Confederations Cup

[OumaFan]

Much angrier at Clark than the ref, it was a horrible tackle, and just flat out dumb, he's a fucking idiot who's done stupid shit before, as in kicking somebody in the head while they were on the ground.

Actually forget that I'm more pissed at Bradley for even including that dumb POS.

[OumaFan]

I thought Altidore, Donovan, Dempsey, Bradley Jr., Spector, and maybe Demerit were good. The rest, meh.

[El Kabong]

It seems as if we're focusing 100% of our offense on Landon Donovan and his ability to handle the PK's....it's ridiculous! We need to have some flow on offense!!!!

[ono]

why I'm excited about this I don't know, it will just be frustrating as hell, our coach is distrustful of players that try to keep the ball away from the other team

Actually though the United States took the only point off Italy in the whole last World Cup, how that happens I don't fucking know

US should at the very worst take 3rd. Good win over egypt and perhaps a point from either brazil or italy and who knows what might happen.

Gotta believe it`ll be brazil-spain in the final though!!

For anyone wishing to put a few quid on the next world cup however do not look past argentina or the netherlands!!!

The same Argentina that lost 6-1 to Bolivia? Not sure why anybody would pick them out of all the favouritues with the form they have been showing in qualification.

Holland/Spain/England on the other hand....

[El Kabong]

Bruce Arena never even tried to get Rossi to play for the US.....how good could we be with guys like Jones and Rossi playing with us from the get go

Altidore, Rossi

Adu, Jones, Donovan, Dempsey

Cherundolo, Onyewu, Bocanegra, Spector

Howard

That's a lineup we SHOULD be able to do something with!


Oh FYI, Kenny Cooper 4 caps for the US and 2 goals.....why can't he be on the squad?

[OumaFan]

Well of course he can be on the squad but after calling up Conor Casey its clear that Bradley has no use for him.

I think the addition of Jones could open things up a bit for Adu. He doesn't really play defense but with this lineup Adu could roam a bit and be almost solely an attacker. And we obviously need the creativity.

Altidore

Donovan Adu Dempsey

Jones Bradley

Spector/Boca Boca/Demerit Gooch Cherundolo/Spector

Howard

[El Kabong]

Conor Casey isn't better than Kenny Cooper...Kenny can win headers, we NEED that, our only guy who can win headers for us right now is Gooch, and he's not all that wonderful at it.

I'm surprised Cooper isn't playing overseas yet

[OumaFan]

I would go with this against Brazil

Altidore

Donovan Adu Dempsey

Bradley Torres

Boca Demerit Gooch Spector

I just want Bornstein out. I've been reasonably impressed with Spector.

[El Kabong]

Spector is a solid player! I think Maurice Edu needs some run before Torres.

We have a good core group of young talent, but they have got to step it up!!!

I also don't think any of our strikers are good enough to work up front alone...Altidore is good but he needs help.

[OumaFan]

Yeah but who do we have over there that can help him? I'm not sure Casey helps that much, having Adu and Donovan in behind him might help more.

The one thing I like about Torres more than Edu is he keeps possession better, is generally more skilled as far as touch, dribbling, passing, etc. Edu is clearly a better ball winner/destroyer type. But I thought Bradley did a pretty good job of that the other day. Thing is for Bradley to play Adu in a attacking mid type role he'd probably want Bradley and Edu in there to shore up the defense.

[El Kabong]

I say you move Dempsey up front....Clint is a good distributer of the ball and with Jozy at striker and Landon at CAM he'd have plenty of options to pass and he could also take some of his own chances. ALSO we could consider pairing Altidore and Adu up front....Freddy is creative as hell and he can put the ball away too, only we would give away a lot of size with Freddy not being much more than 5'8 or so.

I just think giving Kenny Cooper a shot even as a guy who can come off the bench late as we press and get corner kicks, is a wise idea.

The coaching and on the field play have been bad, we haven't attacked, we haven't controlled the pace, and we just haven't finished our chances.

[OumaFan]

I agree for the most part. Surprisingly enough I think we did two out of three fairly well for the first half against Italy, we just didn't finish chances.

[El Kabong]

I also think our guys need to get the fuck over playing in "hostile environments" I understand Tico's was astroturf but get the fuck over angry fans who throw stuff at you and shout at you!!! Boston goes into Yankee Stadium and they aren't affected by the stadium, The Florida Gators go to UGA and LSU and they don't cry and whine about it, UNC goes to Cameron In-Door Stadium and they don't care about rowdy fans....get over it!

The guys we need to use more: Adu, Cooper, Altidore, Feilhaber, Spector, Edu and this new kid Jones

The guys we need to use less: Mastreoni, Beasley, Ching, Davies, and Casey

[OumaFan]

This lineup is a joke. I wouldn't be surprised if we lost 5-0. Fire him now.

[OumaFan]

haha Demarcus Beasley is the worst player ever. EVER.

Fire him now.