tigerfan88

You could say almost the exact same thing about Richards. Richards lets the cross go through his legs for the first goal, he’s beaten for pace on the long ball for third goal that made Freese come out, and it’s his giveaway on the fourth goal.

Freeman had a terrible clearance on the first goal, let Trossard get the cross in on the second goal and played a part in the giveaway for the fourth goal.


Just don’t see the point of focusing on Ream when every other defender made just as if not more egregious errors in the build up to the goals.

Everyone sucked yesterday. Yes if Ream was William Saliba maybe were saved, but I don’t think it’s fair to point the finger at him. Every single goal started with schoolboy errors and mistakes from someone not named Tim Ream.

First goal starts with a terrible headed clearance by Freeman, no one near him and he just pops it straight up into the heart of the box. Primary culprits are Dest and Mckennie for just standing there and letting the Belgian player pick up the loose ball and ghost into the box. Then the cross goes through Richards’ legs and Ream doesn’t react quick enough, but it all happened incredibly quickly due to Dest inexplicably not clearing a loose ball.

Second goal Dest and Freeman have Trossard 2 v 1 and not only let him get in the cross but let him get to the byline and cross it back towards goal, letting the attacker come forward with all the momentum while Ream is now facing his own goal and has lost leverage on the attacker. Equal culpability between Ream and Dest/Freeman.

Third goal is obviously on Freese. Yes Ream could have saved the day and he did get a touch but Freese just can’t make that mistake. Richards also beaten for pace with the ball over the top which forced Freese to come out.

Fourth goal (not that it mattered) almost entirely on Richards for a terrible giveaway in the box. Again Ream could have erased the mistake if he’s William Saliba.

We got up early in all our other games which helped us be much more patient in our build up. We played from behind so much of this game we kept forcing the issue and weren’t nearly as patient trying to recycle and probe the defense.

It was one of the most obvious tight butthole performances I’ve ever seen in sports. Idk if it was the quarterfinals at home. Idk if it was the Balogun thing.

Belgium is definitely better than anyone we’ve played so far…but the moment was obviously just way too big for whatever reason

For sure. Everyone gets blame for how the first half went. Every single player was timid and just looked so overwhelmed.

That being said it’s 2-1 and we’re looking good and growing into the game with the Reyna sub…and then we go no call on Pulisic, he’s injured and down to ten men, Freese fricks up

I agree. I don’t think he was to blame for either goal, he just couldn’t erase the mistakes of others.

As bad as everyone was, I think there’s a good chance the game ends 2–2 if Freese doesn’t make that huge mistake. The Reyna sub worked and were starting to turn the screws

Yeah I mean we had egregious individual defensive errors by Dest twice, Freese, and Richards.

And Ream isn’t the guy to erase those mistakes, which he had the chance to do twice.

I tbink the Balogun controversy ended up hurting us a lot. Team looked rattled and that can’t have helped

I don’t think there’s a single US fan who would be complaining about Erling Haaland or Mbappe getting a bullshite red card overturned if we were playing them next.

Let’s fricking settle it 11 v 11 in a fair game. Bunch of babies.

You can appeal a targeting suspension after the game and try to get it overturned. Also the targeting suspension isn’t nearly as punitive, as you only miss the first half of the next game.

Honestly it wouldn’t be a bad idea for soccer to try to copy, I.e go with a suspension rule more similar to targeting than what they normally have. Red card in the first half you just miss that game, red card in second half you miss the first half of the next game.

FIFA also suspended one game red card punishments for Otamendi and Caicedo, the same as they did for Balogun. So there is also recent precedent for negating a one game suspension.

Again this is something FIFA did for four different players entering the World Cup who were going to have sit out WC games due to red cards. The U.S. is benefiting from the shift in policy but we didn’t start it. Four other countries, including a UEFA one, all got the benefit of FIFA invoking Article 27 before we did.