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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 2373223, member: 296"] I lost track of what you guys were arguing about. Seems like formations are pretty dynamic. You have a defensive shape, a transitional shape and an attacking shape. I think that with the personnel we had out there, it would have looked like that with any formation. What I thought I saw was Jozy realizing that there was too much space back there so he was like “he guys, I guess I’ll run back here and try to connect with Michael.” In our case we basically had a midfield of one. Michael Bradley struggling to connect with everyone else in front of him. It was a joke because with only one true center mid out there why would anyone be surprised that we couldn’t keep possession or do anything when we had it? T&T saw the space we gave Panama and they game planned it. Their coaches and players bragged about it before and after the game. Nagbe did his usual get the ball and dribble into traffic thing. He’s a a winger anyways. The whole thing was a shambles. We probably could have done better by starting Bradley, Feilhaber, Pulisic and Dax in a narrower diamond and let the fullbacks (I would have gone Yedlin and Arriola) provide the attacking width with overlapping runs. I don’t ever want to see Nagbe play again. You see tons of African players like him, dribbles really nicely but rarely connects with anything. [/QUOTE]