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4. More of a statement than a question: holy shite Tim Ream needs to be taken out to the pasture.

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McKenzie has been waaayyyy more of a liability than Tim Ream. If he’s our 2nd best CB then holy shite.

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McKenzie has been waaayyyy more of a liability than Tim Ream. If he’s our 2nd best CB then holy shite.

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McKenzie was atrocious.

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Honestly wouldn’t mind giving him a shot at the 9 if Sargent continues to struggle putting away chances.

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I'm failing to remember any attempts where he should have scored. He had the one attempt where he fell down but at that angle it would have had to be perfect anyway.

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I'm failing to remember any attempts where he should have scored. He had the one attempt where he fell down but at that angle it would have had to be perfect anyway.

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He had a chance to score after a save from a shot by McKennie, but that was a poor attempt as well.

But even on the attempt where he slipped, if he could have hit it far post, we had someone crashing in case there was a rebound.

Ream was set up to fail. We were in a 4-4-2 and he was at LB. The lineup might have said 3-4-3 but Dest was nowhere to be found on defense leaving Ream to cover the left side by himself. We all know he can't do that.

Dest left Ream out to dry so our 3-4-3 became a 4-4-2, which causes a lot of problems for Ream. There were a lot of nervy moments but to Ream’s credit he pressed well and wasn’t directly responsible for Mexico’s goals (maybe could have done better on the Llainez goal but someone centrally should have covered better once Llainez got pushed that way).

Can we capitalize PEFOK

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Also if you watched Chelsea Pulisic has to have a hold up #9 to flourish

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Dike says hello

Robinson and Richards need to be integrated ASAP, hopefully that starts with the Gold Cup. They each have the athleticism and skill levels that we need next to Brooks in WCQ, assuming Long is still hurt.

The whole Ream and Miazga thing is baffling to me. Don’t understand why Ream made more sense in a back 3. And if GB is just down on Miazga currently (he must be?), then you just couldn’t play a back 3 last night, because that meant Ream.

I thought McKenzie got better as the night went on, which says something for him. People do need to consider how young we are, with several players last night playing their first international match of any consequence against a team of Mexico’s quality. Given GB’s tactical decisions, which put us in a challenging position to put it mildly, the outcome is pretty remarkable.

Ok, understood. To me, that means Ream is your best back 3 option on the left on your roster, but that means GB had to just scrap the back 3 idea because Ream cannot be on the field against a team like Mexico.