Our pressure here is fantastic.
Dempsey was a complete non factor tonight, not suprising but a dissapointment. We still have a way to go to get to top tier. It was a good showing though. We'll be back!
Win or lose you've got to love how this team will never quit.
They are committing almost the entire team up the field. When you do that you get destroyed by counter attacks and they already got 1 goal off it quickly. It wouldnt have worked with Belgium's skill to play this open for 90 minutes.
I am sure Belgium mentally relaxed there for a few minutes, we got a goal. And now you are in the last 10 minutes of the game where the team down goes crazy and the team up just is in defend mode.
Haha! The future is birght!
but it I'd have to say it really is. When we're not just in conservative mode, we can be really dangerous. Lot's of young talent on the team.
First time they've ever made to the knockout stages two WCs in a row. Again get over yourself.
One minute? And Portugal got five? LOL
That was for a 45-minute half though. This was a 15-minute extra time session.
I do think teams often get shortchanged on stoppage time though.
...and Jones x2. That's all I remember--I'll bet if we put a clock on it we wouldn't get more than 80 or 90 seconds.
Given where the ball was when he blew for time, I doubt the extra 20 seconds would have mattered much.
That's bullshit.
It sure is a mystery where all your points went
Yep you know more than JK does apparently! Go get em coach!
Idiot
Not a personal attack, he is just calling it like he sees it.
Yeah, one might even say I "could" care less about being reported.
Sure you did buddy.
I'm wasting so many MGoPoints on you right now
Yeah I doubt it
and you sit here ripping his handling of the time. Meanwhile you reference your experiene in American high school soccer and tepid interest from D-III schools as a claim of expertise.
It seems that logical consistency is not a strength of yours.
Entertaining final 30 minutes. Very rough first 90 minutes. We are still about 2-3 levels behind this type of team. When teams bring in a Lukaku as a sub it's pretty telling.
What I love is we always have fight - we just need a lot more playmaking in the midfield.
We went this whole tourney with our best field player totally MIA. And our forward out almost the entire tourney. Based on that we did fine.
Also want to say as a whole our defense played very very well. They were the scary part of the team going into the tourney.
You're a guy who says "Spartina" and "O$U" too
Didn't you know he got recruited by colleges? It's all the system's fault man.
Michigan athletics.
But fuck that game. My poor throat.
Highlights for future
Yedlin is 21.
Besler is 28 I believe.
Gonalez is 25. That is 3/4 of your future defense. If you keep Fabian as a defender (26) you have a consistent starting defense for another 4 years.
Outside midfielders need a lot of work. You cant put Mix in because while fun on offense he cant be trusted defensively and is "soft" - Zusi and Bedoya will be 30+ in next WC. Cameron 28, I dont see much upside.
Bradley still youngish (26) but yuck this tourney.
Unfortuntely Jones in 32 as is Beckerman.
Dempsey is 31 so might be done by next WC (35) - Altidore and Green still young. Maybe Johannsan will be effective too by then.
So all in all our midfield will need a complete revamp due to age but defense and forwards we will be ok. Hopefully the GErman system has some future Americans in the midfield.
GK we lose Howard unfortunately as well.
Don't forget about Fabian (26) and Brooks (21).
Wingers and target men.
If Germany's the endpoint there are no wingers. Width is provided by overlapping fullbacks. I know they're struggling with that this year because they're stuck with a back line full of center backs, but go back and look at prior teams. Look at Klinsmann's '06 team for that matter. All the midfielders are either central players or pseudo-strikers. Yedlin = Odonkor.