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re: God's Country vs. Hoduras Game Thread

Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:20 pm to
Posted by Sheep
Neither here nor there
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Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:20 pm to
I'm happy to get the win..... buuuuuuuuuuuttttttt.....

Anybody but Tim Howard in goal, and Jerry Bengston at forward for Honduras, and we give up 5 or 6 goals.

That's frightening to give up that many opportunities to Honduras' B team.

A few takeaways for me:

- I have NO IDEA what Klinsmann sees in Beckerman and Edu that he doesn't see in Bradley. There was a noticeable difference in ability when Bradley came in.
- Beasley is a least a step faster than anyone else in our player pool, Donovan included. He looked like he was shot out of a cannon on that one run down the sideline. He really didn't seem to be "getting it" tactically, even as much as Shea... but sonovabitch is he fast.
- I enjoyed Dempsey's creativity, but there were a couple times that it looked like he could have made the simple play, got cute and didn't connect. It's a fine line that you have with every creative player.
- For the first time under Klinsmann, I saw actual organization. There was a visible difference in play from the 4-1-4-1 to the 4-2-3-1 at the end.

It's really hard to get a read on the game, given the conditions. I'm glad we won, but I'm a little concerned that we could have EASILY lost by a few goals to the weakest opponent we've faced since the group stage of the Gold Cup.

Let's see what Tuesday brings.
Posted by hendersonshands
Univ. of Louisiana Ragin Cajuns
Member since Oct 2007
160115 posts
Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:31 pm to
How did Daniel Williams look?
Posted by thenry712
Zasullia, Ukraine
Member since Nov 2008
15795 posts
Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:39 pm to
quote:

- Beasley is a least a step faster than anyone else in our player pool,






ahem...
Posted by cwil177
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
28608 posts
Posted on 10/9/11 at 1:36 pm to
Sheep I agree with your points, but keep this in mind:

We also had trouble finishing our chances, like Honduras. If you say we could have EASILY lost by a few goals, we also could have EASILY blown them out if a Dempsey goal doesn't get called back (for nothing), Gooch finishes on an open net, Shea does the same, etc etc. Just a thought.
Posted by Jumbeauxlaya
LSU
Member since Jan 2011
18083 posts
Posted on 10/10/11 at 7:56 am to
quote:


It's really hard to get a read on the game, given the conditions. I'm glad we won, but I'm a little concerned that we could have EASILY lost by a few goals to the weakest opponent we've faced since the group stage of the Gold Cup.


I feel like we could have easily won by 3 goals as well with those open net missed opportunities.
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