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🚨 Sources tell me Ricardo Pepi's camp are in agreement on personal terms with Wolfsburg 🇩🇪 & are looking to close a deal with #DTID 🇺🇲 #USMNT

Haven't been able to reach his agent to confirm yet

— Chris Smith (@CJSmith91) October 12, 2021

oh no said:

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🚨 Sources tell me Ricardo Pepi's camp are in agreement on personal terms with Wolfsburg 🇩🇪 & are looking to close a deal with #DTID 🇺🇲 #USMNT

Haven't been able to reach his agent to confirm yet

— Chris Smith (@CJSmith91) October 12, 2021

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I like that move for him.

Current status of things going into Matchday 6 of the Octagon:

Team Points +/-
1. Mexico 11 +5
2. USA 8 +4
3. Panama 8 +3
4. Canada 7 +3
5. Costa Rica 6 0
6. El Salvador 5 -3
7. Honduras 3 -6
8. Jamaica 2 -6


Matchday 6:

USA v. Costa Rica (6pm Columbus, Ohio---ESPN 2)
Canada v. Panama (6:30pm Toronto, Ontario---Paramount+)
Honduras v. Jamaica (7:05pm San Pedro Sula, Honduras---Paramount+)
El Salvador v. Mexico (9:05pm San Salvador---Telemundo, Paramount+)

Other than US game, big match is Panama v. Canada in Toronto. These two are battling for 3rd and 4th right now, and Panama will be looking to claim a point in Canada. They are the best defensive side so far in the Octagon, so Canada may have trouble breaking them down. Should be a good match. You wonder if the Panama side's lack of player rotation will catch up to them against the speed of Canada.

Honduras-Jamaica is a battle to stay relevant in the pursuit of a World Cup spot. Honduras will already be looking for a new coach come Thursday, as Coito is already out as the Honduran coach and the Jamaica game will be his last in charge. Whitmore's job as the Jamaican coach will lso likely come to an end unless they claim a win at San Pedro Sula. Loser of this match will be too far back to have a realistic chance at qualification.

Mexico will travel to El Salvador and you never know how secure Gio Martino's job is for the Mexican side. After a listless 1-1 home draw with Canada, El Tri dominated a 10 man Honduran squad, 3-0, in their last match. El Salvador began this round with a 1-0 home win over Panama, and looked like they were on their way up the standings when they had a 1-0 lead away to Costa Rica. But La Selecta could not hold on to the lead, dropping the match 2-1, and placing them in 6th place in the qualification battle.

Should be another interesting night in Concacaf.

Kevin the 3-legged dog said:

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oh no said:

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🚨 Sources tell me Ricardo Pepi's camp are in agreement on personal terms with Wolfsburg 🇩🇪 & are looking to close a deal with #DTID 🇺🇲 #USMNT

Haven't been able to reach his agent to confirm yet

— Chris Smith (@CJSmith91) October 12, 2021

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I like that move for him.

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I don't know if I do.

Weghorst is in his prime and is honestly one of the best goal-scorers in the Bundesliga over the past few years... He plays the full 90 a lot, and Wolfsburg primarily deploys a 4-2-3-1 system.
I'm not sure how much play time Pepi gets immediately.

TamuKid said:

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Kevin the 3-legged dog said:

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oh no said:

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🚨 Sources tell me Ricardo Pepi's camp are in agreement on personal terms with Wolfsburg 🇩🇪 & are looking to close a deal with #DTID 🇺🇲 #USMNT

Haven't been able to reach his agent to confirm yet

— Chris Smith (@CJSmith91) October 12, 2021

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I like that move for him.

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I don't know if I do.

Weghorst is in his prime and is honestly one of the best goal-scorers in the Bundesliga over the past few years... He plays the full 90 a lot, and Wolfsburg primarily deploys a 4-2-3-1 system.
I'm not sure how much play time Pepi gets immediately.

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You sound like you know more.

Good post. I stand corrected.

Unless Weghorst is going elsewhere

Kevin the 3-legged dog said:

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oh no said:

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🚨 Sources tell me Ricardo Pepi's camp are in agreement on personal terms with Wolfsburg 🇩🇪 & are looking to close a deal with #DTID 🇺🇲 #USMNT

Haven't been able to reach his agent to confirm yet

— Chris Smith (@CJSmith91) October 12, 2021

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I like that move for him.

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I wanna see him spend a couple seasons with Ajax.

El Salvador-Mexico game is on CBSSN if anyone wants to watch and avoid Paramount +

red card on El Salvador early second half. I don't think it was denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity- there was another man running behind.

This might get out of hand.

This game is in San Salvador.

Pk awarded in stoppage time to jiminez

Mexico converts an undeserved PK against El
Salvador in the closing minutes...

The Pilot said:

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Didn't matter, but it was a legit PK.

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WRONG on both accounts. It makes a difference in goal differential, and the El Salvador defender got the ball and it was a clean tackle...

Maybe you had a better view?

After Matchday 6:

Team Points +/-
1. Mexico 14 +7
2. USA 11 +5
3. Canada 10 +6
4. Panama 8 0
5. Costa Rica 6 -1
6. Jamaica 5 -4
7. Salvador 5 -5
8. Honduras 3 -8


Matchday 6 Results:
USA 2-1 Costa Rica
Canada 4-1 Panama
Honduras 0-2 Jamaica
El Salvador 0-2 Mexico

Was hoping for 7 points this window but 6 is fine too I guess.

We look clearly in the path of qualifying. I just hate giving up points.

aggiephoenix02 said:

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The Pilot said:

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Didn't matter, but it was a legit PK.

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WRONG on both accounts. It makes a difference in goal differential, and the El Salvador defender got the ball and it was a clean tackle...

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First, no referee gives a rats ass about GD. No call you make ever says "well I better not call this PK because goal difference is looming."

Second, its a obvious foul. The left leg of the defender hooks inside the attacker's legs and trips him. Its intentional, a foul and has a whiff of DOGSO. If hes not tripped hes getting a great shot. Its on the angle but pros can score there. Its a professional foul all the way and yellow for me just stopping the attack. Its anything but clean.

Really cool representation of our team here:

There's 32 field players in the pool here.

-- Only 6 of them are older than 26
-- 9 of the 10 starters are 24 or younger
-- A full 44% of the pool hasn't yet turned 22

Contrast this w/, say, Panama (via @BrianSciaretta https://t.co/g5cL6gO9sd) pic.twitter.com/T1cGphpE21

— Jerry Hinnen (@JerryHinnen) October 14, 2021

Don't know why he has Pulisic and Reyna switched in the formation. Threw me for a minute.

It's often not easy to find out what channel some of these games are on. For example, next month's game against Jamaica doesn't have a TV listing on the yahoo sports app, and it's not listed on the ussoccer website. I'm sure it's out there if I keep looking, but this seems to happen pretty often.

That's an away game so Paramount+ or CBSSN or Telemundo/Universo in Spanish

Seems like paramount+ has had all away games so far.

Just watch it on the Spanish channel, better coverage even if you can't understand much

Thanks. I wasn't aware of the "all away games are on Paramount Plus" thing. It's not a huge deal; I just don't understand it's not clearly listed.

KCup17 said:

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I don't know how you can visit this board and think that it is just like any other board. Have you visited f16 lately?

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The fact that my post, which wasn't directed at any one person, was deleted is a great example.