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[QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 2365850, member: 523"]
You may have to get used to not playing in a World Cup.  2022 is no lock for qualification either.

Judging on the player pool from the hex

We have no goaltenders.  Those 3 guys are done.

We have no central defense.  All those guys except Brooks are done.

Yedlin and Villafana will likely stay in the mix on the wings.

Bradley is done.  At his rate of decline he won't be playing for the US in the next round.

You have Acosta, Nagbe, and Arriola behind Pulisic in midfield.  Whose wow'd?  Anyone?  Mueller?

Up front,  Dempsey is done.  Depending on the level of upheaval at USSF and the new coach, he'll get his goal and then he is done.  You have Jozy still being Jozy only now past his prime. You have Wood who is still short of a game changer and you have Morris.

Regardless of which youngsters fill in the holes, that doesn't look like a qualifying roster to me.

MLS made all these small nations a lot better.  It made us worse by coddling our players into a comfortable soccer lifestyle.

As for Arena, I thought Panama committed coaching malpractice in the last game.     If your though is to play Jozy wide, keep thinking until you think of something else.   His desperate sub pattern had his best players too far from goal.
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