Purp
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New uniforms were bad. These are even worse.
Nike sucks
New uniforms were bad. These are even worse.
It’s like they’re making it bad on purpose. Horrid.Nike sucks
Vines and Long were the main 2 I mentioned that don’t belong.I'm still late in the first half, but I see 2 huge problems causing most of our troubles.
1) Sam Vines needs to be out of the player pool until/unless he develops better. He's playing way too deep, which is causing Gio to play way too deep and it's disrupting our tactics and shape in attack. We can't sustain anything forward on the left side bc of it.
2) Aaron Long and is not sharp. Way too many lazy passes against a team that presses high and he's not moving well off the ball. He and McKennie have had 4-5 missed opportunities where you can tell they have different ideas. Long wants to play slow out of the back and Weston wants to build an attack. If Long wants to play at this level he needs to start making more incisive passes rather than the lazy crap he's rolling around.
The turnover that led to their goal was a Long/McKennie mishap. Weston expected his center back to step into space and Long stayed back for no reason. Weston laid it off into space for Long to run onto it and build, but Long senselessly stayed back in a defensive posture and we turned it over.
Turner has been solid, but he's wasted 2-3 balls off his feet. He's got to improve that aspect of his game.
Btw, all subs at halftime were “pre-planned” haha.Half time subs are stupid. McKenzie for Long is good, but Dest should have gone to the left side instead of off. Jordan Morris should also not be playing. Berhalter is very disappointing.
Did you hear Twellman's commentary before the match started about Pefok? He basically confirmed my fears that Berhalter's language about profile and "we know what he is" sounds like Pefok is out of the WC unless one of the 3 strikers in camp is out of form. That should be a firable offense.
Cannot rep this post enough. Putting aside his [ Finebaum ]ty tactics for the moment.... "we know what he is." Really? Really??!! Because it sure as hell looks to the rest of the world that Pefok's playing at an elite level right now -three goals and three assists in six matches- for the Bundesliga top club.Did you hear Twellman's commentary before the match started about Pefok? He basically confirmed my fears that Berhalter's language about profile and "we know what he is" sounds like Pefok is out of the WC unless one of the 3 strikers in camp is out of form. That should be a firable offense.
This one too. Crashing out at the group stage would suck, but it seems where we're headed. That moron needs to be gone after the WC; we need a legit manager to lead the national setup into 2026, when our talent should be peaking. And when, you know, WE'RE HOSTING THE DAMN THING*.My main takeaway…. We will NEVER reach our potential with Berhalter in charge.
New uniforms were bad. These are even worse.
Part of me wants us to go 0-3 so that we can be rid of him.Cannot rep this post enough. Putting aside his [ #2020 ]ty tactics for the moment.... "we know what he is." Really? Really??!! Because it sure as hell looks to the rest of the world that Pefok's playing at an elite level right now -three goals and three assists in six matches- for the Bundesliga top club.
This one too. Crashing out at the group stage would suck, but it seems where we're headed. That moron needs to be gone after the WC; we need a legit manager to lead the national setup into 2026, when our talent should be peaking. And when, you know, WE'RE HOSTING THE DAMN THING*.
Yeah yeah Canada and Mexico will have group matches and a quarter, but the business end of the tourney will be here.
Yeah, I've had that thought, too.Part of me wants us to go 0-3 so that we can be rid of him.
Sadly.Shades of WC’98 cropping up for me.