It’s going to be brutal watching Tata work out Berhalters tactics after 15 minutes, adjust to neutralize them, and play us out of the building for this entire cycle.
Berhalters entire plan for McKennie is just to chase the ball aimlessly and cycle it back to our mids who have no business on the field. Great. This entire set up has been reduced to Puli, please beat 3 guys on the counter and put it on the 6 and hope somebodies coming in wide open.
Feel bad for Dest getting absolutely abused by Corona for a large portion of that half. But maybe it will convince him he’s not good enough for the Dutch and he will succumb to getting tied to us.
Dest is a fish out of water on this team. He's used to playing with CB's that can make line breaking passes and DM's that are great at quick combination/1 touch soccer so that he can make fast overlapping runs and get into the attack. We have neither of those things on the field right now and he's had to spend the last 40 minutes of the 1st half running suicides.
i'm convinced that everyone associated with the columbus crew is cancer for us soccer. gregg, trapp, zardes, even steffen hasn't really progressed meaningfully. i'm sure there's more. #killthecrew
1) Fuck off 2) Zardes was an issue for the MNT before he arrived in Columbus. Gregg turning him into a decent MLS ST has somehow made him think he should be an auto starter for the MNT though. 3) Kinda ties into #2 but get rid of Gregg and Trapp/Zardes go with him. 4) Steffen made a move this summer to Europe and has started every match for a Bundesliga club. What were you looking for from him?
Trapp and Zardes are both going to be starting world cup qualifier games and I'm going to commit war crimes.
i'd hate on morris but he's been really good for seattle all summer as their form has picked up so maybe he'll be okay here
That's two games in a row against Mexico where they go hands to the face/throat to no card whatsoever
"use your speed Jordan, do your best Michael Bradley impression and move backwards as fast as you can"