Not to mention he's clearly our #1 when it comes to set piece delivery. JA doesn't score without that beautiful delivery from Landy.

Agudelo played us back into an empty bucket for GC imo. Will be excited to see what we do Monday wrt formation.

what stadium is the game Monday? grass or turf?

its hard to take anything away when 1) holden being injured changed the shape and dynamic of having a 4231 and 2) this formation hasn't really been used by bradley before and the empty bucket is the familiar formation.

Given the strengths of the team, spending more time with a 4231 or 433 type formation will yield good results. Its a bit much to make a major determination off of 50 odd minutes of playing in a more defensive 433 formation that hasn't really been used before

True, any schmo that's played 2 hours of FM knows it takes time to develop a formation. GC just seems too important to use for development. We're gonna take lumps, no doubt, but I agree with you in principle.

Nashville's grass.

Chandler made this a much different 4-4-2 than it had been in years past. His speed up the flank allowed Clint to kinda fall in to the middle and remove some of the emptiness of the bucket.

so.. gooch sucks


just sayin

well, at least with the ball at his feet. Can't recall anyone else so timid and wasteful with the ball in recent memory.

yea gooch was LOL bad with the ball tonight. And then DeMerit tried to imitate him and almost gave them a goal.

opportunity for Tim Ream imo

Omar comin', yo.

Michael Bradley was MOTM for us again. He consistently puts in incredible performances for us. Neither Dempsey or Donovan were at their best but they were both fine and we sort of already know what we're going to get from them.

I was very encouraged by Chandler's performance from the right. He looks like the real deal and adds a different dimension.

I was very discouraged by Jay, Gooch, and Boca. Not that this was an easy assignment or anything close but they looked poor for much of the match. I'm not sure there are other alternatives I like better (except Ream) but we have to be better in the back.

That's my boy Agudelo. Like I said, very bright future. He actually didn't have that good of a match aside from putting home the goal on a scramble, but you can still see flashes of the athleticism and strength that makes him special.

I said it even before the game... A 4-4-2 with Agudelo and Altidore up top is going to be big big problems for any opposing backline, even if it doesn't produce the most free flowing attacking stuff ever witnessed.

I have no problems with a Gold Cup empty bucket with Edu and Bradley hoding (Jones was bad last night, and those three central is repetitive), Landy and Clint creating starting from wide, and Altidore/Agudelo up top.

Game is Tuesday the 29th.

Food for thought, an under 25 team

----------Altidore(21)------Agudelo(18)------
---Shea(21)-------Holden(25)------Mix(20)---
-------------------Bradley(23)---------------
Chandler(20)--Ream(23)--Omar(22)--Lichaj(22)
-------------------Johnson(21)--------------

Subs:
F: Teal Bunbury, Omar Salgado, Jack McInerney, Charlie Davies (?)
M: Maurice Edu, Jose Torres, Dax McCarty, Sebastien Lletget, Amobi Okugo, Luis Gil
D: Zach Loyd, Gale Agbossoumonde, Anthony Wallace

Quesion Marks: Danny Mwanga, Andy Najar

pretty good, too bad they come from the states and therefore cannot win anything

Vluggie.

Haven't you been banned often enough for inane trolling? Stop now.

he's doin work

not trolling... what have you actually won? it's TRUTH..... TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

A) that's not what you said the first time
B) as many WCs as you have
C) regardless, gtfo.

runners up get medal too and we have european cup... YOU GTFO

You've only won your continent once?

LOL, cute.

wonder if there's a european team that would lose to the usa... pbb not.. if they do it's pbb a rigged game

Bye now.

was reading Le Toux wiki and this was there:

Is he an option at some point?

Seems like that spot is overloaded with players clearly much better than him.

Covering the game on Tuesday. Sooooooooooooooooooo hype for this.

Since he just got his green card in 2010, from my understanding he's still at least three years away from citizenship if not five. So it's probably not happening.