England v USA

[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.