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re: These United States of America vs. Our Hat (ESPN2, 8:11 CT)
Posted on 1/29/13 at 10:12 pm to LSUSOBEAST1
Posted on 1/29/13 at 10:12 pm to LSUSOBEAST1
quote:
I don't even want to begin to evaluate that match.
This was rough.
Posted on 1/29/13 at 10:17 pm to Meursault
Possession without purpose is meaningless Jurgen. Spain can afford to trot out 6 center mids because those guys know how to make incisive movements and passes.
Our guys don't. Our guys are fast, athletic and now decently skillful. Bob Bradley understood that. Jurgen thinks that 60 back passes equates to attacking football.
He had three weeks to prepare a team to take on a horrible Canada side and the best chance we get is an Omar Gonzalez header on a free kick.
Brilliant
Our guys don't. Our guys are fast, athletic and now decently skillful. Bob Bradley understood that. Jurgen thinks that 60 back passes equates to attacking football.
He had three weeks to prepare a team to take on a horrible Canada side and the best chance we get is an Omar Gonzalez header on a free kick.
Brilliant
Posted on 1/29/13 at 10:35 pm to Meursault
rather than doing traditional ten point player ratings I am just going to use the garbage scale.
Ex. Morales, morrow, beltran, evans, bruin, wondo, and davis are all unadulterated garbage. Put them in the trash can and never call them in again for any reason.
Feilhaber, GAM, and beckerdreads are all refuse. They have flashes of usefulness, but in general are not worth any significant playing time and should be discarded. Unfortunately beckerman and maybe GAM will get callups.
S Johnson, gonzalez, zusi, bedoya, and gatt are the only ones out there tonight that I would like to see more of. Bedoya and gatt both need a lot more polish, but I can see the upside. Particularly with gatt I appreciated his hustle and general discontent with mediocre bullshite abortion soccer. Zusi, bedoya, and gonzalez will get callups for backup roles, rightfully so.
Frankly I wasn't expecting a lot more from this game, but what most concerned me was the shift in tactics. Of course we started out trying to work the ball, but because of lack of general skill and hustle players got frustrated. After about 30 minutes we went into autpilot/sleepwalk mode. Then at about 65 minutes we actually started to close people down quickly as soon as they got the ball which frankly we should have done all game against a very pedestrian opponent. Some spaces started to open up but by then we were playing bob ball and nobody really gave a shite anymore.
Last rant, why was mix not even on the bench? It was pretty obvious that there was no central creativity, so we bring in feilhaber who lets be honest will never make any significant contribution the the national team. It would've been nice to see how mix would have fared and given him some more international playing time.
Ex. Morales, morrow, beltran, evans, bruin, wondo, and davis are all unadulterated garbage. Put them in the trash can and never call them in again for any reason.
Feilhaber, GAM, and beckerdreads are all refuse. They have flashes of usefulness, but in general are not worth any significant playing time and should be discarded. Unfortunately beckerman and maybe GAM will get callups.
S Johnson, gonzalez, zusi, bedoya, and gatt are the only ones out there tonight that I would like to see more of. Bedoya and gatt both need a lot more polish, but I can see the upside. Particularly with gatt I appreciated his hustle and general discontent with mediocre bullshite abortion soccer. Zusi, bedoya, and gonzalez will get callups for backup roles, rightfully so.
Frankly I wasn't expecting a lot more from this game, but what most concerned me was the shift in tactics. Of course we started out trying to work the ball, but because of lack of general skill and hustle players got frustrated. After about 30 minutes we went into autpilot/sleepwalk mode. Then at about 65 minutes we actually started to close people down quickly as soon as they got the ball which frankly we should have done all game against a very pedestrian opponent. Some spaces started to open up but by then we were playing bob ball and nobody really gave a shite anymore.
Last rant, why was mix not even on the bench? It was pretty obvious that there was no central creativity, so we bring in feilhaber who lets be honest will never make any significant contribution the the national team. It would've been nice to see how mix would have fared and given him some more international playing time.
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