1. Neymar offside 2. He flops. Like Brazil needs any help. And Cameron is awful on offense at least 4 or 5 giveaways when he joins the offense. I also hate the holding forward - not enough offense. DD
When has the USA defense been good? I think Tim Howard covered up a lot of the bad habits. The Belgium World Cup game comes to mind.
I don't see what the big deal is, its just a friendly. Brazil had Neymar up front, the US had a guy that isn't even a professional soccer player
Yeah but Morris looked great, what we lack is overall attacking quality, our passing technique is poor, we give it away far too easily and once our players make a pass, they rarely show for the return. Where are the 1,2s that clear room? Just looking awful lately. DD
I think it's time to move on from Klinsmann. I believe he is a brilliant technical coach when it comes to individual player development. He is terrible when it comes to being a tactician. This pool is at the point where we need a tactician. That is the one area where the US has still not developed. There is enough talent now to have a gameplan that involves creativity and movement. Too many times we have Bradley or an outside mid pushing the ball and there's no movement off the ball. A more tactical coach would recognize the drain Altidore is on having any offensive fluidity. He's either playing too much in the midfield with his back to the goal or he's hiding on the opposite side of the field from the ball, never looking for the space to get behind the defense. He expects to win every physical battle and it just isn't happening. Morris, the freaking amateur, is much much better at finding those spaces. A good tactical coach would have never had Orozco and Alvarado in the middle of a defense with Bedoya in front of them. What a horrible idea that was. Even on paper, it didn't make any sense. He would recognize that Cameron is better suited as a center back and pairs well with Gonzalez. He is good on the ball (despite the poor passing the other night, he was a center mid when originally coming up with the Dynamo) and good in the air. The next step in the evolution of the US becoming a consistent power is a coach that understands what he has and how to use them. We were the most fit team well before Klinsmann got here and will be long after he leaves. Too much of his training camps are spent on conditioning. I find it impossible to believe that we have players that don't understand how and when to make a run off the ball. I think he had them playing scared of Brazil's abilities because, either consciously or subconsciously, he has a complete lack of respect for any player actually from America. It's time to move on...
Sunil Gulati refuses to listen. Who would've predicated Klinsmann isn't/wouldn't be a great tactical coach for the USA....except his former players. Also, nothing has annoyed me as much during his reign as the comments he made about the fitness of the US players. If there is one thing that I think the majority of players from most countries respect about the American players, it's always been how fit they are. Yet to JK that's not the situation. Meh, nothing is going to change even if he loses the Mexico match. Sunil won't let him go.
All Klinsmann ever talks about is the fitness of the players. Having a bunch of marathon runners on the team isn't going to win you matches when you have no off-ball creativity, or defensive presence in the middle of the field.
I guess that's sposed to be Kyle Beckerman and he's done a decent job of it under Klinsmann...but he needs someone else to step up there. I guess that will be Alfredo Morales or Danny Williams or perhaps someone else playing in MLS. It's always fantastic to watch him pick Michael Bradley to play in an advanced midfield or #10 role(not his natural position) while Lee Nguyen and Benny Feilhaber just keep performing in that specific role in MLS, providing assists and goals(not that MB isn't doing the same).
