I'm not a fan of you, but 100% agree. Berhalter was terrible. They got rid of Klinsman for his style and all they did was hire a Klinsman wanna be light. The team needs to get back to its never die American mentality and stick with the formations that kids grow up playing. He also took zero credible strikers and the fitness was piss ass.
And how do you start Ferreira against the Dutch marking him with van Dijk? Darning ridiculous. The Dutch played 3 across the back. Spread them out with the speed of Jedi and Dest to create space for Musah, CP10, Weah, and Gio run right through them. You attack it in waves. Crosses like that are lazy and totally uncreative, especially when you don't have the personnel selected to win those crosses.
Adding to this... Crosses are most dangerous when they're played early. It's like when Aaron Rodgers rushes a snap to catch the defense with 12 men. If you play a cross with the first touch or a quick 2nd touch your teammate has the advantage on it bc it's played early enough that the defense is still in retreat. Almost every time our crosses were wasted bc they were played after allowing the on-ball defender time to contest, which disrupted the quality of the cross and allowed the central defense to get well positioned as if it were a corner kick.
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Answer seems obvious.
More like a basketball team throwing alley oop lobs to a 5'9" PG being defended by Dikembe Mutombo.
I never completely understood why they were anointed as favorites for this cup. Yeah, they have some good players but they haven’t done well (by their standards) in major competitions in a while…and their defensive triumvirate of Silva, Casemiro, and Marquinhos are kinda old and shaky at times.
