What is your preferred starting XI and formation against Cuba?

I'd cap tie Yarbrough.

I think he's been pretty mediocre lately.

bradley back to dm

mix in as Cm

I wanna see Zardes up top with Bacon. Gyasi is better as a pure attacker, not a midfield shuttler. It also allows Dempsey to play in the hole as a no.10, he's our most creative and technical player, give him freedom to create and also make secondary runs into the box.

Eta: I've also noticed that where Bradley is lined up on a stat sheet is a moot point because even he has said that he will play his style game no matter where he's lined up. Even when he's tip of the diamond he's still dropping to start play from the back etc.. His alignment on paper doesn't rustle my jimmies like it used to.

I'm not sure it's possible to have a two forward setup with Dempsey in the ten position.

I like the combo of AJ and Deuce up top - both possess quick 1 touch creativity that the rest of our attack lacks. From what I've seen so far from them they link up very well. And when Zardes was in the game with them it freed him up along the left to take on defenders 1v1 and our attack became more of a 4-3-3. That's also a shitload of speed down the left

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his fanboys will be like we told you soooooooo.

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These exist?

Would really like to see Mix as CM with Deuce and Bacon up top. That's a very creative bunch. Maybe one day...

Because I think Dempsey is extremely lazy. At least both AJ and Zardes will give 100%

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Normally I'd agree with you, but I think Dempsey has easily been our best player for this tournament and has had some beautiful touches when he's out there. He seems to be putting in his fair share of effort.

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I strongly disagree. He has made a few nice plays with the ball, bit he has been far from our best player. Out of our forwards, I think Aron has been better. Johnson has been much better. I'm just not interested in seeing Dempsey play for us again, especially when we have a healthy Altidore.