The most depressing fact after last night? We still have 3 more years of Jurgen

Jurgen Klinsmann must be a big fan of Jose Mourinho's methods.

1. The game is won by the team who commit fewer errors.

2. Football favors whoever provokes more errors in the opposition.

3. Away from home, instead of trying to be superior to the opposition, it’s better to encourage their mistakes.

4. Whoever has the ball is more likely to make a mistake.

5. Whoever renounces possession reduces the possibility of making a mistake.

6. Whoever has the ball has fear.

7. Whoever does not have it is thereby stronger.

I think Jürgen is attempting to do something similar to what Bayern does by overloading the hell out of one side, the problem is that I don't think he knows how to get the message across so it ends up with us just neglecting usually the left side of midfield with a center mid pretending to play out there but spending 90% of the match tucked in. It creates havoc more for our players than the opposing team.

It's honestly the only thing I can deduce from what he's been doing.

Maybe, but the problem is that we are always overloaded in key zones. Especially in the first half, Beckerman was consistently overloaded in zone 14. He constantly had to choose whether to close down or back off, nor did he know who to mark. That's an impossible situation for any player.

And what confuses me is why he didn't play Dempsey at left mid if the goal was to use the left mid as an auxiliary central player. Dempsey played that role perfectly for Fulham, and there is no reason he can't play it now. It'd allow him to run into the box late, unmarked. It would also allow someone to put a runner next to Altidore, who constantly checks back to the ball. And we'd get slightly more defensive work because Dempsey would actually be wide rather than central. The net effect would be the same defensively.

And about the overloading part of our offensive game overloading requires width, something we don't play with, as well as interplay on one side to create space on the other. The only time it's really worked was Mix's goal against Germany, otherwise, it's a failed strategy. It'd be much better to just throw numbers forward at the counter attack.

I honestly think that Klinsmann doesn't know what he's doing. He tinkers but his tactical nous is nonexistent. He doesn't speak about the game the same way as other managers. It's all very general and nonspecific.

Well said and we're obviously worse off for it.

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What the frick was the point of the tinkering?

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Could see this coming from a mile away. We tinkered with no real purpose.


I think you're right in your assessment of him being a tactical retard but he has guys around him who aren't so it all just blows me away.

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he's spent 1 whole fricking year of a cycle tinkering, and all for what? To return to a team that you played in the WC, but who hadn't played together in quite a while? What the frick was the point of the tinkering?

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"experimentation"