What position for Geoff Cameron be most advantageous for the US?

I like him as the holding midfield with Bradley but I don't like our RB options so I would prefer him there

Why would Jermaine Jones be on Pepe, unless it's corner kicks?





Oh yeah that's right, he has no defensive positioning.






I think Cameron ever playing at CB for us requires two things:
1. Timmy Chandler has to be healthy
2. Our other CB options have to be vastly inferior.

Would like to see how a pairing of beckerman and cameron as the holding CM's would work. Bradley needs to be the CAM, we just go to a whole different level offensively when we he plays there.

Have Dempsey at LM cheating inside to link up play with bradley and Altidore/Johannson. Zusi at RM playing wide and getting crosses in.

Hell I'd be willing to put Johannson in Dempsey's spot, as stated above, and play dempsey at ST.

Leaves us vulnerable on the counter but gives us best opportunity to score goals while still keeping two CM's in front of our young CB's.

ETA: Jones is the most annoying player in our pool. Touch is terrible. Provides nothing going forward and he is always turning the ball over in the middle of the pitch. Do not want.

ETA part deux: I love having Cameron on the pitch to start the game because his versatility gives you lots of options with subs to react to the game situation.

Honestly I would be ok with Dempsey at LM because that's where he scored the majority of his goals for Fulham. Fab is good enough at LB to cover for Dempsey's lack of defensive work, I think.

I love Bradley at CAM. No ifs ands or buts about it. As evidenced by the Panama game and the Mexico friendly, if we have positionally disciplined DMs who allow Bradley the freedom to go up top, our attack becomes so much more dynamic. And he's a scoring threat. I'm not kidding- every time I see Bradley played forward like that... it moves. And not just a little bit.

I agree with the Jones sentiment, and I think most people here do too (except maybe Hendo). His passing #s are atrocious. Beckerman completes his passes and doesn't give the ball away, stays positionally disciplined, and cycles possession, which is exactly what we need. His speed is his biggest question mark.

I would be ok playing Jones with Beckerman in the 2 of the 4-2-3-1 because 1. we know Jones is a starter and 2. because Beckerman will stay back, which mitigates some of Jones' craziness. It's a shame, really, because I think if Jones just held put at the destroyer role our team could reach another level.

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His passing #s are atrocious.

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And really irrelevant when comparing him to most of the other CMs in the pool. For all of the deserved shite he got for running around like a psychopath in the first half of the Costa Rica game, let's not forget that Geoff Cameron didn't really bother to complete a forward pass, and probably couldn't have if he tried

Saying that's irrelevant is absurd. Of course it's relevant. We can't afford for a midfielder to have a 60% pass completion rate.

But you're totally right about Cameron not being able to complete a forward pass.

Just kidding.

Are we talking about the game where we didn't have Bradley?

Also, JJ's passes were mostly sideways or short passes forwards. I really wish I could find the map of it. Definitely worse than bombing 60 yard balls down field to no one, since it puts us on the back foot and leaves us exposed defensively. He had an absolutely amazing pass in his first game playing for us against Poland to spring Jozy for a goal. He also had a good one for Clint's goal in that shite show in Honduras. Other than that he's been disappointing with his passing.

Yeah

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Also, JJ's passes were mostly sideways or short passes forwards.

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As they're going to be, but no one was having a particularly great time even doing that, and while the 60 yard diagonal ball was hyperbolic, he plays a lot of very difficult passes forward, which I don't particularly have a problem with.

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since it puts us on the back foot and leaves us exposed defensively.

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Correct.

In that game particularly, I had a much bigger problem with some of the absolutely retarded shite he tried tried to do in dangerous areas when he didn't decide to pass the ball.

Here's the chalkboard

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Ream

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O dear God please no.

I think I agree with you.

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O dear God please no.

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Ream, you mean that guy playing in the Championship (ie better than MLS) who just got Bolton's player of the year award? That guy who also plays LB and CB and DM and therefore fills several needs?