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US GAF: Support your national soccer team

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Tristam

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Torres is a human turnover machine.
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What? Besides getting bumped in the back that led to the throw-in 3 minutes ago, he's the only one who has shown the slightest propensity for possession.
 
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Pre

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Tristam said:
What? Besides getting bumped in the back that led to the throw-in 3 minutes ago, he's the only one who has shown the slightest propensity for possession.
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I'm not seeing it at all. He tries to get too cute with the ball.
 
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Nesotenso

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one man up top is not going to be enough. How did Buddle get in again? Does he get sufficient playing time at his club, which I believe is a 2nd division German side?
 
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Tristam

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I'm not seeing it at all. He tries to get too cute with the ball.
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Man, if anything I think his weakness is that he hasn't shown much creativity--although neither has anyone else. When Torres receives the ball, he usually turns from the Mexican defender and passes behind him to the nearest teammate. Almost everyone else just kicks it up the field, which I assume brought about the poster above's comment that we look like fucking clowns out there. We can't retain possession of the ball for shit.
 
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sazabirules

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Torres is playing out of position. He shouldn't be a winger. If Jones was playing better, Bradley wouldn't have to track back so much.
 
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Syracuse022

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Torres and Buddle have shown signs of promise. Donovan definitely still has gas left in the tank - he's had a few nifty touches. Everyone else has ranged from poor to unremarkable - Jones (has done nothing) and Cherundolo (not fit) need to take a seat.
 
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Pre

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Tristam said:
Man, if anything I think his weakness is that he hasn't shown much creativity--although neither has anyone else. When Torres receives the ball, he usually turns from the Mexican defender and passes behind him to the nearest teammate. Almost everyone else just kicks it up the field, which I assume brought about the poster above's comment that we look like fucking clowns out there. We can't retain possession of the ball for shit.
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Well, we can't sit back and be relaxed on the ball when Mexico is always right there to take away possession. Thus, Torres back-passes and then someone has to boot it up field or risk Mexico making a jailbreak for goal.
 
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sazabirules

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Jorge is such a homer. Darke and Harkes admit the other team is good while he just keeps going on and on about Mexico. It was nice when he left the booth.
 
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Tristam

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Well, we can't sit back and be relaxed on the ball when Mexico is always right there to take away possession. Thus, Torres back-passes and then someone has to boot it up field or risk Mexico making a jailbreak for goal.
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Mexico wouldn't be right there to take away possession if we had proper off-the-ball movement, which I think Torres is also doing better than everyone else. I completely disagree that someone HAS to boot it up or risk Mexico making a jailbreak for goal. False dichotomy.

EDIT: And we're still just booting it....
 
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Regulus Tera

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xbhaskarx said:
good: positivity
bad: lowering expectations to Special Olympics levels
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It's just a friendly, dude. And it's his very first match with the USMNT. Against their archrivals.

Expectations are set unrealistically high. You remind me of Mexican fans.
 
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Tristam

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Whoa, I missed that. WTF just happened?

EDIT: Torres did fuck up there, but he got the ball back quickly with what I thought clearly was NOT a foul...
 
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Amibguous Cad

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Regulus Tera said:
It's just a friendly, dude. And it's his very first match with the USMNT. Against their archrivals.

Expectations are set unrealistically high. You remind me of Mexican fans.
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I don't think it's an overreaction. I don't mind that much that we're trailing, but we're trailing and we look terrible. We can't keep possession, we have no attacking options whatsoever. We had 0 shots in the first half

I was expecting to get beaten, but I wasn't expecting to get embarrassed, as it looks like we are.
 
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Regulus Tera

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Amibguous Cad said:
I don't think it's an overreaction. I don't mind that much that we're trailing, but we're trailing and we look terrible. We can't keep possession, we have no attacking options whatsoever. We had 0 shots in the first half

I was expecting to get beaten, but I wasn't expecting to get embarrassed, as it looks like we are.
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The Mexican team is a project reaching completion (we still need replacements for some key players). The United States team is starting back from scratch. What's happening on the field is just a reflection of that.

Give your team time. You cannot expect to have Barcelona-like possession just after three training sessions.
 
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xbhaskarx

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I love Darke's comments:

Agudelo for Buddle "made no impact at all, truth to tell"
Shea for Jones "who for me has been desperately disappointing"
 
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Judderman

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I'm getting tired of Agudelo's fucking ballhogging, always trying to dribble out of a situation and always ends up giving up the goal kick.
 
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