July 26, 20214 yr Okay guys... just need to settle down a bit. The pace is too frantic. Still have 15 minutes.
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Kringelbert Fishtybuns said: Take a crack oh shit it’s 17 Even still WTF was that? I like how he looked up and tried to explain himself or blame it on something. You aren't hitting a buried golf ball out of the bunker.
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said: Why do they have soccer at JerryWorld when the field turf is so terrible? They're playing on grass.
July 26, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, ztejas said: They're playing on grass. Why do they have soccer at JerryWorld when the grass is so terrible?
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said: Why do they have soccer at JerryWorld when the grass is so terrible? Because it's a massive, easily accessible stadium in the center of North America. Also money
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, ztejas said: Great effort by Zardes there. Him playing decoy was key to Hoppe being open. I don't think he played decoy knowingly. Also you should thank his shitty hair which clearly distracted the Jamaican goalkeep.
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, UDontKnow said: I don't think he played decoy knowingly. Oh he definitely didn't. But he ended up being the decoy.
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, UDontKnow said: I don't think he played decoy knowingly. Also you should thank his shitty hair which clearly distracted the Jamaican goalkeep. If his run had not been so shitty, he would have gotten in the way of Hoppe - so six of one, half dozen of another.
July 26, 20214 yr How does the mother fucker in a full neon orange jumpsuit get a free run at the god damn corner?
July 26, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said: Acosta has looked great at the 6 tonight. He was pretty good. Lletget was awful. Busio wasn't much better. Dike had a hard time getting anything going. Vines and Robinson were both good out of the back. Hoppe obviously POTG. And I kind of like Zardes as a sub. Just please quit starting him. Edited July 26, 20214 yr by ztejas
July 26, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, ztejas said: He was pretty good. Lletget was awful. Busio wasn't much better. Dike had a hard time getting anything going. Vines and Robinson were both good out of the back. Hoppe obviously POTG. And I kind of like Zardes as a sub. Just please quit starting him. True. The tired opponents shit themselves when they see the villain from Demolition Man running at them.
July 26, 20214 yr Qatar is a much better matchup than Jamaica for this team. Doesn’t mean they will do better, but better matchup for the inexperienced.
July 26, 20214 yr Looking forward to Thursday in Austin. I’ll be in the supporters section behind the south goal.
July 26, 20214 yr Acosta was excellent especially on breaking shit up. Busio was terrible in the first half but really good in the second half Lletget is just bad. HOPPE is the best player on the roster Sands and Robinson have really upped their profile, they are legit backups for WCQ Turner was great.
July 26, 20214 yr LOTS OF FUCKING OBSERVATIONS: 1) Shaq Moore is steady on the right side, but you can tell that he is used to playing with midgets (Spanish 2nd Division) because HOLY FUCK he sucks at crossing the ball in the air. 2) Dike is 6'1"+ (listed 6'1"-6'2"), Hoppe is 6'1"+ (listed 6'3")... send them the fucking ball IN THE AIR!!! 3) Edison Cavani seems like a giant on the pitch and gets a ton of header goals and you know what he's LISTED at? 6 fucking feet and 1 fucking inch tall! His wingers are sending in soft bouncing worm burners through 4 to 6 defenders, they are curling the ball into him. 4) Hoppe made a backside run in the 2nd half and the ball didn't quite make it to the middle of the box. So the next time Hoppe cuts inside his defender and makes a run to the middle of the goal mouth and the ball is floated to the back post. WTF?!? The crossing just sucked fungus infected balls. 5) Graham Zusi was too slow 4 years ago, but if he were playing wing tonight on the right side, Dike and/or Hoppe may have had a hat-trick. Sebastian Lletget also can't fucking figure out how to provide service in the air. And what the fuck where those corner kicks? Again, get the fucking ball into the air to two tall strikers! 6) Why in the fuck did he get to take the corner kicks instead of Gianluca Busio? My guess is that KellynAcosta wasn't on corner kick duty, because they wanted his speed in position to squash counterattacks. (Shout out to FC Dallas' academy coaches!) 