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re: What is your bar for describing this World Cup as "successful" for USMNT?
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:38 pm to ArmydawgMD
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:38 pm to ArmydawgMD
Beating Belgium without our only serious consistent goal scoring threat not available would be a success. Wright and Pepi will likely give us nothing so the goals will have to come from elsewhere. Belgium doesn’t have to show any respect for our forwards and they won’t help open anything up.
This post was edited on 7/2/26 at 3:42 pm
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Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:40 pm to Alyosha
Always good to see validation of my opinion when that's the best you can come up with. 
Posted on 7/2/26 at 6:39 pm to magildachunks
quote:I disagree. There is fluff in the field with 48 teams. Bosnia was a third place finisher that had to go through playoffs to qualify at all. They are at best a group stage level opponent. Beating them is par for where we’ve been.
Achieving the knockout round is par.
A final 16 team like Belgium is the level we haven’t regularly exceeded. Below par is exceeding it for the first time in nearly a quarter century.
This post was edited on 7/2/26 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 7/2/26 at 8:36 pm to UncleLester
Successful? For me, getting to R16.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 10:15 am to theballguy
Beat Belgium and compete with (ie. don’t get embarrassed by) Spain/portugal
Posted on 7/4/26 at 2:32 pm to 632627
Getting to quarterfinals would be success
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:23 pm to Sofaking2
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Beating Belgium without our only serious consistent goal scoring threat not available would be a success. Wright and Pepi will likely give us nothing so the goals will have to come from elsewhere. Belgium doesn’t have to show any respect for our forwards and they won’t help open anything up
Don’t sleep on Pepi. It’s not like he’s Brian Ching.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:36 pm to MetArl15
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I disagree. There is fluff in the field with 48 teams. Bosnia was a third place finisher that had to go through playoffs to qualify at all. They are at best a group stage level opponent. Beating them is par for where we’ve been.
A final 16 team like Belgium is the level we haven’t regularly exceeded. Below par is exceeding it for the first time in nearly a quarter century.
After watching the R32 games, do you still stand by your "fluff in the field" statement?
With traditional powers being knocked out by 3rd place "fluff" teams to arguable "Favorites" to win the tournament being pushed to the their limit by "minnows", the US came away with one of the most comfortable wins, alongside Mexico.
Just today France got shut down by a team that the US scored 4 goals against. All France could manage was a goal from a PK.
I consider this tournament to be a success for the USMNT already. And after watching the knockout games, I truly believe that the US can beat anyone in the field. No team looks to be without weaknesses. I trust Poche to develop a plan to exploit those weaknesses and the boys to be able to carry out that plan.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 11:04 pm to magildachunks
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I consider this tournament to be a success for the USMNT already.
Nope, this is a held serve tournament for us so far. We make the R16 all the time away from home soil.
Gotta make the quarters for this to be a true watershed moment for the federation
Posted on 7/4/26 at 11:11 pm to Broski
We’ve easily set the record for most goals in a World Cup, most wins in a World Cup, we’re playing the latest into a WC ever by date (first time ever still being in the tournament on July 4). It’s the best we’ve ever looked eye test wise, we’ve never trailed in the three games with our A team.
Some of that is a result of the expanded tournament, but it’s also reductive at this point to call the tournament a failure if we lose to Belgium.
Some of that is a result of the expanded tournament, but it’s also reductive at this point to call the tournament a failure if we lose to Belgium.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 11:16 pm to tigerfan88
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but it’s also reductive at this point to call the tournament a failure if we lose to Belgium.
Not calling it a failure, that would’ve been not making it out the group.
But this is our best chance, likely in our lifetimes, that we have to win the World Cup. Home soil and every team outside of France seems to have a wart.
We need to make the quarters for this to be a success.
Posted on 7/5/26 at 12:13 am to Broski
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Home soil and every team outside of France seems to have a wart
Did you watch the game today?
France has some glaring weaknesses.
They had no answer for what Paraguay was doing defensively.
They couldn't find windows to pass around and therefore couldn't execute the offense that they mastered.
Paraguay denied them executing their offense and forced them to have to be creative. And that's the glaring weakness.
This French team isn't creative. Deny them the ability to run their system and force them to improvise and create attacks in the moment, and they falter.
Posted on 7/5/26 at 12:16 am to magildachunks
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magildachunks
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Did you watch the game today?
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Broski
Posted on 7/5/26 at 9:22 am to Alyosha
Why you tryna start shite sauce bawse?
Posted on 7/5/26 at 9:33 am to Broski
Haha all in fun
Posted on 7/5/26 at 8:45 pm to UncleLester
Make it to the Round of 16 ; that’s a win for the USMNT
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