USMNT 2024

[HornOnTheBayou 8,904]

Yep, I got an email yesterday from US Soccer saying "Tickets are still available!"

[Mittens 8,254]

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

[Mittens 8,254]

The next negative I see about Pochettino will be the first.

 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

57 minutes ago, Mittens said:

Never want to complain about getting national games in your own town, but this was terrible scheduling by USMNT.  That stadium is going to look brutal on tv tomorrow.

I don' think it will be too bad.

[Mittens 8,254]

That's better than I thought, but that's also tickets sold.  Be interesting to see what butts in seats looks like.

[Hagbard Celine 10,848]

18 hours ago, Derka said:

we’ve had plenty of reasons to have longer, more strenuous training sessions over the past 14 years. we missed out on a world cup for christ’s sake. we got punked by a bunch of mid tier concacaf teams. the idea that a two hour training session is something we’ve never done before is wild.

not wild at all

fantastic to see

[Napoleon 8,660]

2 hours ago, Mittens said:

Never want to complain about getting national games in your own town, but this was terrible scheduling by USMNT.  That stadium is going to look brutal on tv tomorrow.

Doubt it. The kickoff is well after the final whistle in Dallas.

In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of sports fans in Central Texas with zero affiliation to the University of Texas.

It may not be a sellout, but my friend with 4 season tickets went to Tulane and then Colorado before going to SMU for law school.

Bigger issue will be ACL.

Still think that the stadium will be over half full. 

A weekend in October is always going to go up against college football & the NFL. They will be fine.

 

[Hagbard Celine 10,848]

3 hours ago, Mittens said:

Never want to complain about getting national games in your own town, but this was terrible scheduling by USMNT.  That stadium is going to look brutal on tv tomorrow.

zero-situational-awareness-scheduling has been a federation staple since the '89 renaissance

[Ted Lange 16,082]

 

[Mittens 8,254]

 

[kingkoopa6 8,344]

USA USA USA 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

7 hours ago, Mittens said:

 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

No Weston or Tillman is surprising 

[Chico_SA 521]

Only streaming? 

 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

TNT 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

 

[Braff Zacklin 13,552]

Busio?

[Ted Lange 16,082]

I think MP is gonna give guys a start and a sub role.   Expect Weston and Tillman to get late minutes and start vs Mexico.  

[kingkoopa6 8,344]

Ref a baddie 

[RamjetFDO 10,575]

So nice to see a coach dressed on the sidelines that *DOESN'T* look like he just came in from mowing the yard.

[Ted Lange 16,082]

She’s letting them play. 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

Seems like Aaronson is playing centrally and Musah as a winger going forward 

[Braff Zacklin 13,552]

No reason to stop play there. I don't care how nice her ass is, she's stupid af for blowing the whistle.

[Captain Ron 12,863]

We look more dynamic tonight than we did under Gregg in his whole tenure. 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

And with a B side in the front 6 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

Anyone messaged Vic about the sideline refs?

[Braff Zacklin 13,552]

Jesus wept, Sargent.

[Ted Lange 16,082]

Like the effort so far but outside Pulisic there are no goal threats in this XI

[Derka 6,136]

17 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Like the effort so far but outside Pulisic there are no goal threats in this XI

sargent needs to become that guy.

[Captain Ron 12,863]

Well ok then. 

[RamjetFDO 10,575]

Get big Matty!

[Captain Ron 12,863]

1 minute ago, RamjetFDO said:

Get big Matty!

Looked really good there. 

[Derka 6,136]

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Edited October 13 by Derka

[Ted Lange 16,082]

I miss this man

 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

Tessman looks like a giant out there.   

[Captain Ron 12,863]

No coke, pepsi!

[RamjetFDO 10,575]

No coke, pepsi!

[Ted Lange 16,082]

Solid first outing.  Feels good to have confidence that we are headed in the right direction for the first time since what, 2014?

[Ted Lange 16,082]

What a great photo 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

GGG? 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

I’ve seen more tonight that I saw in the entire tenure of Gregg. Adjustments, changes, dynamic play. I know we don’t have a “golden generation” but damn this team has talent that should have done far more than we ever did under that shit head. CHRIST they just showed Pepi’s goal- after the free kick, 3 touches and the shot. You never would have seen that under Gregg. 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

3 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

GGG? 

Looks like he’s taking a note - “Musah could score. Should have used that more”

[Ted Lange 16,082]

We just aren’t clinical.   The one thing I’ve always thought we could do is play a mid block press and fast break.   We had several this match.  I’m looking forward to a few windows from now when we are more healthy and the players better have a grasp on what MP wants them to do.  

[Ted Lange 16,082]

 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

21 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

We just aren’t clinical.   The one thing I’ve always thought we could do is play a mid block press and fast break.   We had several this match.  I’m looking forward to a few windows from now when we are more healthy and the players better have a grasp on what MP wants them to do.  

I would say we aren't clinical yet. This is our first match under a real coach. But damn watching everything else you said - it was like these guys got to play with the 20 lbs weights Gregg shackled on them finally thrown away. Watching this team play with a confidence and flow, it was beyond refreshing.

You see a guy like Sargent having his run. You see Balogun having his run. It's only a matter of time for us to get clinical with this team.

Until then, we build and we enjoy the process.

[Captain Ron 12,863]

 

Spoiler

 

[Captain Ron 12,863]

[Ted Lange 16,082]

😂

 

[Ted Lange 16,082]

Ugh

 

[Ted Lange 16,082]