It seems a shame to have a player as effective as he is and have him be rendered bad in a system. Maybe someone should look into why that seems to be the case...

hoping the next manager let's the players play what fits them best

they're not changing out of a 4-3-3 at this point

I mean 4-3-3 is probably the correct system but like play pulisic - weah - Aaronson in front of Reyna - Adams - McKennie with Adams as a deep 6 and Reyna and McKennie as free 8s.

we won't play weah as a striker because he's our best crosser which is actually all of our offense

of course this just goes back to the manager

Weah is not even a good crosser. I watch Lille quite a bit and his crosses are rarely on target.

I don't think you lose much by just moving him to striker and getting your best guys on the pitch. Duck's lineup would be perfect for Iran. That midfield would struggle too much vs. England though.

Incidentally, Greggg used the optimal England lineup for Wales, but should have used Duck's lineup vs. Wales or at least added one of Reyna/Aaronson for a bit of additional quality. Sarge, I would basically only use him when we're gonna see little of the ball, like vs. England, or late in matches when we're ahead and trying to kill a lead. Like vs. Wales, you could have sacrificed 2 attackers (Weah seemed like he was never going more than 60-70 anyway) and gone to a 5-man backline with Sarge up top holding up play and trying to create counters.

Instead, Greggg just let the game open way up in the 2nd half and Wales had tons of chances. So much talk of teams just wanting to sit on a 1-0 lead in this World Cup and then in a spot where it actually does make a ton of sense, our fearless leader doesn't do it. A decent manager might have gotten 2 goals in the 1st half when the USA was dominating and done a much better job of protecting the lead in the 2nd.

i dont understand your snarky point

our odds of making it thru havent really changed from pre tourney.

hoping for the best

sounds like Kane has an ankle knock

Yanklandians might like this article written by Eric Wynalda.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...r-eric-wynalda

CRC prob can't pull any Navas Magic this time around but rooting hard

and hopefully Canada loses 100-0 later

both games might be 100-0

Costa Rica is the worst team in this by a mile. I wish they would've just lost in the playoff to New Zealand.

CONCACAF was so bad though. Panama was way worse than normal, Mex/USA not great, and the bottom teams were lol. Luckily Canada arrived on the scene in a big way.

USA had half a roster for almost every game due to injuries

I blame the scheduling across the world

also would take CRC over Qatar

USA still has half a roster due to coaching decisions.

maybe I wouldnt take CRC over Qatar

Concacaf just sucks. None of those **** teams belong over Italy or Chile, ever, under any circumstances.

get the **** out of this thread

what a beatdown, jesus.

CRC was the hottest concacaf team at the end of the qualifying and we looked kinda helpless parking the bus against them in our last match. welp.

1. we didnt care about that game, we were never going to lose 6-0. that was quite clear. also lolsteffen.
2. CRC outside of their stadium and middle school field and no trash refs is not the same
3. Navas is hurt/toast?

+1. dude is just unentertaining spambot garbage at this point.

problem is we're kinda the same right now.

I think we really need a lolengerland tomorrow if we're going to move on

we suck bc of GGG

a loss doesnt change much to our equity

CRC 9 pts in CONCACAF Octo outside of their stadium
USA 6 pts in CONCACAF Octo outside of their stadium

GGG is worth -9 pts

you are wanting very hard posting these random cherry picks to win some weird argument even tho everyone knows we're much better?

I mean, it's not even an argument. I literally just stated facts.