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American Soccer |OT| Life, liberty and the pursuit of the beautiful game
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Cornballer
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US defense cut apart with a couple of quick passes there. Not much speed in this US lineup today on offense or defense, and it shows.
Grover Cleveland
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Ireland JV-1
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Really poor pass from Bedoya led to the break.
That's a seemingly innocuous mistake, to give the ball away in the opponent's half, but those seemingly small mistakes are what separate teams like the US as of now and Germany.
Great teams don't take anything too casually.
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Really poor pass from Bedoya led to the break.
That's a seemingly innocuous mistake, to give the ball away in the opponent's half, but those seemingly small mistakes are what separate teams like the US as of now and Germany.
Great teams don't take anything too casually.
Grover Cleveland
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Wondo out there looking lost
Cornballer
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That's a little better. US equalizes via Mix from Wondo.
smokeandmirrors
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Good ol Mixy
Cornballer
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Wood on for Wondo.
jamesinclair
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Its that time of year again, the time to sell season tickets!
You can set your watch to the annual "Revs looking at Boston stadium" article in the Globe
Cornballer
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Bad defense again. Sheesh.
Wouldn't surprise me. I don't really expect Collin to be in SKC blues next season. Deserved or not, he's going to want money that we're not willing to pay and probably won't come down from what he thinks he's worth.
Cornballer
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Garza on for Morales.
Cornballer
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Wood clean through on goal and Given saves. :/
Cornballer
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Morris and Rubin coming on for Chandler and Mixx.
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Deflected goal goes in. 3-1 Ireland.
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4-1
Grover Cleveland
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This is quite shocking.
This US side should be able to beat full-strength Ireland let alone the JV squad
This US side should be able to beat full-strength Ireland let alone the JV squad
smokeandmirrors
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Lolol
Dude! I open up my first can of Surge and you make me spill!
Anybody could score at least 3 goals against us the way I've watched us defend so far, and I only turned it on 10 minutes ago.
Cornballer
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US looked lost today. Lots of guys didn't know what they were supposed to be doing on either side of the ball. I can understand a young team getting outplayed by superior opposition, or trying a new system and getting hammered because of it. But this was more a bunch of guys who didn't look like they had a plan and didn't look like they wanted to be there. Find an identity as a team and try something...anything. Ugh.
I thought Bedoya played ok aside from his giveaway in the first half. Good to get a couple younger guys some minutes, but otherwise this was a complete train wreck.
I thought Bedoya played ok aside from his giveaway in the first half. Good to get a couple younger guys some minutes, but otherwise this was a complete train wreck.
after minute 55, this team is donezo.
Besler has looked awful since the WC. Gonna throw out the possibility of overtraining here.
Our midfield is pure crap and we can't make anything happen through the middle. Most of our best creativity comes off the fullbacks.
Forwards aren't confident.
Besler has looked awful since the WC. Gonna throw out the possibility of overtraining here.
Our midfield is pure crap and we can't make anything happen through the middle. Most of our best creativity comes off the fullbacks.
Forwards aren't confident.
Cornballer
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He really needs some time off. Someone noted today that he's played ~90 games over the last two years.
I think that's more than a possibility at this point.
The level of cognitive dissonance is amazing... Yeah MAYBE the Revs requested that Nguyen only play 15 minutes. Of course NOTHING ANYWHERE has claimed that was the case. And the other Revs player Jones (who was injured and missed games not too long ago) played the full game so I guess they're not concerned about him even though they just paid millions of dollars for him. Yedlin played 86 minutes even though he's still involved in the MLS playoffs. But maybe Nguyen (who started 32/34 games) is so fragile that he can only handle 12 minutes, yeah that's why the best midfielder we have right now didn't get nearly as many minutes as guys like Wood and Morales. Let's grasp at nonexistent straws to avoid looking at Klinsmann.
Let's start from the premise that Klinsmann knows what he's doing and then concoct some explanation for his inexplicable decisions... if Donovan doesn't make the roster clearly it's because Brad Davis and Graham Zusi and Julian Green are better than him.
Why even call in Besler? Why not tell him to just worry about getting ready for the 2015 season and call in center backs who have performed far better than him recently and have yet to be given a chance with the national team, for example 24 year old FC Dallas captain and one of the best defenders in the league over the last two seasons Matt Hedges?
Clearly it's all about the quality of our players, that's the problem here. Our players are simply not as good as Ireland minus Robbie Keane. Maybe one day the US can not get humiliated 4-1 by the soccer powerhouse that is Ireland but it will take years under Klinsmann's guidance for us to reach that elite level and until then we'll just have to take our lumps.
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- Grant Wahl for SI: USMNT closes 2014 with uninspiring 4-1 loss to second-choice Ireland
Not really, you may not see Ireland at many major tournaments but it's not a myth that it's harder to qualify from UEFA. The A team drew against Germany in Germany in a qualifier last month.
4-1 though...
sure overtraining is to blame when you can't even put one foot forward right. That German and his training. Should stuck with an American. Then we can get proper respect for MLS and give the league its due.
Not like dudes like McGeady and Long wouldn't walk into our squad....
83, 41 this year. Which isn't really that much. Dempsey played 105 games for club and country during his last 2 years in England.
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