England v USA

[Master]

England were poor last night but the USA were worse and should have gone for us.

[El Kabong]

hattonthehammer, Lampard doesn't play well with Gerrard and if ANYONE is going to help England score it's Stevie G!


As for your assesment of the US and their formation....they are away, they are playing England, they don't have their best players.....what do they have to lose? Sure by playing a heavy defense they kept the score low and thus it didn't look like a total blowout but did the US have any decent chances

Playing a 5-4-1 crowds the midfielders and it's based upon the assumption we have a striker that can actually take over a game by himself which is just insane.

The US should run a 4-4-2 with one midfielder in attack and one dropped back in defense WHY? Because Landon Donovan (who didn't play the other day) is a man without a true position as is Clint Dempsey...those guys are midfielders/forwards Landon because he can't cope with the traffic running through the midfield and Dempsey because he's slower than most midfielders.

We NEED two strikers because it takes the pressure off of just one guy to score they share the load and therefore can divide and conquer the defense.

I would like to see:

Strikers: Johnson, Altidore (Cooper, Zizzo, Donovan)

CAM: Dempsey (Bradley, Altidore, Donovan, Mapp)

LM/RM: Adu, Donovan (Bradley, Beasley, Mapp)

CDM: Feilhaber (Edu, Ricardo Clarke)

LB/LCB: Cherundolo, Onyewu

RB/RCB: Bocanegra, Hejduk

GK: Howard

You free up the midfield, give athletic guys space and let Dempsey distribute the ball and you're going to get a ton more goals.

The US is athletic enough to compete with anyone, we just need to hone that and turn it into goals.

[OumaFan]

Now tomorrow we get Spain. Maybe I'm just not thinking positively enough.

[El Kabong]

Here's the players on the active roster for the Spain game...


Goalkeepers: Dominic Cervi (no club), Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Tim Howard (Everton, England)
Defenders: Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham, England), Dan Califf (Midtjylland, Denmark), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover, Germany), Jay DeMerit (Watford, England), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus), Oguchi Onyewu (Standard Liege, Belgium), Heath Pearce (Hansa Rostock, Germany)
Midfielders: Freddy Adu (Benfica, Portugal), DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland), Michael Bradley (Heerenveen, Netherlands), Maurice Edu (Toronto), Eddie Lewis (Derby, England), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado) Forwards: Clint Dempsey (Fulham, England), Nate Jaqua (Rheindorf-Altach, Austria), Eddie Johnson (Fulham, England), Josh Wolff (1860 Munich, Germany)

[OumaFan]

I'm not gonna go into what I want to see cause I know he's gonna go with two holding mids in the center. Just no Josh Wolff please. If Donovan's back, go with him, Beasley, Dempsey, and Johnson in some kind of attacking mid/striker combination along with Bradley and Edu I guess as the two central mids.

I don't know a whole lot about Jaqua. I know he was in MLS last year, I just forget for who. Maybe Houston? If I remember correctly he's kind of a big guy so if we go with striker only it might be him.

[OumaFan]

Lyle, it looks like Altidore is going to Spain to play for Villareal. MLS apparently got ten million dollars for him.

And Donovan is out again.

[El Kabong]

That is really awesome for Jozy I think a lot of people in Europe will like that dude.



The US has played really well....sloppy at times but not sloppy enough for Spain to take advantage of it.....and no Donovan either!!!


Adu looked great before he got hurt....Dempsey is looking horrible....Johnson looks good though he had a PERFECT chance but couldn't finish!