7) The announcers alluded to it, but there will be 3 matches for qualifying where some players just play two of the matches. Acosta is going to get some starts for the USMNT when a healthy Tyler Adams just stays in the USA for the 1st & 3rd matches of a 3 match set and Kellyn goes down to the rain forest to put in a solid 90 minutes to pull out a draw... or a win, if lucky. European players are NOT going to fly over to North America, play 3 matches in 2-3 countries, and then fly back to Europe for a club match 3 days later. Some will skip the middle match. Some will play the first and second match and then head back to Europe early, some may skip the first match. Knocking out 15,000 air miles and 270 game minutes over a 9 day period is not something that anyone thinks is a good idea. 8 ) CristianRoldan understood getting the ball in the air. It's not always the right call, like if your striker is David Villa or Kün Agüero, but we had twin towers against shorter-than-average defenders. Cross the fucking ball in the air!! 9) Matthew Hoppe has so much Clint Dempsey in him, I love having him on the field. He is like a mashup of Kenny Cooper & Dempsey. Cooper because he was a kid who trained to be a crafty attacking midfielder with tricky footwork and standing about 5'10", before growing to be close to 6'3" in his late teens. Dempsey, because he's just got some dog in him. He's more playground than trailer park, but he tries shit that others don't think about. He's always looking for contact and goes to the ground a lot and they aren't dives per se as much as they are falls after legitimate contact that he has sought out. With many other refs, he would have garnered 3 or more set pieces. Also, he understands working with a true #9. In the second match of the tournament, he sent in the hard/higher service into Dike and Dike glanced the header into the back corner. Hoppe wasn't sending bouncing low balls through 5 guys hoping that a 220 lbs guy would deftly make a couple of moves and slot the ball home. If you've got a brute in the box, play fucking BRUTE BALL! 10) I'm a big fan of Miles Robinson. He has been fucking nails in this tournament. FUCK YOU, ATLANTA UNITED FOR NOT RELEASING HIM FOR OLYMPIC QUALIFYING!! (Ditto with George Bello) I do not feel panicky with relying on Robinson to save the day... at least not against Gold Cup level competition. He needs to get the fuck over to Europe. 11) I'm a pretty big fan of James Sands' as well. He didn't adjust to the dry conditions of the field tonight, so he wasn't as good as in the 2nd & 3rd game, but I'll still keep him on my team. 12) That field sucked ass. It was like playing on padded sand paper. Anywhere in Europe that field is hit with a sprinkler system before warmups, then right before the start of the match, and then again at halftime. That game was played at about 80% speed and the balls checked up all match long. In the past the fields have been far too wet and players were taking chunks out of the pitch. My guess is that with a double header planned for the pitch, they decided TO GO IN DRY and have the ball rather than MAKE IT MOIST and tear shit up. 13) I'm always happy to NOT see Jackson Yueill. 14) Sam Vines is unquestionably Jordan "Hunchback" Morris' and Willem Dafoe's love child. And it kind of makes me sick. 15) I like the danger that Nicholas Gioacchini provides as a striker. He is NOT a winger. He is appealing as a striker or a second striker. 16) Gyasi Zardes will be on this team all the way through the 2022 World Cup (if we qualify). Berhalter trusts him and he earns that trust. Edited July 26, 20214 yr by Napoleon
July 26, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said: i still do not understand why games at this level in this league still feature players crashing in to each other and to the ground every other touch You ever watch the NBA??? And they’re allowed to use their hands
July 26, 20214 yr 9 hours ago, Napoleon said: 9) Matthew Hoppe has so much Clint Dempsey in him, I love having him on the field. He is like a mashup of Kenny Cooper & Dempsey. Yes. I was going to comment something similar last night. He's a bit of a motherfucker. Our team is becoming increasingly European from a stylistic perspective which is generally a good thing but Hoppe has some old-school USMNT grit and toughness. I actually think Sargent has a bit of that, too. If we can marry those two styles a bit then look the fuck out. Edited July 26, 20214 yr by ztejas
July 27, 20214 yr I think our two primary strikers should be Sargent and Hoppe. Dike should be a super sub that does 20-30 minutes at the end to hopefully bulldoze the defense.
July 27, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, UDontKnow said: This is a different, but more thorough recap of the match from start to finish. Like most podcasts, I find 1.25x to 1.5x speed is better to listen to these kinds of videos. 20:21 for a recap is just too long.
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