Tactically, this team is all over the place

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You can have all the talent you want but if you don't actually put them into position to succeed, you severely limit yourself

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Jurgen doesn't do tactics, except "experimentally" playing players out of position.

Really disappointed in our outside backs and our wingers. Our midfield was outnumbered, but that allowed Jozy to have a strike partner and it paid off (a little, but not a lot. Hardly any possession in the final third).

Our passing and movement is poor. Maybe that's players (ie Chandler) with low soccer IQ, but I believe at least some of that is coaching.

I'm not just talking about these friendlies.

Since he took over in 2011, tactically, what would you say this team's identity has been?

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Since he took over in 2011, tactically, what would you say this team's identity has been?

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"Go long, I'll boot one up from 50 yards out"

Or "just kick it"

I've noticed since I really started following that we don't particularly give a shite where we're kicking it, and most of our guys panic with the ball at their feet. 3-5 minutes every match we look really good and create scoring opportunities. The other 85 minutes we look pretty bad and it's bend to the breaking point. Maybe that's our strategy. Look just bad enough to lull the opposition into a comfort zone and then muster every ounce of skill we have into 3 plays a game and hope for a goal.

Look at the Belgium game, we got wrecked for 90 minutes and almost managed to steal the game at the end, only for the dam to finally break in the extra period.

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when push comes to shove it works

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What do you define as "works"?

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Wasn't the Jurgy hire suppose to surpass Bradley/Arena results?

It's largely been the same.

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i knew where this was going

Arena was sure fire stuck in his ways and it showed.

Bob ball worked but only got us so far and other than the Spain result vs high level competition it just didn't work.

Jurgy is also trying to fundamentally change the mentality of american soccer from playing long ball and take on pressure then just counter attack.

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Where was this going? I mentioned Bob & Bruce from the beginning.

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the bob ball love

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And to change that mentality, you have to be tactically sound.

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You can still be tactically sound while using different formations and tactics.

The issue really comes down to playing so many new guys who have no chemistry together and who never came up together through the youth ranks.

Looks for this to change in the years to come with the changes in the youth set up giving our teams an actually identity.

There is a reason youngsters in brazil, germany, spain, italy can all slide right in bc they have been brought up playing a certain way and have some chemistry through the year.

For the longest time we just called up the same 30 guys or so with a limited player pool.

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Make no mistake, I don't want Bov or Bruce back. I do want results that are better than what they produced and with Jurgen we're not really getting that.

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for us to get out of that group was a result

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but our tactics were not well defined in the lead up to the World Cup either.

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That could b/c limited player ability, that will all change this is def a long term project from top to bottom.

When Tab takes over

It's a friendly. We had a makeshift backline, not all of our starters, and 7 subs--of course it was all over the place.

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It's a friendly.

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I'm talking about one game in specific.