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re: God's Country vs. Hoduras Game Thread
Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:20 pm to hondurantiger
Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:20 pm to hondurantiger
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.
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 on 10/9/11 at 12:31 pm to Sheep
How did Daniel Williams look?
Posted on 10/9/11 at 12:39 pm to Sheep
quote:
- Beasley is a least a step faster than anyone else in our player pool,
ahem...
Posted on 10/9/11 at 1:36 pm to Sheep
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.
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 on 10/10/11 at 7:56 am to Sheep
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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