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16 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

Deuce calling out the sparse crowd... There's no energy in the stadium at all.

Granted it's just now 5pm there at the end of halftime, but still... Weak sauce.

American sports fans would MUCH rather stay at home/ go to a bar/ go to Vegas to watch Day 1 of the NCAA Tournament than go to fucking Inglewood to watch the USMNT play fucking PANAMA!🇵🇦 

Mexicans will stroll in and fill the place up for game 2, but…

I once got pulled over for being white in Inglewood, I don’t think that I would go there for a semifinal vs Panama.

ACTUAL EXPLANATION September 1998:

Nappy B: “I was wondering… why was I pulled over?”

LAPD: “Have you noticed that you’re the only white people around here?”

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I'm wondering why they can't have 1 game at SoFi and the other at the Rose Bowl. I'd assume they'd make even more money, and can start one game right after the other - extra time or not. 

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1 minute ago, Napoleon said:

I am not holding out hope that the USMNT makes it to the Quarterfinals.

Just make it out of the group and everything after that is gravy.

All depends on the draw of course but out of the group would be a W.

 

BTW Chile's continuing fall is amazing with another loss tonight. All the "minor" CONMEBOL teams are clowning them. 

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I know I lean optimistic, but I actually saw a lot to like in this game. The one caveat, and the most important, is finishing. Simply put, their striker finished his chance and ours didn't and that was the difference.

I thought our press was good and led to some great possession.  Our play down the wings was great with Pulisic and Weah and led to some great cutbacks that should've been easy goals from Sargent and Agyemang. Agyemang should've finished his 1v1. Sargent did finish off one chance that got called for offside.  I really do feel that if we could just find a consistent finisher, then the sky is the limit for this team, because the buildup play was very good for most of the game.

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11 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

All depends on the draw of course but out of the group would be a W.

BTW Chile's continuing fall is amazing with another loss tonight. All the "minor" CONMEBOL teams are clowning them. 

Chile is NOT a traditional CONMEBOL power. They won their only two Copa Americas ever in 2015 & 2016.

The 2010s were the greatest decade in Chile’s history. They started with Bielsa instilling the run until you drop mentality and then he was replaced and their Golden Generation led them to World Cups & two Copa America shootout titles over Argentina, but they have never been much of a soccer power. 

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37 minutes ago, TheBryMan81 said:

Also on Pacific time. Game started around 4pm on a Thursday in LA. Most people still working or caught in traffic. Terrible scheduling.

Yea they definitely catered to the Mexican team fans. The Canada team bus was stuck in nasty traffic leaving the Intercontinental as I was leaving the office. 

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Took my kindergarten son to a pub to watch tonight. He told me he doesn’t even want someone to say a word that begins with the letter P tomorrow because he’s so mad at Panama. Sad but proud of him at the same time. 
 

This was a weird game. No way we should have lost this, but I do think this game shows how much we miss Dest and Jedi if we’re going to have Adams in the middle against a bunkering team. If teams are going to bunker, Adams’s value goes way down. I would have like to see Gio in the middle for 20 minutes. He’s way more likely to break something open. 
 

 

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53 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Chile is NOT a traditional CONMEBOL power. They won their only two Copa Americas ever in 2015 & 2016.

The 2010s were the greatest decade in Chile’s history. They started with Bielsa instilling the run until you drop mentality and then he was replaced and their Golden Generation led them to World Cups & two Copa America shootout titles over Argentina, but they have never been much of a soccer power. 

Who is the 4th best conmebol team historically?

Posted
1 hour ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

We should have more than 5 shots in a game - Puli, Weah, McKennie, Musah, etc 

We had 12.

I missed most of the game, but I am shocked to not see Gio get any time. The guy is kind of what you need in a game like this. That he didn't play was kind of baffling, IMHO.

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52 minutes ago, LurkingHorn said:

This was a weird game. No way we should have lost this, but I do think this game shows how much we miss Dest and Jedi if we’re going to have Adams in the middle against a bunkering team. If teams are going to bunker, Adams’s value goes way down. I would have like to see Gio in the middle for 20 minutes. He’s way more likely to break something open. 


You didn’t like crosses into whatever?

But it’s what these kids know.

 

20 minutes ago, alincoln said:

Who is the 4th best conmebol team historically?

Peru and/or Paraguay

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12 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

We had 12.

I missed most of the game, but I am shocked to not see Gio get any time. The guy is kind of what you need in a game like this. That he didn't play was kind of baffling, IMHO.

We needed Jack Mcglynn

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Don't get me wrong guys - this loss sucked, but a few things to hopefully get you all off the ledge:

1. This isn't our full squad. We were down a bunch of first teamers. Let's be fair on this.

2. We have a long way to go before the World Cup. This team is only now learning Poch's scheme

3. We are still less than a year of having Beerholder's stink on this team. Let's give this all some time.

 

Yeah, this sucks. but I have faith we'll figure shit out.

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48 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Don't get me wrong guys - this loss sucked, but a few things to hopefully get you all off the ledge:

1. This isn't our full squad. We were down a bunch of first teamers. Let's be fair on this.

2. We have a long way to go before the World Cup. This team is only now learning Poch's scheme

3. We are still less than a year of having Beerholder's stink on this team. Let's give this all some time.

 

Yeah, this sucks. but I have faith we'll figure shit out.

lol this is hilarious. Yea it’s still the last guys fault 

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Posted
8 hours ago, The Dog said:

Yeah this team is shit. 

Pussies, all of them.

This. Just this. Happy to discuss, but I know the soccer dads on here will neg bomb me to Bolivia (did they win?)

Fucking Panama? It is time we need to ask ourselves some real questions about how we approach the sport.

Posted
2 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Maybe we should have hired Panama’s coach.

Who were we missing from the A team other than Jedi? Pepi, maybe? Don’t say fucking Balogun. 

Pepi and Balogun are our best strikers when healthy, both were out. Dest also hasn't played in over a year. Having him would have been very useful in breaking down the bunker. Johnny would have also been a nice option to have as well.

It's really tough to say we didn't dominate the game when you look at this:

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I'm not going to get on the negative train quite yet, but if we see this team get punched in the mouth against Canada on Sunday, the alarm bells will be going off for me. 

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, LurkingHorn said:

BTW, WTF is Ream doing here? 

Mark a man, dude! Maybe the man with the ball? Made zero effort to close out that shot. 

It's called ball watching. End of a game you gotta keep your mind right - he had a brain fart.

 

And honestly, you gotta wonder if his move back to the MLS combined with his age isn't affecting his play. And frankly, he isn't going to be there next year - he's old. He had his run in 2022, he won't be on the USMNT except as the last man on the bench in 2026.

Let's also not let Scally off the hook here, he has to get back after the pass is off at 0:04 and he has to get back quick and into position. He tracks in way too slow and too narrow helping leave Waterman open.

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