Generic soccer thread
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Just done watching US vs Germany. It was a very competitive game, sometimes. We lost, but certainly had some opportunities to score.
I was literally just about to cuss out Pulisic, wondering the last year he beat somebody off the dribble. And then BAM! He did just that. Excellent effort.
I dunno what the deal is with TV broadcasts these days. They never, ever show the starting lineups. Why???
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@rockchalkjayhawk i think Pulisic creates off the dribble well and has dusted many a CONCACAF defender. We can agree to disagree there. I was irritated Pulisic took a dive as well.
He remains my favorite player on USMNT atm. Love his composure. Adams is 2nd and 3rd is possibly Reyna if he can get out of Berhalters mental prison. Felt his play at midfield was a revelation before he got hurt and i dont understand why Berhalter didnt play him there with Adams out.
Our CBs just werent good enough. Old man Ream is too slow and Chris Richards too green.
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Ooh, that got me thinking @approxinfinity , who’s my favorite player. Hmmm.
I like Pulisic, too. Just seems like with all his injuries he’s lost some speed and burst. He’s in the running, if not my fav.
I really like Jedi. Musah is growing on me as well. Adams too, when he’s fit.
Jedi’s the winner!
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Holy crap. Sergino Dest just lost his mind on the pitch against Trinidad. Omg.
Pissed over a ball he tried to keep in bounds (looked out), he punted the ball 100 yards. Straight yellow. Then just starts mouthing off in epic proportion to the ref. His teammates were grabbing him, telling him to shut up. Multiple times. He would not. Unbelievable , but red carded for being a douche.
Tim Ream was just berating him on the field. Dest just pushing him away. Shocking behavior for a pro.
And seconds later TriTob scored.
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@rockchalkjayhawk yeah. Dest has seemed to be melting down mentally since the Mexico game where he got pitched. I think maybe the reality that his professional trajectory is on the downhill is sinking in and he isnt taking it well?
Also, it doesnt surprise me that it happened under Berhalter. He can posture for the media, but he appears to not have enough locker room influence to manage personalities. Bring back Callaghan!
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I’m with you @approxinfinity on GGG. He needed to go. My guess is that he won’t make it to the next World Cup.
After the Dest meltdown, I happened upon an older video interview with Dest. It really sounded like his mental health was not stable. Not crazy, but not handling the pressure of being a player well.
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@rockchalkjayhawk watching ac milan va dortmund for some pulisic on reyna violence
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ooh, was about to turn that on. Is Puli playing? thought he was hurt?
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Yep! Had a nice shot on goal
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Man city bringing in doku and alvarez down 2-0 to leicester city. “We are too cool for you, guy” gloves coming off now
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Man City second half was brilliant.
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I had to get some sheet done today, so only watched the first half of Milan. Did Reyna get any second half of run?
Need to catch up on the champions league!
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I didnt really watch the second half @rockchalkjayhawk . He was invisible in the first, for sure.
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Matt Turner and his sloppy feet…
https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/matt-turner-usmnt-goalkeeper-premier-league/blt8218437bf9df36c1
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As if I wasn’t tortured enough with sports today…
I decided to watch the US vs Jamaica nations league game after the KU game. First half at least.
Scaly, who I think is a giant POS, craps the bed 32 seconds into the game and decides not to cover his man near the net. Goal.
Multiple shots on goal in the box are comically missed in the first half. I can’t take any more poor play today! I’m going to bed!
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Whew, the US tied it up with seconds to go in extra time. Wow.
Then Haji Wright took over, scored two nice goals in the two 15 min. OT periods.
US was mostly dominant all game, but as usual sloppy in front of the net.
Maybe I was KU cranky last night, but they looked better the more I watched.
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The Brooks Jr. High Warriors are now 1-0 on the girls side and 0-1 on the boys side. The girls listened to their coach and won and the boys didn’t listen and lost! The coach is the same person…me!
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I always enjoy rocking Mexico’s world.
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@wissox I was told the boys got out coached
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@kjayhawks Haha, yes, I actually told the fullback it would be a good strategy to raise his hands up at a ball whilst in the penalty area because we needed to test our goalie in a PK situation.
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Wow! If you haven’t, watch the first 14 minutes of Man City vs Real.
Wow!
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First day of head coaching my 5 year old in soccer. It was everything i hoped it would be. Have another guy coaching with me whose son is also in travel soccer with my older boy. 2 solid coaches for 7 kids is a great ratio!
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OMG, the color announcer for the Dortmund-PSG game is freaking awesome!
So funny. I can’t even keep track of his one liners!
After an amazing goal: 1.21 gigawatts!
About the awesomeness of the game: This game is hotter than the hinges on hell’s gate!
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@rockchalkjayhawk I watched the shortened version on youtube. That was great!
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@wissox said in Generic soccer thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk I watched the shortened version on youtube. That was great!
Cracked me up. and great game!
