USMNT New Era
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Whatever lineup they ran out yesterday against T&T played with a chip on their shoulders and shellacked a side that kept the US out of the World Cup in 2018. And especially when the upper echelon CONCACAF teams struggled in their 1st games, the US taking care of business is a good thing. Mexico barely held on against the Dominican Republic, a team who can't even get into the top 8 of CONCACAF for qualifying. Costa Rica needed a flipping miracle and help from the referee to come back against Suriname. Saudi Arabia, a WC quality side, was barely able to beat Haiti, 1-0.
I kind of wish we had Herve Renard as our coach. At the very minimum, he could motivate a lot more women to show up.
That team TNT team was depleted and divided and not a squad fit for international competition. Even for CONCACAF. Or the smaller Caribbean nations for that matter. Maybe the worst defended international game I’ve ever seen. Andorra or San Marino could have won this game.
The USA isn’t the only country not taking this competition seriously. The best striker for TNT took the game off to get married. Other players skipped too. Dwight York could play. He may not be able to coach. We shall see.
The only thing to be learned from this game is that Reyna has been replaced by Luna for now and Wright is the fourth choice.
We continue to experiment with that three man back line and double pivot. And we do it with players who likely aren’t going. That’s interesting.
Sounds like Sargent isn’t going to the World Cup based on the post game remarks that the squad will be cut significantly after this tourney.
The USA isn’t the only country not taking this competition seriously. The best striker for TNT took the game off to get married. Other players skipped too. Dwight York could play. He may not be able to coach. We shall see.
The only thing to be learned from this game is that Reyna has been replaced by Luna for now and Wright is the fourth choice.
We continue to experiment with that three man back line and double pivot. And we do it with players who likely aren’t going. That’s interesting.
Sounds like Sargent isn’t going to the World Cup based on the post game remarks that the squad will be cut significantly after this tourney.
We'll see. I'm not big on this group right now. GK needs a major overhaul and the best US GK is likely not in the top 4 mix right now for whatever reason.
And Guatemala beat Jamaica last night and Jamaica had the majority of their top players out there, the ones we see in EPL. Guatemala was better in possession, very creative in their attack and pretty technical. I will say the referee in that match had a real clunker. I don't recall seeing a yellow card and there were at least 6-7 YC offenses, mostly for grabbing a guy from behind and stopping a promising attack. The ref showed nothing. And I 'm sure if you showed the match to a dozen referees, 11 of them would agree with me on the assessment. He was far too patient and the grabbing got worse later in the game because he did nothing about it early in the game.
And Guatemala beat Jamaica last night and Jamaica had the majority of their top players out there, the ones we see in EPL. Guatemala was better in possession, very creative in their attack and pretty technical. I will say the referee in that match had a real clunker. I don't recall seeing a yellow card and there were at least 6-7 YC offenses, mostly for grabbing a guy from behind and stopping a promising attack. The ref showed nothing. And I 'm sure if you showed the match to a dozen referees, 11 of them would agree with me on the assessment. He was far too patient and the grabbing got worse later in the game because he did nothing about it early in the game.
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