Eh, not a great game from him, but he's fine. Overrated by Gregg though. Starting to be exposed by top level competition. Some time in a European league would be good for him.

He is fine, and the players that could replace him are injured

Rather have Zimmerman than Long starting next to Ream. I'm not sure CCV is as dominant in the air as Zimmerman.

No he's just not that good anymore

I like his hair

He stays

You're wrong. He's the second best healthy centerback we have right now, and he was fairly solid vs England.

Dumb tackle in the Wales match but every defender does that occasionally.

Is this a joke thread?

I love WC on TexAgs.

Zimmerman was never a questioned starter coming in to the WC. He was a rock during qualifiers once he took the position. Unfortunately, our preferred pairings with Zimmerman were injured prior to the WC. Both of those guys (Robinson & Richards) make a better partner for Zimmerman because they can cover for his lack of speed.

If we took Zimmerman out, we'd probably never win a header again (slight exaggeration). He cleans up just about everything at the back. I was a little iffy on the partnership with Ream but they have been good so far.

Yes, the PK conceded against Wales was bad. But frankly it shouldn't have mattered - we can't solely blame him for the draw any more than we can blame our attack for not potting a second goal when we had Wales under immense pressure in the first half, and then virtually disappearing the second Wales upped their pressure on the ball after the break. And the CB partnership has been good otherwise. We've conceded 1 goal so far, it hasn't required a herculean effort from the GK a la Timmy vs Belgium either.

As jeffk implies, it's obvious this is the first time a lot of people have watched the USMNT.

It's no secret that the current state of our CB pool is not great, and then you add in the injuries it's even worse. We forget that we're also missing Miles Robinson who was a key cog in both the Nations League and Gold Cup title runs

And I'm sorry to come across as condescending, but we have the Saudi Arabian CB basically handing Lewy his first WC goal and folks apparently watching Zimm play and thinking he's somehow below average or a liability who needs benching. Is he perfect? Of course not, but we've allowed a single goal through two games against good attacking Euro teams so far (granted that one goal was due to his poor challenge).

CB is a tough position and even the best in the world have a blunder or two. (Take this from a guy who watches VVD at Liverpool weekly.) Some of the strongest anti-American bias I see during the WC is from American fans.

I can't understand why this thread exists. The time stamp on the OP is AFTER the England game. I could understand the negativity after the Wales game, but that England squad is loaded with some the greatest attacking talent in the world. We held them to 3 shots on target and 3 total corners. Our defensive organization was EXCELLENT. Our defense is not the problem.