***USMNT Thread***

announce european based november friendlies ffs

 

chris richards starting vs hertha at 12 est on espn+

 

chris richards assist!!!

edit: should’ve been assist, some scrub named müller was a hair offside

 

Awful cross considering Müller was offside.

/s

 

win win

richards delivers a peach of a cross resulting in a goal

but goal doesn’t count and bayern didn’t take the lead through no fault of chris

 

doh bayern scores again this time legit

but another peach of a cross from chris that was a catalyst for that goal

 

chris richards the crossing wizard

 

now he got his assist atta boy!!!

 

Try to steal that one VAR

 

looks like his night done after cramping up in the 60th

nervy at times, but flashed some good play as well. hopefully they keep him as backup to pavard and don’t bring someone else in like sarr

overall, definitely liked what i saw

 

wow bayern really shouldn’t have taken off the mvp of the match and their best player, chris richards

hertha just equalized. you hate to see it

 

great cross

that touch and shot by lewa was filth though

 

sergiño and konrad on the bench for barça

 

wes on the bench for juve

game is likely to end in a forfeit as napoli had a couple players test positive for covid and juve said they’re not open to rescheduling nor is the serie a

napoli’s local government wouldn’t let the team travel as they’re seeing a spike of cases in their region (or something like that).

that’s serie a for you

 

dest checking in

 

segiño coming on for alba last 15 minutes after alba pulled up short with a muscle problem

 

didnt have a ton to do in his 20 minutes

had some nice touches and interplay with pedri, set up messi with a shot on goal, got back well on a counter off a corner

 

bigsoccer

"I noted much earlier in this thread that it's hard to read too much into Richards getting a single appearance for Bayern after they had already wrapped up the league title, since a number of players have managed that feat without ever going on to become even top flight Bundesliga starters.

I figured I should update that now focusing instead on players who have started for Bayern in the Bundesliga before they wrapped up the title -- i.e., in a meaningful game.

Per football-lineups.com, here's every defender* who has started a meaningful Bundesliga match for Bayern in the past 10 seasons. I've also noted in parentheses the highest level those players regularly started at in their careers:

Van Buyten (Bayern regular starter)
Lahm (Bayern regular starter)
Demichelis (regular starter at Bayern & Man City)
Breno (topped out at Brazilian league)
Badstuber (Bayern regular starter)
Contento (Bordeaux regular starter)
Pranjic (Bayern starter for one season)
Braafheid (topped out at Eredivisie but played in a WC final)
Alaba (Bayern regular starter)
Tymoshchuk (Bayern starter for one season)
Luiz Gustavo (Wolfsburg & Hoffenheim starter)
Rafinha (Bayern regular starter)
Boateng (Bayern regular starter)
Dante (Bayern regular starter)
Weiser (Hertha Berlin starter)
Javi Martinez (Bayern regular starter)
Benatia (Udinese & Roma starter)
Bernat (Bayern starter for one season)
Kimmich (Bayern regular starter)
Tasci (Stuttgart starter)
Hummels (Bayern regular starter)
Sule (Bayern regular starter)
Pavard (current Bayern starter)
Davies (current Bayern starter)
Hernandez (too soon to tell)

*not counting Bayern midfield regulars playing out of position in the backline briefly

So out of 25 defenders who have started for Bayern in a meaningful Bundesliga game in the past decade, 17 or 18 became Bayern starters (which I'm defining as players who started at least 20 league games in a season for Bayern). And all but 1 or 2 of them ended up starting in a top 4 league or a club of that quality.

In other words, they don't tend to give these starts to longshot prospects."

 

Got to be a straight up DOLT not to have this goal magnet #1 on your USMNT striker depth chart.

 

At work. Randomly start laughing. Assistant asks what’s up? “Gyasinho, you wouldn’t understand.”

 

Zardes continues to out-Zardes himself.

 

Would never happen to King Atiba

 

Could have an 11th US player in the CL

 

This shuts the door on the new one time switch rule right?

 

awesome call to maintain the intl break, FIFA

 

Not going to argue that criticism, but how do we know that’s why McKennie is positive, considering the US didn’t play any games?

 

Now show us your Leno kit

 

Wow. That’s quite a bit more than I figured. Huge for MLS and US Soccer. Badly needed someone to show that investing in the academy and playing your kids can be profitable.

Do Mark McKenzie next

 

It’s the highest transfer fee for a homegrown player

 

Getting a head start on working with the next national team coach. A smart move, this.

 

Alphonso Davies was more? Was he not homegrown?

 

Typical American. Nothing matters outside their borders.

 

This



Compared to this



Makes me feel so good

 

kinda annoyed at the congestion of games in that 9:30 and 10 est time slot, but alas

 

Theres like 40+ on that list so I hope so.