Up 1-0 bro. Go USA!!!!! Great start 
USMNT - Turning Point?
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Where are the fans???? Gees, The Outlaws are pissed off and so are the rest of us who take winning very serious. Go America!!!
2-0!!! All is well and the development is finally working now
Zardes is not an issue but Brooks is thus far in the game.
oh canada
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Very disappointing from Canada - coach starts off with defensive lineup, players come out flat and give up defensible goals. Bummer.
I want to see the US get a goal from the run of play, not a set piece, and connect a few passes. Canada with a lot more possession but US on the counters and getting set pieces off of them. Lletget the star of the first half. McKennie doesn't look like he belongs.
I want to see the US get a goal from the run of play, not a set piece, and connect a few passes. Canada with a lot more possession but US on the counters and getting set pieces off of them. Lletget the star of the first half. McKennie doesn't look like he belongs.
younothat
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Well nice to see the young players on the MNT but the 0-0 draw vs wales was kind of underwhelming after what 10 months?
First #USMNT game in almost a year and we just played 75 minutes of it with 0 strikers despite having 4 on the bench and instead played a 28-year-old slightly above average MLS player We’re back baby
First #USMNT game in almost a year and we just played 75 minutes of it with 0 strikers despite having 4 on the bench and instead played a 28-year-old slightly above average MLS player We’re back baby
notintheface
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Dest is the real deal. The more experience McKennie can get with Juventus the better. Adams looks good but needs to move to a better club. Gio Reyna could be great and needs to get more time at Dortmund. The very first hex game Musah needs to start for his cap to keep him away from Gareth Southgate. Weah needs to get on a better club. I could see Weah playing side by side with Sargent.
I'd run a 4-4-2 extra wide with this squad. Dest Brooks Ream Robinson / Reyna McKennie Pulisic Adams / Sargent Weah. You have solid buildup play and Pulisic has the skill and pace to run a super-wide game, and join Sargent and Weah in the box. Dest and Robinson can both whip the ball in low-- you won't win aerial battles with this team against guys like Araujo. It's exciting for sure, these kids are only going to get better and most of them are in the environment to improve their skills quickly.
I'd run a 4-4-2 extra wide with this squad. Dest Brooks Ream Robinson / Reyna McKennie Pulisic Adams / Sargent Weah. You have solid buildup play and Pulisic has the skill and pace to run a super-wide game, and join Sargent and Weah in the box. Dest and Robinson can both whip the ball in low-- you won't win aerial battles with this team against guys like Araujo. It's exciting for sure, these kids are only going to get better and most of them are in the environment to improve their skills quickly.
I also thought they looked like a team that wanted to prove something but just weren’t in sync with one another. I agree 100% with you about Musah, he was arguably the best player in the files today.
Maybe we can talk who the best true 9 for this group would be over that dinner?
SoccerFan4Life
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The good:
- we were the attacking team for once.
- great technical skills from Dest,McKennie, others.
- handled the ball well in tight spaces
- Dest was very impressive.
The bad:
- couldn’t get too many shots on goal
- whales looked very dangerous on the counterattack
- we looked a bit slow
- we don’t have a Striker to compliment our midfield.
They need to find a striker and stick with one or two options to get some experience.
- we were the attacking team for once.
- great technical skills from Dest,McKennie, others.
- handled the ball well in tight spaces
- Dest was very impressive.
The bad:
- couldn’t get too many shots on goal
- whales looked very dangerous on the counterattack
- we looked a bit slow
- we don’t have a Striker to compliment our midfield.
They need to find a striker and stick with one or two options to get some experience.
One NOT named Altidore or Zardes!!!!
notintheface
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Sargent and Weah can be those guys. They need a little bit of time and to be on teams where they will get service. Half the reason why Haland is doing so well is because he has Sancho and Brandt and Hazard and Reyna in support. Put Sargent and Weah into environments where they'll get looks at goal and they will only get better.
Was Sargent not allowed to travel out of Germany? Reyna obviously did or is Sargent injured? I agree he might be that pure striker we were missing
Sargent is a good call. I think Morris could also play that role and eventually Conrad.
Sargent was covid travel restrictioned by his club
Werder Bremen will not release Sargent for USMNT duty - SBI Soccer
Josh Sargent was set to join Gregg Berhalter's U.S. Men's National Team squad for November friendlies, but now looks ready to stay with Werder Bremen.
sbisoccer.com
The USMNT is a work in progress, lots of work ahead. Getting a consistent team with a consistency set of players getting accustomed to each other is going to be key going forward.
The haphazard methods in the past where players are thrown together for a few month or weeks, leave, change, etc is like a circle jerk that hasn't seen results so let's hope the coaching staff implements a style of play and system with players that aren't coming and going every competition.
Werder Bremen had a team mandate of no traveling and wanting players to quarantine. They therefore did not release him.
Addendum:
Oops, just saw the previous reply.
notintheface
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I should also add -- if Taylor Twellman or whoever is saying "the US needs a pure-bred number 9 striker kind of guy" then they aren't really paying attention to the global game. The past few years everything is about pace and winning tackles that cause immediate transition into a counterattack. You look at how Mou has gotten Kane to switch from a dude who just kinds of hangs out at the top of the box hoping for service, into an assist machine on the counterattack. You look at how my boy Jack Grealish just carves through defenses at a full run. You look at basically every Bundesliga game these days. A "pure number 9" is more expected to be doing long run counters all game long. This is where Sargent and Weah can shine. Pulisic has pace, Reyna has pace, Sargent and Weah need to learn how to work with that pace and you'll see the US start playing ball like Wolves or Villa or similar.
SoccerFan4Life
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I have followed Sargent over the past year. He is great at creating chances for others but he doesn’t score. I think he’s had 1 goal this season and not that many last season. He is young so that’s the upside but still plenty of work in progress for him. Can you image if we had Clint Dempsey at his prime with this team? We need a new Dempsey and in my opinion we don’t have anyone yet to measure up to his caliber.
The 9 isn’t just a goal scoring machine (Firminio is a great example). They need to be able to hold, press, distribute and score. It’s more about the movement and decision making. Kane’s evolution is another prime example.