough, and with an edge. It bit him on the yellow today, but I love the way Wood played the game today. He still has a lot of room to grow, but he seems to have the mentality necessary to be a big part of this. 8. Nothing new, but: way too many touches just outside (and a few times, inside) the box from Dempsey tonight. From a lot of players, if I'm being picky, but this team still seems to miss out on 2-3 opportunities per game because Dempsey won't get the ball off his damn foot. I get that it's just Dempsey doing Dempsey things, and he is who he is. But it's still costly at times. 9. Orozco for Yedlin is a huge downgrade next round, no matter how much Yedlin has underwhelmed this tourney. Yikes. 10. Impressive from Guzan tonight. Proud of the guy. He has to hear the critics out there, so this was a huge showing. US goalies seem a bit immune to club form, for whatever reason. 11. Bonus #11 thought: this center official was a total embarrassment. US exacerbated things a bit for sure, but he lost control of a good 20 minutes of this match, at least. He escalated things when the game would have managed itself otherwise. Officiated his feelings more than the game. Total embarrassment of an official. Hope to never see him again.
Brooks has been great the past two games. Dempsey is still our best attacker. Jones is all heart. Zusi did really well when he came in. FJ is a cipher, still. I'm really bothered by how the entire team and bench lost their composure. We're lucky Paraguay was CONMEBOL Guatemala.
Sooooo are there still people out there that think Besler is better than Brooks? Also, my boy DY........... that was so so so dumb
We're not good. Very disorganized. Not sure what the plan was in the second half. I've watched a lot of soccer and that looked like "no plan" to me. Weak offense. Not impressed.......-again.
This is the 1st time U.S. advances out of group stage at a major tournament after losing the opening match. pic.twitter.com/D735SiJJJH— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 12, 2016
You're not completely wrong, but having to play with 10 men its going to be a little ragged and ugly.
I'm at a disadvantage watching the match on a cheesy stream with Russian announcers for most of it, but it seemed that much of our fouls were unnecessary. Very disappointed in DY but I don't think it's all that much of a downgrade b/c whoever replaces him won't be giving the ball away nearly as often. I'm just not as impressed with Yedlin as everyone else around here seems to be. It was OK during the WC because he was coming on as a late sub wing without being a defensive liability, running with the ball in space. It seems like as a fullback he folds so easily under pressure, makes bad decisions and leaves himself with no good options. I may be wrong so I don't mind if someone tells me why.
I was at the game and just left. The referee was atrociously bad. When he came up hurt the crowd got a kick. Zardes muff in front of the net was unbelievable. Everyone was like in shock at how bad that was. There were actually quite a number of Paraguayan fans and they were very nice and pleasant. Great crowd.
John Brooks. Do people still think he doesn't bring his A game for the Nats? That guy is an absolute beast
I was referring to all the midfielders who now carry a yellow. EDIT TO ADD: And does anyone doubt Pulisic would be a better right back than Yedlin?