Don't you live by a Taco Bell in a U.S. suburb? Lol

Can someone post a vid or pic of the bobby wood whiff thanks

gonna watch Serbia Wales WC qualifier rebroadcast on my fresh, new fuboTV subscription!

lil reminder tonight why soccer is Goat

his post seems correct since a tie is the result mexico was hoping for. sucks US blew the better chances but such is the game

surprised nobody wanted action, I was in here trying to set money on fire couple days ago

Arena for president? He has to get a huge amount of credit for this trnaround.

We had chances?

Wat

A draw was the proper result..

wrote down some thoughts from the match

the corner at the end was a great cap to an lol mexico day

Beasley was basically great. LOL anyone who blames him for the goal, that's all on the central mids/defenders not providing cover. And Wood for whiffing a ball he chested down that led to a breakaway.

Acosta is a 21 year old monster box-to-box player. Was shaky early in the game and then grew up by 60 minutes in. Thank God we don't have Jurgen trying to play him as a RB anymore.

Hopefully all the kids get unleashed at the Gold Cup this summer (J. Gonzalez, Miazga, Acosta, Pulisic, Roldan). Not against Bruce saying "**** it" and bringing Sargent in either. Just need one "injury" to another forward.

Methinks Pulisic is a decent candidate to be transfered with a new manager at Dortmund. I honestly don't see the point in taking him to GC. Kid's done enough. Send him back to Europe for a full summer to get in the plans of his new manager (no matter where he goes). The worst thing that could happen to him is a season of fewer than ten appearances because he got behind the 8 ball cause he couldn't train with the first team club in preseason. It's scuttled the season of promising USMNT youngsters recently (see: Hyndman, Emerson).

Has there been anymore written on Beasley starting yesterday and playing the full game? Pretty incredible.

Here's another hot take: Fabian Johnson is no longer a penned-in starter. Does he stay at RM? Go back to LB? Seems like Arena, miracle of miracles, wants to play his guys at the positions where they play for their club. Johnson's spot on this team is competitive and while he's definitely the "best" player in the mix that doesn't necessarily mean he's the best for the team.

Kellyn Acosta is interesting too. That group that's hitting 19-22 was super ****ing talented though they almost always underperformed in jr tournaments (thanks, Tab). It was only a matter of time until some of them broke through. I didn't think it would be Pulisic, Acosta, and Arriola but here we are. I really thought Hyndman, Rubin, and Wright were the class of that bunch.

fwiw, Jeff Carlisle agrees w/ Clark (perhaps I'm being a bit too critical and not considering Cameron's total body of work y'day.

Gotta disagree with leaving Pulisic out for GC. We need to win this to book a spot in the Confed Cup Qualifier next time around. Especially with Mexico being forced to send a B team. He can sit out the 2019 GC if they decide that's best. I will say however that I'll be in favor of heavy rotation during the group stage. Nobody should even sniff 270 minutes.

I wouldn't be against Pulisic sitting out of the group stage now that I think about it. Join after. We've done that with players lots of times before.

Concur. Also this is important gelling time for the World Cup which is only 12 months and not much camp time away.

If there's a joint wc between Mexico USA oh Canada, who gets the automatic bid? How's that work

I suspect all 3 will. Keep in mind that it will be a 48 team WC, so 3 more teams would still be able to qualify from CONCACAF even if they give all 3 auto bids. Maybe they'll say **** Canada and make them enter qualification, but I doubt it.

USA/Mex should just give one autobid to lolCanada and agree to try and qualify. It's not like they're going to fail with 5 more slots anyway.

SK/Japan both got an auto bid in '02

ya it'd pretty much just be giving LolCanada a free pass given that Mexico & USA#1 are about locks to qualify, and not really that big a deal to let such a bad team in if it's an expanded field. they wouldn't be the first bad team put into a big tournament.

still, i don't really even want it that way. not the free bid, or the larger field. but it's probably all inevitable.

One step closer to 64 team single elimination march madness style

Free bid is awesome because then we can use games to develop younger guys etc