**** man, reactive implies actually responding to a situationaggie kid said:
If there's one adjective I can use, it's "reactive."
Jurgen got cute, and then had to react when it backfired.
Pulisic and Wood were the only ones who were playing proactively. Everyone else on their heels for much of the game.
Referee didn't do great, but it got away from him, and he could only give (ultimately ignored and ineffective) cautions.
No I mean, I agreed with you, i was just putting more hate on Jurgen really.aggie kid said:
Fair enough, it's not the best word. I just meant that, to be successful as a player-coach-referee, putting yourself in a position where you have to react means you've lost control. You can get it back, but it's really hard, and doubly so when you're down because of your early decisions.
aggie kid said:
I don't know that we did miss Dempsey. Who do you take out? Wood, Pulisic, and Altidore were probably the best three USMNT players tonight.
I'm gonna say this. As someone that works in cardiology. I'd give Dempsey about a 10% chance of ever playing professional soccer again. The fact that he has arrhythmia that ended his season means it is something pretty damn serious. Nearly everyone has some irregular beats that mean nothing or even an odd rhythm, but it takes something serious for us to shut someone down. In my head, I hope its something like atrial fibrillation and they are seeing how he reacts with meds and exercise. Could have also developed a form of cardiomyopathy. I'd love the chance to get him in the office and run a stress test to take a lookQuote:
We really missed Dempsey today
wangus12 said:I'm gonna say this. As someone that works in cardiology. I'd give Dempsey about a 10% chance of ever playing professional soccer again. The fact that he has arrhythmia that ended his season means it is something pretty damn serious. Nearly everyone has some irregular beats that mean nothing or even an odd rhythm, but it takes something serious for us to shut someone down. In my head, I hope its something like atrial fibrillation and they are seeing how he reacts with meds and exercise. Could have also developed a form of cardiomyopathy. I'd love the chance to get him in the office and run a stress test to take a lookQuote:
We really missed Dempsey today
Not only could we not possess, but we were beyond extremely porous on defense too. We just seemed to have no idea who was marking who in the midfield, or picking up their forwards when they dropped back.ScottishFire said:
I blame this game on the 3-5-2 gimmick.
Play the freaking 4-4-2 that we've owned and flourished under for years. We couldn't possess our own cleats the first twenty minutes and our back line was under constant duress.
I'm one of the few people left in America who likes Klinsmann, but I put this game on his back for getting cute with formations. Foolish
Ryno01 said:
After sleeping on it. Michael Bradley sucks.
yea, I said/thought the exact same thing as it happened. I appreciated the hustle behind it, but that was a dumb foul in a dangerous spot.Pahdz said:
Sorry if it's been discussed, but WTF was Josh doing fouling a guy 35 yards from goal, back to goal and retreating with no help, that led to the free kick that ultimately gave them the winning corner? That was freaking boneheaded
"The key in that system is that your central midfielders need to get into these one-against-one battles," Klinsmann said in his postgame news conference. "That's something that was not happening the first 25-30 minutes. Not Michael Bradley nor Jermaine got into these battles and their players could roam and that really puts difficulties, so that gave them their chances. So we changed it then back because we train different systems, we have that always available.titanmaster_race said:
JK once again back to publicly throwing his players under the bus and not taking responsibility for his ****ty formations and tactics.
jeffk said:
Not to mention HE IS THE ONE WHO MADE THE CHANGE IN OUR MIDFIELD FORMATION AND PERSONNEL.
We had been playing pretty decently without Jones and in a four-back system, but instead of rolling with what we'd been working on, he decided to scrapheap it and roll an out of form 50 year old midfielder in at CM in arguably the most important game of the Hex.
It looked good in practice though, he said.
