MNT's 2021

[CardiacAndre7]

The team is bad. The individual talents are better than the team. The NE Revolution would have beat this El Salvador team. Our guys have no flow.

I think we need to play the 3/5 atb.

 

[LIuconn]

We need to exploit our athletic advantages. How GGG didn’t do that until 60’ is very questionable. Pefok is 6-2 210 and their back line averages 5-9. The game changes as soon as he got in as he became the focal point we’ve been missing.

 

[businesslawyer]

I know. I’m just being irritable, even while old man BL yells at me. Because even on home games we have stupidly started at this time. That should never happen.

Meanwhile, we look wildly disorganized. I know these guys haven’t played together in awhile but this is like watching pinball.

Implying that people who aren’t old think it’s o.k. To be toxically self-centered?

 

[outlaw]

Obviously would have loved 3 pts && we certainly had enough chances and the individual talent in some areas to grab all 3. A point away in san salvador isn't the end of the world, though. Especially considering last night was this group's first @ concacaf experience.

Would like to see Brooks come in against Canada - however, I do not want to take away from Reams performance last night. Thought he did well. Hopefully CP can enter the lineup as well. Konrad showed glimpses but more experience is needed in games like that. Thought Sargent was lively at times, just lacked the killer final touch. Another clean sheet for Matt Turner.

broadcast feed and kickoff time was peak concacaf. plenty more of that ahead (see Honduras 10p kick Wednesday)

If healthy / available - I would line up like this Sunday:

Turner
Dest Robinson Brooks Jedi
Adams
McKennie Acosta
Pulisic (c) Reyna
Pefok

 

[businesslawyer]

Reams did as well as he could with his lack of speed, but I don’t get why Brooks got on the plane not to play.

I expect the outside fullbacks will be rotated out. And I think Berhalter is going to have to make a hard decision about playing Dest most games if A. Rob outperforms him, which I expect. Dest must be a lot better playing for Barca than he shows for us, for whatever reason.

Sargent doesn’t score enough. If that doesn’t change, I don’t see him being our #1 for very long.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Reams did as well as he could with his lack of speed, but I don’t get why Brooks got on the plane not to play.

I expect the outside fullbacks will be rotated out. And I think Berhalter is going to have to make a hard decision about playing Dest most games if A. Rob outperforms him, which I expect. Dest must be a lot better playing for Barca than he shows for us, for whatever reason.

Sargent doesn’t score enough. If that doesn’t change, I don’t see him being our #1 for very long.

I think GGG said that Brooks was always going to sit this game in prep for the Canada game. Guess he thought it was gonna be a walk in the park..whoops. On Dest, Berhalter needs to stop playing him left back, full stop. It’s ridiculous. Yedlin is past it and Dest is good on the right, and Robinson and Bello are good, developing full backs. It’s unexplainable, Dest has never really played that well on the left. And agree completely on Sargent. He must’ve had like 15 touches in 70 minutes. If your starting striker can’t muster a single chance against that back line, it’s an issue.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

It looks like a HS broadcast.

the play-by-play guy mentioned and apologized for the local feed

 

[ZooCougar]

The team is bad. The individual talents are better than the team. The NE Revolution would have beat this El Salvador team. Our guys have no flow.

 

[upstater]

I am going to wait on Sargent. He has looked pretty good in 2 games I saw him for Norwich.

 

[ZooCougar]

Reyna is out.

 

[ZooCougar]

I am going to wait on Sargent. He has looked pretty good in 2 games I saw him for Norwich.

Unless there is nobody else. He is not the guy.

 

[LIuconn]

What’s Reyna’s deal

 

[ZooCougar]

What’s Reyna’s deal

hamstring I heard.

 

[FatHank]

Looking forward to this tonight even if we are not at full strength. Hopefully an American soil match helps us.

 

[SubbaBub]

WC 23 Power Rankings. I may or may not update this as we go. This is my opinion based on the NL, GC, and the ES qualifier. If you were on any of these rosters you are in the pool for now, if not for long. Note that our best 23 will not necessarily be named to the roster based on position needs. Some young guys and some old guys will be left out. There will be a lot of movement for most spots as there is a lot of meh or unproven talent after the obvious choices. Starting locks are in bold.

