bigblue wrote:Levetzzi injured after tumbling over the billboards. All about the $$$ for FIFA, even over player safety.
On the US, our keeper is Brad Guzan, the team is build around an Asron Villa reject, and we sub on an average 17 year old kid from the bundesliga bench when looking for a goal. Says it all really. We'll be lucky to not get completely dicked
Hah! Guzan had a pretty good tournament as far as I could see. It's also not entirely his fault the Villa defence was a utter shambles all season. Was excited to see Pulisic come on, and in the little we saw you could see that he has genuine skill and potential to be a star. But we couldn't string together two passes, let alone even one. I grow increasingly tired of seeing players with such poor touch and pass accuracy. It really was embarrassing to watch.
Pulisic exhibited very good movement, and I could see the team trying to find him on the left flank when he came on, but it was completely worthless because we couldn't keep the ball for any period of time. I don't know why Klinsmann didn't start him. We were going to lose anyway, and no one would have been bothered. Would it really have hurt his development to play decent minutes? Most of the rest of the team looks like they don't belong on the pitch with Argentina, other than Guzan, Pulisic, Yedlin (who did pretty well) and Bradley who had an okay game.
Dempsey was also invisible, but it was for the same reasons (much of the team stinks), and he's 33 years old, and pretty much carried us to the Semis, although we did see some other good performers (Wood) and the defence was well organised for a change. No Wood nor Jones did not help at all either, and could have made it a better game. Again, I want to see more hip-hop in our football. If we can get that injected into the culture of the game here we will see a change that is more representative of what we could offer.