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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 10, 2022 21:39:51 GMT -6
78th-Ferreira gets his fourth goal after Grenada fails to clear it from their defensive third with sloppy passing and play. 5-0 USA.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 10, 2022 21:53:24 GMT -6
Final 5-0.
After watching a few games this past week in Europe and now here, it is painfully obvious, that this new Nations cup is redundant and not needed in a World Cup year.
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Post by Cooldaddy on Jun 10, 2022 22:25:29 GMT -6
I know he's new to the team, but my word, did Tillman struggle. And this was Grenada. Oof!
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 11, 2022 13:41:02 GMT -6
I know he's new to the team, but my word, did Tillman struggle. And this was Grenada. Oof! I missed how he came on. He seems to me like the kind of player I see out on the pick up fields of Louisiana. Always trying to hold on to the ball and hot dog, yet it never gets the ball where it needs to be. I saw him a few times be disgusted with his self in his touches and I do not mind flashy play if you retain possession of the ball and you open up the defense, but if you are just holding up play, flashy play is worthless.
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Post by Cooldaddy on Jun 11, 2022 14:04:10 GMT -6
His transitional awareness is severely lacking and I noticed the negative body language.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 13, 2022 9:03:06 GMT -6
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:01:15 GMT -6
Horvath in goal tonight.
Cannon, Robinson, Carter Vickers , Long are your defenders.
Musah, Adams, and Aaronson are your midfielders. Pulisic, Wright, Weah are your forwards.
Hard rain in El Salvador with poor field conditions.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:12:45 GMT -6
2 opportunities, long shots, for El Salvador in first two minutes.
3rd - commentators are thinking the USA are switching to a 442 with Pulisic and Wright playing up top. Switch is due to u playable field conditions.
5th - Field is sloppy and El Salvador seem to be better capable than the USA in playing their game, but nothing from either team has produced a dangerous chance.
6th - USA Robinson wins a corner by play up the left side. Pulisic delivery cleared, but play comes back to Pulisic who manages to keep it in bounds, pass to top of the box is shot high and wide.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:22:25 GMT -6
12th - Pulisic fouled, free kick on restart does nothing to find a player in the box.
Lots of late challenges and fouls. Going after Pulisic. Aaronson wins another free kick from the left side. Pulisic gives to Aaronson who goes back to Pulisic, long cross misses target.
15th - this game is not good for the USA path to prepare for the World Cup as nothing in Qatar will be like this rain and mud.
16th - USA and Horvath lucky El Salvador does not get to shoot near the mouth of the USA goal. Sloppy play makes it more difficult to get an easy touch.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:23:46 GMT -6
Some of the USA players jerseys are already full of mud. Trainers are going to have to use a lot of bleach and tide to get these clean and fresh.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:30:55 GMT -6
20th - another foul and free kick, from the right leads to a goalie punch coming out of the box.
21st - El Salvador wins corner in chaotic 1v1 play. Inswinger cleared by USA for another corner. Inswinger goes for a goal kick.
23rd - Wright wins a corner after a step over and sprint to the corner from a defense delivery. Pulisic rakes corner short gove and go eventually gets to Musah whose shot is deflected for another corner.
25 th - Pulisic corner off the back of Aaronson leads to pin ball play before wright whistled for a high kick infraction.
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Post by beasleyisbeastly on Jun 14, 2022 20:37:01 GMT -6
Might be an unpopular opinion but I’m loving this game. A real battle of wills in the mud. Reminds me of games I used to play in as a kid and in high school. Those white jerseys are all turning brown. Love it.
As long as no one gets hurt of course..
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:37:05 GMT -6
30th min. - El Salvador keep possession and USA get faked out a few times but manage to stay goal side enough to thwart any attempts on goal.
31st - Wright gets a left footed shot just wide of goal.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:38:47 GMT -6
Might be an unpopular opinion but I’m loving this game. A real battle of wills in the mud. Reminds me of games I used to play in as a kid and in high school. Those white jerseys are all turning brown. Love it. As long as no one gets hurt of course.. These kinds of games do show you who is stronger than most of the others. Weah looks like that guy to me. I am sure none of the games in Qatar will look like this. Speaking of Qatar, Costa Rica and Australia make it.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:40:40 GMT -6
35 th min - El Salvador scores a rocket from the left side that Horvath didn’t even move for. Replay shows that it looked like Horvath thought it would be a cross but instead it was a high near post shot. His feet were stuck in the mud.
1-0 El Salvador
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Post by beasleyisbeastly on Jun 14, 2022 20:42:31 GMT -6
Horvath just erased himself from the World Cup squad. That is pathetic. No professional keeper should be out of position like that. Absolutely pathetic.
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:47:00 GMT -6
40th - rain coming down. Play has devolved into sprints in the mud before defense can clear the ball up the field. USA trying to maintain possession, but the field slows them down .
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 20:52:49 GMT -6
Cannon yellow carded at end of first half giving free kick to El Salvador. Cross cleared. Halftime. 1-0 El Salvador.
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Post by beasleyisbeastly on Jun 14, 2022 20:55:29 GMT -6
We all agree that Reggie cannon is bad right? He’s done nothing in any of the games he’s played in. How is Yeslin not playing over him? Haji is also playing terribly. Blew two chances that should have been goals.
I’d like to see Jesus for Haji, Yedlin for Canon, LDLT for musah
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Post by usasoccerboy on Jun 14, 2022 21:08:44 GMT -6
El Salvador are going to win this game. We cannot get the ball far enough up the field because the mud slows us down so that El Salvador can keep goal side. Our finishing continues to stink, so in these conditions, I do not expect a finish from the guys we got on the field. It is not like Pulisic gets shots off anymore. Weah, haven’t seen him since I said he was the strongest on the field. Aaronson is too withdrawn in the midfield to have a sniff of goal. Wright? Seen enough to know he is not the answer. I would put on Luca DeLaTorre because he can mix it up in transition.
Ferreira and McKinney are coming on. Wright and Aaronson are off.
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