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Here is my lineup, assuming we're playing Argentina
Guzan
Yedlin Cameron Brooks Johnson
Bradley
Zusi Nagbe
Zardes Dempsey Pulisic
Available Subs:
Birnbaum
Besler
Orozco
Castillo
Beckerman
Kitchen
Wondo
Howard
Horvath
Out:
Bedoya, Jones and Wood
We're officially out of Schlitz!
With Wood out, there isn't much point starting out in a 4-4-2, but with that lineup you shift to one easily.
This is a game that has to be won in 90 minutes. There are very few goals coming off of this bench. Birnbaum or Besler might score off a set piece but Wondo is the only attacker available.
One could start Beckerman, which could move Bradley up to a box to box role, in this case you could leave Zusi for later which would give you a second attacker. But, with Beckerman on the field we have no ability to pass through the middle. He just doesn't have the skill for it and Argentina is too tough to break down.
I would put Zusi in at the box to box role. Not his normal position, but he knows the 4-3-3 inside out and upside down with Sporting. And he fills in in the midfield several times a season. He can also run for days and his workrate is big.
We simply don't have enough center mids to not start Nagbe. And he is the only true attacking center mid available.
What the hell... why not start Pulisic? We're playing with house money now. He has no fear and there is nobody else.
Zardes goes on the other side. There is nobody else to put there.
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The biggest absence in my opinion is Jones. He really gave the midfield some bite, which has been good because Bradley has been invisible to putrid.
The second biggest absence is Wood. He's basically been creating space for Dempsey.
Guzan
Yedlin Cameron Brooks Johnson
Bradley
Zusi Nagbe
Zardes Dempsey Pulisic
Available Subs:
Birnbaum
Besler
Orozco
Castillo
Beckerman
Kitchen
Wondo
Howard
Horvath
Out:
Bedoya, Jones and Wood
We're officially out of Schlitz!
With Wood out, there isn't much point starting out in a 4-4-2, but with that lineup you shift to one easily.
This is a game that has to be won in 90 minutes. There are very few goals coming off of this bench. Birnbaum or Besler might score off a set piece but Wondo is the only attacker available.
One could start Beckerman, which could move Bradley up to a box to box role, in this case you could leave Zusi for later which would give you a second attacker. But, with Beckerman on the field we have no ability to pass through the middle. He just doesn't have the skill for it and Argentina is too tough to break down.
I would put Zusi in at the box to box role. Not his normal position, but he knows the 4-3-3 inside out and upside down with Sporting. And he fills in in the midfield several times a season. He can also run for days and his workrate is big.
We simply don't have enough center mids to not start Nagbe. And he is the only true attacking center mid available.
What the hell... why not start Pulisic? We're playing with house money now. He has no fear and there is nobody else.
Zardes goes on the other side. There is nobody else to put there.
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The biggest absence in my opinion is Jones. He really gave the midfield some bite, which has been good because Bradley has been invisible to putrid.
The second biggest absence is Wood. He's basically been creating space for Dempsey.
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