re: United States of F#ck Yeah v. Waffles & Sh|t | Friendly | 2:30pm CT (TNT)

Get rid of this entire defense

Shameful this is going to be our roster for a home world cup

See how easy it is? Go the frick down.

We Slid midfield help to Doku all match, and he still had his way because the help either came in too far toward the 18 yd line or too flat and nobody covered the top of the box.

Weah didn’t as well as could be expected, but his help failed him repeatedly.

Pulisic was squeezed all game. No room for him, and no help inside to bail us because we were in a double pivot.

McKennie gets sloppy imo when we are in “dire straits”. When he does that, the rest of the team echoes. Just deflates. Simple observation, nothing more.

Berhalter came on playing hero ball instead of being self-contained. Scaly looked like a newborn when he came on. Agyemang had good and bad, but mostly bad. Both he and Pepi worked hard, though the Game was over when they came on.

Clearly missed Adams, Dest would have been a huge help too.

Balogun wasn’t getting good service. When he did have service, he tried with combination play but nothing seemed to come of it.

Give me Weston box-to-box, Gio in the 10 under Balogun, and Adams as the midfield in the group stage based on what I saw today and in the last two camps.

If we are playing a team with a pulse, I want to see Some frick (Miles or McKenzie), Richards, and Freeman as the back three. Ream is aging out (finally) at the wrong time.

I don’t think Roldan was that bad, he just wasn’t that good either.

All of that and my previous post just to get to this:

Turner is NOT it. I’d rather us just abandon him in the next camp and call in someone young af and promising like Gaga Slonina or Diego Kochen if Turner is gonna be that bad.

Against Portugal, I want to see Balogun up top, Pulisic - Gio - McKennie - Weah under him, Cardoso as the 6, then Jedi - McKenzie - Robinson, Freeman at the back with Jedi obviously bombing up and down the left.

IDGAFlyingF who is between the sticks next as long as it isn’t Turner.

He was getting deep balls played to him, but seemed to be at poor angles and weights. The only couple that were decent he was simply not fast enough to get to it.

When it was played to his feet, he held it up and tried to play combos. We just sucked after the goal.

I thought Turner was poor on 2nd and 4th goal, i missed the 5th

But damn he must have punched 4 balls right back into the middle of the box. One hit a belgian who wasnt expecting it or it would have been an immediate volley for a goal

After today I hope Pochettino gets the wake up call that this squad cannot roll the ball out and play the top 10 teams in the world “straight up.”

Belgium played around with us pretty much the whole game. They let us have the ball thinking we were doing something good and they were just letting us open ourselves up and expose our horrible back line and poor Timothy Weah over and over and over again.

The sooner we suck it up and learn to keep it tight and disciplined and “boring” against this quality of team the better. I know people don’t like it, but a defend and counter 1-0, 2-1 game is our hope against Belgium and the dozen teams better than them this summer. Otherwise we are going to get embarrassed when we meet one of them in the WC trying to play a wide open game.

Yep, I don’t care about beautiful football. I want results and not getting out butts kicked.

Slow day on the PoliBoard troll waters, eh fella?

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Slow day on the PoliBoard troll waters, eh fella?

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Do you think I don't post on the soccer board or something?