Game Thread: USA vs Belgium - Altidore Cleared!
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...Dempsey...that would have had style points to boot.
Almost!!!
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Hate to say it, but we looked like a different team at the end, when we were forced to open it up. Of course, Belgium had bunkered down to some degree...
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Earle, since these are pros (11 of 'em from the Premiership alone for Belgium!), hope it's permitted to critique the US without getting whacked. And have to think Mr Bradley in the midfield played up to his lookalike, Casper the Friendly Ghost, throughout the tournament with a disappearing act for the ages. Otherwise, US exceeded every expectation and very much belonged in being there.
Proud of the team,out in the round of 16 for the second straight world cup.I consider it a success since we advanced from the group of death though.Hopefully Klinsmann sticks around.
Our players have nothing to be ashamed of - they played their guts out.
The better team prevailed if only by the shots-on-goal differential.
There's always next year!
The better team prevailed if only by the shots-on-goal differential.
There's always next year!
We don't have a rule forbidding criticism of players, per se - just harsh and improper criticism. Your post doesn't violate that, and FWIW, I agree...
Correction: There's always the next quadrennial...four years away in Mother Russia.
I have hope, faint though it may be, that North America's MLS teams can get into an "Americas Cup" - like the UEFA Champions League - competing against the best club sides in Central and South America, which inevitably would continue improving our native brand of futbol.
Proud of this team - they had a chance just before time expired to win this. Just wasn't their day to win it, but they left it on the field and looked decent enough in doing so.
I'll say this - the US team as a whole lacks the footwork and ball control that the better teams in the World Cup have - in every game I saw many bad passes, consistent bad timing, etc. We probably just don't have the foundation in place as a country to have premier players across the board on a team.
I'll say this - the US team as a whole lacks the footwork and ball control that the better teams in the World Cup have - in every game I saw many bad passes, consistent bad timing, etc. We probably just don't have the foundation in place as a country to have premier players across the board on a team.
Good point. Only a few of the players play at the highest international level, although I think Howard will be returning to MU after this...
LOsing Altidore was a killer, and I think Dempsey was undoubtedly hampered by getting a broken nose in the first game.
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