Who do you want to see against Turkey?

I'd love to see the blackmouth at LB, but I know it's not happening.

Lest we forget that BocaJuniors played very well at leftback in the Confederations Cup.

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Howard

Bocanegra-Gooch-DeMerit-Spector

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This

That's where it changes for me...

Dempsey-Edu-Torres-Donovan (not gonna happen, but I can dream. Edu and Torres work together really great at center mid)

Jozy-Buddle (with Herc as a super sub off the bench)

Michael Bradley has always been solid. It's true.

I'd love to see Torres starting though, which won't happen. But he's the truest center mid we have. He's fricking fantastic in possession.

if Bob Bradley keeps Grown-arse Man EJ over either Herc or Buddle, he deserves to lose his job.

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But he's the truest center mid we have

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No way. Bradley is our best CM. Torres would get destroyed physically playing in a box to box role. You have to pair Torres with someone more physical so as to free him up to sling the ball around. That's why the Edu-Torres pairing worked so well. Edu retrieved the ball, sent a square pass to Torres who got our offense moving.

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I'd love to see Hahnemann get some time in goal. Guzan looked shitty when he was in position to stop a goal. Especially that last one where he was beaten at near post (the only angle he had), yet Guzan opened his body up as if protecting the entire net.

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Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of talk about it, but he was disappointing last night.

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From reports it look like BocaJuniors will play leftback tomorrow

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Bob is really going to do it, isnt he? Jonathon Bornstein, our starting left back in the freaking world cup.

blackmouth at LB would be legitimate

I thought Bocanegra was still recovering from surgery...

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Health and fitness concerns on the back line, however, may force Bradley’s hand. Though defender Oguchi Onyewu dismissed reports he looked rusty in a 4-2 loss Tuesday to the Czech Republic, his performance during those 65 minutes of action suggested otherwise. Despite encouraging news emanating from U.S. Soccer and Onyewu himself during seven months of recovery and rehab from surgery to repair a torn patellar tendon, he’s going to need time and luck to even approach a state of sharpness when the U.S. opens World Cup play against England.

Also on the mend is captain Carlos Bocanegra, who three weeks ago underwent sports hernia surgery. He sat out the Czech Republic game, as did many of the regulars, and could fill in for Onyewu in the middle, play alongside him, or line up at left back, as he did most of the time this past season for French club Rennes and in the latter stages of last year’s Confederations Cup. Or he might not play at all.

“His fitness is good,” said Bradley. “Every day he feels a little bit better in terms of getting past the hernia surgery. The time frame you normally see with that injury is such that we have great confidence about how he’ll continue to progress over the next stretch.”

There’s a domino effect in play if Onyewu and/or Bocanegra can’t go, though there are other central options in Clarence Goodson and Jay DeMerit. Yet DeMerit has been bothered an abdominal strain as well as by eye problems that affect his depth perception. He and Onyewu formed a nice partnership in the Confederations Cup but Bradley may not be able to give that combination another test run before the England game.

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