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Copa América Centenario |OT| featuring Messi, James, Suárez and $110 mil in bribes
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Hasphat'sAnts
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Could be worse. She could be swooning after Cristiano
AcademicSaucer
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Uruguay population : 3.4 million
He is terrible 9 out of 10 matches.
But the kid is incredible at creating chances for the opposition. World class in that area.
Shots (On Goal)
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Argentina 11(7)
USA 0(0)
Chile 21(11)
Mexico 9(1)
Mexico tried.
Shout out to Jones, Wood, and Bedoya!
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I feel the need for speed.
Unlike Klinsmann, who decided we should use our clearly superior talent to pass through the Argentinian press.
Unlike Klinsmann, who decided we should use our clearly superior talent to pass through the Argentinian press.
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
Klinsmann is squarely responsible for this tournament
- Playing Johnson out of his strength position
- Playing Bradley WITH Beckerman in the middle at times
- Playing Beckerman over Nagbe
- Not subing Bradley or Wood when needed(in other matches)
Argentina winning is not the shock, but the way we lost today was.... urgh. We werent Mexico bad but...man.
We need to develop midfield gameplan away from Bradley, he's not forward thinking and buckled under the pressure of "big" teams. Without a good midfiled, your attack will be shit regardless of your forwards.
On the plus side, I believe in Zardes for the first time, he improved alot.
- Playing Johnson out of his strength position
- Playing Bradley WITH Beckerman in the middle at times
- Playing Beckerman over Nagbe
- Not subing Bradley or Wood when needed(in other matches)
Argentina winning is not the shock, but the way we lost today was.... urgh. We werent Mexico bad but...man.
We need to develop midfield gameplan away from Bradley, he's not forward thinking and buckled under the pressure of "big" teams. Without a good midfiled, your attack will be shit regardless of your forwards.
On the plus side, I believe in Zardes for the first time, he improved alot.
Nah, I mean, Mexico was a legitimate contender for the cup (prior to the game). There was no need to go easy on them.
Hasphat'sAnts
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OPTA had counted Pulisic's failed cross as a shot attempt.
They've since rescinded it
Cornbread78
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EWWW, then there would be accusations of bad tastes.
SMH, Kiritobread.
Madrugador
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Yes, but that's not something that would change by having more population. They are already competitive as it is.
AcademicSaucer
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Can the US players say that they gave their all in this match?
He isn't though.
Skellig Gra
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No, if anything we overachieved in this tournament.
Because we're America and the best and therefore automatically have the talent to compete with anyone, duh.
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0% chance unless a disaster in qualifying.
would like to see Johnson in the midfield but I don't think there is anyone in the LB pool who is very good.
Perfect Blue
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help
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i see him staying til Russia, they kinda married to him in a way
we better beat Colombia for 3rd at least
are we still pretending Chile wont beat Colombia??
i think Shea(orlando) would do that job better then Johnson. Besler was available but was never used(and im not a big fan of him anyways)
DecoReturns
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Ironically Our coach has a better chance of getting fired then Klins
smokeandmirrors
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Hasphat'sAnts
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0 shot attempt is embarrassing. Even fucking Millwall can muster a handful of attempts against United in the FA Cup at least
unless qualifying goes bad, no.
That's actually interesting. How Donovan's observation that at least American teams always give it their all can't be reconciled with the other analyst's comment that the US didn't bring it!
shoplifter
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I can't argue either of these. Since coming back to MLS he has been terrible. Regularly making terrible passes.
He runs a lot though.
Tragicomedy
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Argentina looked phenomenal as usual. Still stunned by Pocho injuring himself in the most bizarre and pointless fashion. Going into the final without him and the Angel of Mary will be interested. Kun Aguero likely starting?
As long as Messi and Higuain keep up their level of play, it probably doesn't matter.
As long as Messi and Higuain keep up their level of play, it probably doesn't matter.
lol k
Word.
He is. And he did well, TBH. We were down 3 starters in this game. And we were against literally the best team in the world.
I'm not. I expected a loss. I hoped for a better fight than we gave, and honestly that's the one point where Klinsi failed us this game.
No. He publically stated that he wanted to achieve this level in the tournament. He did it. We lost to Argentina. That's not something to be ashamed of.
However, I do believe that in this game, with the people missing who were missing, we didn't put out the best 11 to succeed. Buffer for 90 minutes against this team and hope that it goes 1-1 to PKs just wasn't realistic. Once we got some actual pace and attacking presence on the field (Nagbe and Pulisic) we actually started to regain some possession and push. We should have been doing that for far longer than we actually were.
Martino will probably play Gaitan as the starter for the final, pretty sure he would've been the starter instead of Lavezzi but was suspended for this match.
Corronchilejano
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Colombia has an actual statistical shot
Nemesis121
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONCACAF)
Move down to the 4th round, group C, one or 2 fuck ups and they could be out of WC2018..
He worked his ass off and was fine. If anything, despite his first touch problems this tournament has shown me what he can bring to the USMNT. He played well.
Oveja Negra
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Add to that we lost two great players for tomorrow >:/
Regulus Tera
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My soul is at peace once again.
Corronchilejano
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And Colombia, even though we have a similar team to the one that we used to beat you guys in the wc, is playing subpar.
It's shaping up to be a balanced game.
Then we lose 0-5
I think you need to watch more USMNT games.
-We basically had no one better to play at LB. Our pool is shallow as fuck.
-We played Beckerman and Bradley together because Jones and Bedoya carded themselves out of this match.
-When we brought Nagbe in for the Colombia match, he was scared out of his fucking mind. He is a truley gifted player and he is going to be huge for us in the next cycle, but he isn't ready yet. Coming into this tournament he has had a total of 6 caps and zero starts.
-Until this game, Bradley hasn't needed to be subbed at all, and even though his performance was bad this match he really wasn't a sub target over the other players needing to be subbed.
Regulus Tera
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It's not 4-0. It's not 7-0. It's 11-0 and we need to realise we are big fish in a very small pond.
Do other countries have so much criticism of their youth development after every big loss? I swear every time the US loses on the international stage everyone has to point out how much better the US would be if they had a proper youth scouting and development system in place. As if that is at all relevant to the match that just finished.
The US lost because Argentina is the best team in the world and we were missing 3 starters (4 if you count Altidore).
The US lost because Argentina is the best team in the world and we were missing 3 starters (4 if you count Altidore).
Tragicomedy
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Forgot about Gaitan's two yellows. That leaves the albiceleste sitting well going forward. Is Aguero injured or just not in form? He's been seeing so little action this tournament.
Vamos, vamos Argentina,
vamos, vamos a ganar,
que esta barra quilombera,
no te deja, no te deja de alentar.
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