WCQ Roster for next week's games:
No Brooks (bad form), no Dest (injured). Not having Dest might be problematic TBH. Felt he was the best US player the last set of games.
GKs: Sean Johnson, Zack Steffen, Matt Turner
D: Cannon (yay), McKenzie, Chris Richards, Antonee Robinson, Miles Robinson, Joe Scally (Borussia Mongladbach), Sam Vines, Yedlin, Zimmerman
MF: Acosta, Adams, Busio, Lletget, McKennie, Musah, Roldan
F: Aaronson, Arriola, Jesus Ferreira, Pep, Pulisic, Weah
Cannon being back takes a little sting out of Dest not being available. Looks like Pepi has curried the favor of Berhalter over Sargent and Pefok. I like the core group of defenders although I'm not crazy about Vines...and I don't know anything about Scally. I'm stiill mystified as to the appeal of Lletget as the 8 or 10. Personally I hop we run the 4-4-3 with the following lineup:
GK: Turner
D: Cannon-M Robinson-McKenzie-A Robinson
MF: Musah-Adams-Aaronson-McKennie
F- Pulisic-Pepi- Weah
Knowing Berhalter though, we're likely to see a 3-5-2 that looks like this:
Zimmerman-M. Robinson- McKenzie
Cannon- Adams-McKenie- Pulisic-Weah
Aaronson-Pepi
If he does do this, I'd rather see Aaronson in the 10 role and Pulisic pushed up top with Pepi, and Richards in over Zimmerman as he gives the US a little better athleticism and speed in that role and can likely keep up with Jimenez, Lainez, Funes Mori, and Chucky. I don't trust Zimmerman in that spot against El Tri...the US already has enough trouble playing out of the back as it is, Zimmerman would make that crazy. And Turner should just punt the ball out of trouble the entire time...screw trying to play out of the back and giving Mexico extra chances without having to work for it.