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re: Goal.com is going after Jurgen
Posted on 10/16/14 at 1:45 pm to uway
Posted on 10/16/14 at 1:45 pm to uway
If Johannsson was injured then he shouldn't have made the 23.
Boyd was on really good form going into that camp. He was playing the hold up striker role really well in the Austrian bundesliga. I was really skeptical from the start with him being cut and all, seeing as he was the closest thing to an Altidore replacement we could muster. Maybe Boyd hadn't shown much in previous USMNT appearances, but neither had Green, Yedlin, Davis, etc. There is a lot that goes into formulating a team. Davis was taken for his set piece ability. Boyd should have been taken for his big-man hold up play.
I disagree with #2. Again, if your whole strategy revolves around holdup play, you need a backup holdup striker. Say Jozy gets fatigue and needs a replacement in the 80th minute? Or picks up a knock over a month long tournament? All very possible scenarios. It was very shortsighted of Klinsmann not to bring Boyd. I can get behind your argument in part, but only because Johannsson should have been dropped for Boyd, and not necessarily Wondo.
Lucky, I try to be a realist. While it hurts me at times to agree with TN (due to the absurdity of so many of his posts), when he's right he's right, and I can get over my pride and admit that.
PS - the SPL sucks chode
Boyd was on really good form going into that camp. He was playing the hold up striker role really well in the Austrian bundesliga. I was really skeptical from the start with him being cut and all, seeing as he was the closest thing to an Altidore replacement we could muster. Maybe Boyd hadn't shown much in previous USMNT appearances, but neither had Green, Yedlin, Davis, etc. There is a lot that goes into formulating a team. Davis was taken for his set piece ability. Boyd should have been taken for his big-man hold up play.
I disagree with #2. Again, if your whole strategy revolves around holdup play, you need a backup holdup striker. Say Jozy gets fatigue and needs a replacement in the 80th minute? Or picks up a knock over a month long tournament? All very possible scenarios. It was very shortsighted of Klinsmann not to bring Boyd. I can get behind your argument in part, but only because Johannsson should have been dropped for Boyd, and not necessarily Wondo.
Lucky, I try to be a realist. While it hurts me at times to agree with TN (due to the absurdity of so many of his posts), when he's right he's right, and I can get over my pride and admit that.
PS - the SPL sucks chode
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Posted on 10/16/14 at 3:33 pm to cwil177
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PS - the SPL sucks chode
Here here
Posted on 10/16/14 at 3:39 pm to cwil177
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PS - the SPL sucks chode
Continuing to call it by the old name definitely makes you sound informed enough to judge its quality.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 3:57 pm to cwil177
I want to throw this point into the mix: maybe JK's Plan B in the event of a Jozy injury/substitution was the plan he later implemented, going 4-5-1 with Dempsey as the lone striker. Maybe he thought it was more effective than going with Boyd as a straight replacement. Although perhaps not as effective as our Plan A, it did, in all actuality, get us through the so-proclaimed "Group of Death", which is a result everyone would have accepted before the WC began (with, and especially without, Jozy).
I haven't had the opportunity to watch a lot of Austrian league games and can't comment on the strength of that league or Boyd's form prior to the WC. I know he was scoring goals for his club. But I can say that JK was in a position to judge Boyd's form at camp. In the end, he made the decisions necessary to get us through a group that percentage-odds said we would not get through.
I haven't had the opportunity to watch a lot of Austrian league games and can't comment on the strength of that league or Boyd's form prior to the WC. I know he was scoring goals for his club. But I can say that JK was in a position to judge Boyd's form at camp. In the end, he made the decisions necessary to get us through a group that percentage-odds said we would not get through.
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