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I was very impressed with the new USWNT coach. She did a pregame chat the other day. Great intelligence, composure, demeanor and personality. She only has a few games or so to get her system in place before the Olympics. I’m hoping her first game was telling of future success.
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If you’d like to be less disgusted and way less angry, do not under any circumstance watch the US vs Colombia soccer game.
Demoralizing. Colombia looked dangerous, and the US looked incompetent.
I’m all for firing GGG after this result (5-1).
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@rockchalkjayhawk i didnt watch yet, and it’s not a matter of if but when for me, regarding firing GGG. Shouldn’t have ever been brought back.
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Watched up til 4-1 , had to pause. Our backline is awful and always has been under GGG. Theres no other way to put it. When your backline is puting balls to no one back into play in the danger zone om the first 2 Columbia goals, and your coach is explaining it away as just a couple mistakes, he is missing the point. These are extremely bad decisions, worse than fumbles at the 1 yard line. Entirely self inflicted.
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Man, not even sure I want to revisit yesterday by writing something!
But agreed, so many self inflicted wounds. Like they’d never played the game before. Dribble into the corner alone, get trapped, turn it over, rinse, repeat. The back line was comically bad. I was just praising Jedi and seconds later he did that slide turnover goal thing.
Colombia had a great game plan, and GGG could not adjust. Playing a high back line with the slow footed Ream left everybody on an island trying to recover. We were just overwhelmed.
Did Weston actually play? Didn’t even see him touch the ball, or defend. I dunno how we could continually make so many bad passes straight to our opponent.
Grrrrr! Fire GGG! (and I continue to be anti Reyna)
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Goal.com in defense of GGG.
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@rockchalkjayhawk did they take it down?
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@approxinfinity said in Generic soccer thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk did they take it down?
I’m still seeing an article when I click it.
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Huh! Weird, i turned off my vpn which places me in Canada and the article shows up. Thx
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Yea, Goal website is very aggressive if you have any ad blockers, etc. i also think it sorts content by country you’re in as well.
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Either way it says the result was not GGG’s fault! Ha.
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@rockchalkjayhawk said in Generic soccer thread:
Either way it says the result was not GGG’s fault! Ha.
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Split feelings about this US brazil matchup .
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Because i want berhalter fired early in the cycle
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Backline embarassed on first goal.
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Alright! 1-1 at the half, backline woke up. Nice job by Turner shutting down Rodrygo in a 1:1
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Assistant VAR ref from Mexico tried to get a legal tackle by US promoted from a yellow to red and they took away the yellow after reviewing lolol
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Ha, that reversal was comical @approxinfinity !
I still don’t understand how they continue to let players swarm the ref. Thought they made a rule.
Otherwise what a game! But I’m with you about GGG. The game plan, for once, was pretty good. Quite the opposite of last game. I guess that puts him back in good standing. The Copa result may be make or break.
We actually should have won. More than a couple close ones missed.
The good: just about everything! An oddly patient approach out of the back made me nervous as hell, but mostly worked. Wow, that blistering shot from Musah early on!!! Wow. Nearly broke the crossbar. Puli’s free kick goal must have been drawn up. Worked brilliantly. Gio actually worked hard today. He was consistently helping Scally handle Vini. Seemed to be there when needed. (I can’t believe I just wrote that). The blob 10-man defense was very effective in cutting down space to create.
The so-so: I crap my pants every time Matt Turner decides to handle the ball and distribute with his feet. He makes at least one bad decision per game doing that. Looks clumsy. I was hoping to see a backup get a chance today. But OK. He played well. It’s really too bad that Aaronsen has zero offensive skill. He had a wide open field and dribbled right into a Brazilian defender. Shook my head.
Nice game! See what a little effort can do?
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https://x.com/RedditCFB/status/1801068482131603847
“USMNT follows up a 5-1 loss to Colombia with an impressive draw against Brazil. Gregg Berhalter is a Kirk Ferentz-level savant at doing just enough to save his job, but not enough to get poached.”
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@BShark said in Generic soccer thread:
https://x.com/RedditCFB/status/1801068482131603847
“USMNT follows up a 5-1 loss to Colombia with an impressive draw against Brazil. Gregg Berhalter is a Kirk Ferentz-level savant at doing just enough to save his job, but not enough to get poached.”
Nicely put!
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I always love looking at the different player ratings after the games. This one has me absolutely baffled. ESPN. Did they watch the same game? I even reluctantly admit Scally was better than a 3!
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40337897/pulisic-rates-6-10-brazil-draw-gets-usmnt-back-track
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Espn is hopeless.
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11 - Matt Turner’s 11 saves vs. Brazil are the most by a #USMNT goalkeeper since Tim Howard made 15 saves vs. Belgium in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Stopper.
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Did you say he goes to 11?
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Euro 24 started yesterday. Nice opening win for the boys but it’s Scotland so you can’t take too much from it.