To start off, Gioacchini has had the best production of the crowded striker pool to date and looks the least lost in the box. This and GK (same for Turner btw) are the most wide open starting spots available then CB. YMMV

		Gioacchini
		Sargent
Pulisic				Reyna
Hoppe				Arriola
		McKennie
		Lletget
	Adams		Acosta
	Yueill		Yueill
Dest	Brooks		M. Robinson	Yedlin
A. Robinson	Ream		Zimmerman	Cannon
		Turner
		Steffen
		Horvath

Position Detail	Position Rank	Player	1-23 Rank
LW	1	Pulisic	1
RW	1	Reyna	2
AM	1	McKennie	3
DM	1	Adams	4
CB	1	Brooks	5
DM/RB	2	Acosta	6
CB	2	M. Robinson	7
LB/RB	1	Dest	8
RB	1	Yedlin	9
ST	1	Gioacchini	10
G	1	Turner	11
LB	2	A. Robinson	12
ST	2	Sargent	13
RW	2	Arriola	14
AM	2	Lletget	15
CB	3	Ream	16
CB	4	Zimmerman	17
G	2	Steffen	18
ST	3	Weah	19
AM	3	Roldan	20
CB	5	Miazga	21
RB	2	Cannon	22
G	3	Horvath	23
AM	4	Musah	24
LW	2	Hoppe	25
ST	4	Zardes	26
RB	3	Moore	27
ST	5	Dike	28
CB	6	Long	29
LW/RW	3	Arronson	30
DM	3	Yueill	31
RW	3	Morris	32
G	4	Johnson	33
ST	6	Pefok	34
G	6	Guzan	35
G	5	Ochoa	36
ST	7	Altidore	37
AM	5	Busio
AM	6	Williamson
CB	7	McKenzie
CB	8	Sands
CB	9	Kessler
CB	10	Pines
LB	3	Bello
LB	4	Vines
LW	4	Konrad
LW	5	Lewis
ST	8	Pepi

 

[LIuconn]

Give me Pefok & Pepi from the start

 

[CardiacAndre7]

So trash. No creativity or urgency. What an absolute disappointment from the beginning of the summer.

 

[SubbaBub]

So trash. No creativity or urgency. What an absolute disappointment from the beginning of the summer.

Scoring is clearly going to be a problem for this team.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Scoring is clearly going to be a problem for this team.

Obviously Sargent can’t get it done, and Pefok is a ghost other than some random hold up play, why not give Pepi a chance? Also, why wait til the 83rd minute to sub when the team has been so poor?

 

[Palatine]

Yedlin always makes a mistake. Most of the time it comes to nothing. But it far too many times results in a goal. I think that every time we bring him in. Tonight it was a 2 point mistake.

 

[UCFBfan]

Yedlin always makes a mistake. Most of the time it comes to nothing. But it far too many times results in a goal. I think that every time we bring him in. Tonight it was a 2 point mistake.

Yedlin made a mistake but where was Brooks when Larin was wide open for the tap in....Watched the replay a few times and he was just standing there.....

Side note, UConn got a little call out on TV when they mentioned how Larin was the first overall pick in the MLS out of UConn.

 

[LIuconn]

Greggggg needs to gggggo

 

[FatHank]

My soccer friend does not feel urgency or a need for worry or panic. McKinney violates team rules, 83rd minute sub, one goal in two games, can't pull a W out at home and with that crowd in Nashville, and did not seem to be amped or show some importnace emotion on the sidelines. Not at all what a team needs to do to world cup qualify.

 

[Palatine]

GB experiemented with lineups since being hired. What he didn't do was work with a core group of players to build chemistry. It shows. Most of he rest of the field has been playing the same team together for years. I think we have the best talent. But we don't have the best team.

 

[SubbaBub]

The team is underperforming it's talent. That's on GGG.

Brooks and Dest had horrible games. I think A Robinson if not for Dest's reputation would be close to locking down the starting LB postion. For all the potential bodies we have at RB, Dest, Yedlin, Acosta, Cannon, Moore, no one seems to want to sieze it.

Same at Striker, I want to see Gioancchini, he's the one guy whose played that's looked the part against lesser competition. I'm fine giving Pepi and even Dike another shot but we need to thin the heard here and get some one in sync with the the other 5 attacking players who look solid. Still a battle for their backups. Arronson I think has moved ahead of Hoppe but Arronson seems better on the right side and I Arriola is still in the mix there.

Keeper, I fine rolling with Turner, he is the real deal but it's still an open competition for #1, but I think the 3 roster spots are set.

CB other than MRob, who is now far and away our best option. Brooks has the inside track for the other spot but only due to lack of competition. The drop off is steep. I hope someone steps up.