Berhalter has some thoughts on how the team is playing.

this is without a doubt my favorite World Cup moment

Between this and Bruce Arena making the rounds calling for Balogun to be suspended further for a “horror tackle,” there’s some serious fricking salt coming from our ex-managers.

This is pretty wild

I don't like Gregg, but he's right. Our best player needs to have the ball a lot and he wasn't getting it enough.

We’ll see what the plan is without Balogun. I tend to think that it’s more Pochettino being able to draw up a game plan and develop a tactical system that is more nuanced than “get Pulisic the ball wide and hope he does something.”

Think it’s telling that’s about the extent of Gregg’s tactical nous.

He’s not wrong.

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Unless I completely zoned out when he said it, I didn't hear that when I listened to the clip. He said he thought it was a red due to the potential for injury and hoped it's just a one game suspension. I don't recall him saying horror tackle or saying it should be more.

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Copy that, I would be suprised if he said anything like that frankly.

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Panel of mediocrity

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Its like a hair loss time lapse.

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“get Pulisic the ball wide and hope he does something.”

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I don't understand everyone agreeing with this.

As if that wasn't 100% BHs tactical plan of prevention and weighting their defense on both flanks. They tried to take both CP and SD out of the game and we rightfully took advantage of what that opened up. They were clearly trying to compensate being overly physical and sloppy with Bologun 1 on 1 and it bit them in the arse eventually.

BH made some adjustments with all the holes that were being left open in middle and the channels and at least CP started to see more of the ball.

Why forcefully play into exactly what the other team is trying to stop vs letting the team play through what is there, which it feels like Poch has trained them to do vs previous leadership where we'd just keep pounding the same tactical strategy no matter what the other team was giving us.

CP and Dest are great with the ball but they're just as valuable pulling defenders towards them and opening things up for what has turned into a very talented middle attack and middle channel attack that Bologun has obviously flourished with.