It was a 0.00 xG.

🇺🇸 This Konrad de la Fuente assist from earlier today 👏👏👏

pic.twitter.com/gIkP57IIKs

— USMNT Nation🫡🇺🇸 (@USMNTvsHaters) October 30, 2024

Weah'.

Timothy Weah equalizes score with Francisco Conceição assist

Juventus 2-2 Parmapic.twitter.com/rIMtWy3DR5

— Goals Xtra (@GoalsXtra) October 30, 2024

A record 9 Americans played in the Champions league in the same day, including the debut of 18 year old Cole Campbell in the Champions league. Hopefully his Dortmund career is more like Christian's.

Doesn’t paint the whole picture, but here are the FotMob ratings for the Americans in the Champions League today 🇺🇸

Wins for Tillman, Pepi, Pulisic, Musah, Trusty, CCV, and Campbell. Draw for Weah and McKennie.

Some good performances, some ok, some meh/not enough time given🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/dkxAlUNeGM

— USMNT Nation🫡🇺🇸 (@USMNTvsHaters) November 5, 2024

MALIK TILLMAN GOES ALL THE WAY. WHAT A GOAL FOR PSV IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 🇺🇸🔥 pic.twitter.com/BkIfxwysUu

— USMNT Only (@usmntonly) November 5, 2024

PULISIC ASSIST AGAINST REAL MADRID. CP11 DROPPING DIMES AT THE BERNABEU. SAVOR THESE MOMENTS 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️pic.twitter.com/yLsxHSg5Sf

— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) November 5, 2024

The rapid improvement of Pulisic's corners is insane.

fig96 said:

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The rapid improvement of Pulisic's corners is insane.

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His lack of quality corners was highly exagerated. He hit a few not good ones, but overall they were good. Not as good and consistent as he'd doing now. He almost had another assist on a corner that hit the post.

A picture with aura 🥶🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ko63fQ7v9s

— Tactical Manager (@ManagerTactical) November 6, 2024

That pitch though...looks better than fake grass.

He's been much much better for his clubs than he has for USMNT… my (probably bad) take is that it's similar to the overall problems we see in final third. Guys don't know where they ought to be so we get a lot of crosses to thin air. And/or it could be that Ggg never spent much time on set pieces so CP never really knew where he was supposed to be aiming.

Did you just remember the password to this account?

How many sock puppet accounts does he have?

fanboy is Rudyjax, right?

oh no said:

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fanboy is Rudyjax, right?

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I think so…

I think if you were to go back and watch them again, some were good. Some were bad.

The fact the USMNT did nothing with them colored his good ones after a bad one.

But abysmal all the time is just bias.

Yup, I wouldn't say he was completely awful before but he wasn't getting assists off corners weekly.

Aston94 said:

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oh no said:

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fanboy is Rudyjax, right?

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I think so…

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This is Rudyjax.

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I wouldn't exactly call him young anymore, but to another point you've made in the past… CP has become a key player for Milan; they rely on him more than any team he's played for… and he's perhaps even approaching the point of becoming "the guy" for them. A lot of growth can happen when you're given responsibilities and people rely on you. He's thriving in Milan and it's great to see.

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Whether he was bad at it or not is moot now. He's really good at it now.

Tuesday, 18-year-old American Cole Campbell made his Champions League debut for Borussia Dortmund.

It was a historic day for USMNT players in the Champions League — a record NINE players featured on the same UCL matchday.

▫️ Christian Pulisic (AC Milan)
▫️ Yunus Musah (AC… pic.twitter.com/5gyATZY5xE

— USMNT Only (@usmntonly) November 6, 2024

Think Poch will call him up?

Since Cole is on the U20 team, he probably won't get the call up.

Preparation continues for the 2025 U-20 @FIFAWorldCup

The #U20MYNT is heading to Spain from Nov 11-19 for a training camp and matches against Korea Republic 🇰🇷 and France 🇫🇷

— U.S. Soccer YNT (@USYNT) November 8, 2024

Paxten Aaronson 🫡🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/3vgB24jxse

— USMNT Nation🫡🇺🇸 (@USMNTvsHaters) November 8, 2024

Is Brad Guzan still our best keeper?

Pahdz said:

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Is Brad Guzan still our best keeper?

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His last two games against Miami are shades of Timmy vs Belgium.

He may be the most in form, but will he be at 42 at the WC?

roster too many dual nationals: people complain because they don't "want" it bad enough

roster too many homegrown/MLS players: people complain because they aren't talented enough

just need to keep development going in our youth systems at MLS Next & boys ECNL so we keep getting MLS kids sent to Europe. Kids like Aaronson, Sargent, Pulisic, McKinney, Adams, etc. are the sweet spot where they're developing the requisite talent and they want to rep the stars & stripes deep down in their bones.

I'm not convinced we have the right pathways set up in our youth system - at least it's still not ideal. There are a lot of issues still with it. Now we're about 5 removed from USSF getting rid of the DA and relying on MLS for youth development so we should start to see if there's a fall off in the overall talent and depth in the player pool. MLS and USSF need to keep making in-roads with the popularity of the sport for youth athletes as well.


we do seem past the days of half our roster being dual nat Germans who exist because their father had a brief stint at a military base over there and we can be more selective when there's a really talented dual nat like Balogan who can integrate into the squad and upgrade the talent.

Aston94 said:

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It is a fine balance. That's why guys like Antonee Robinson are so special, a dual national who plays his tail off and has really integrated into the team.

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And I'm sure Jedi really wanted to be a part of the team.

Aston94 said:

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It is a fine balance. That's why guys like Antonee Robinson are so special, a dual national who plays his tail off and has really integrated into the team.

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Robinson is always fully engaged in singing the national anthem before each and every game. He's fully bought in.

Late to the discussion here… I can't remember which Kickin It episode it was, but they were joking about how flabbergasted Tim Chandler was the first time he played at some CONCACAF dump. He refused to get called up the next time. And I think that's common. I suspect it's why we don't see Bundesliga starters like Pefok and Maloney anymore.

Tyler Adams has spoken about how when his teammates at Leipzig would give him **** for playing Grenada or whoever while they were playing France, he flat out told them that it's harder to travel across the world and play in those dumps.

There's nothing inherently wrong with dual-nats, but if you don't have the extra incentive of pride in your country, then you're not gonna put up with the BS of CONCACAF. And if you're not gonna put up with that, you don't deserve to come play in a WC IMO.

I don't agree with Donovan about much, but I think his take on dual-nats was spot on. If a guy isn't going to spend any time in the US when their time on USMNT is done… they probably shouldn't have ever been on the team. You have to have some level of pride in that part of your nationality. He didn't drop any names from his playing days (and did mention that Jermaine Jones was NOT one of these types), but he made it clear that there were dual-nats whose apathy affected the whole team.