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[soccer10k]

19 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Referees really need to start calling out these penalty takers for stopping.  It's one thing when the stutters clearly have movement, even if it's an exaggerated trailing leg swing, but Ronaldo came to a dead stop twice on his penalty.  It's always been against the spirit of the rule but now they're starting to flaunt the letter of it too.

Was talking to my dad about this last night and I 100% agree. Lewandowski does it too and I can't stand it. Like you said it's gone way too far.

[UMFan83]

England have played very meh this whole tournament and here they are in the semis with probably the easier SF draw

[JHBulls]

Turkey take the lead.

[stitchface]

while I'm not a fan of the guy, Netherlands always look so much more threatening with Weghorst in there than without.

[soccer10k]

Columbia showing how a real team takes care of business against Panama.

[bukie]

As disappointing as this tournament has been for USMNT fans, I do admit it's always funny to see Panama get throttled when their CONCACAFing horsefeathers doesn't work against a quality opponent. 

[soccer10k]

Uruguay-Brazil had 41 fouls and only 4 shots on goal. That seems less than ideal.

[stitchface]

Who should coach USMNT next? 16 replacements for Berhalter - ESPN

 

Who's your favorite? I have to admit I would be intrigued by Tuchel for the short-term two year window. I wonder what Puli would say

Edited July 8, 2024 by stitchface

[stitchface]

the fact that the US is using 2 or 3 overage slots on center backs makes me a little concerned . . . do we not have available options coming up?

[JHBulls]

 

Oof. 😂 

[Jason Ross]

6 hours ago, stitchface said:

Who should coach USMNT next? 16 replacements for Berhalter - ESPN

 

Who's your favorite? I have to admit I would be intrigued by Tuchel for the short-term two year window. I wonder what Puli would say

I'd like to see someone tactically versatile. It's why I didn't love Marsch yeah he's done decent with Canada but his big knock at Leeds was that once things didn't work, Jesse had no answers. He just kept banging his head against the wall. 

Truly, someone like Thomas Frank is the answer. Now, it won't be Frank for a lot of reasons; one, he's not leaving a PL club like Brentford for a national job in the States. Maybe if Denmark came calling, but even then, I think it's kind of a very special place to pull him out of there. But realistically, his style of being very tactically flexible and hitting teams on the counter I think plays really well for the USMNT. He can play tika-taka when he's got the side (I.E. see Brentford in Championship) but when he's outgunned, with less talent can out tactic even some of the best (I.E. pulled the double on City in 22/23). 

Find me a Frank. 

[cl smooth]

2-1 Spain after 25 minutes. 

this goal: 

 

[JHBulls]

What a great match this is turning out to be.

Lamine Yamal is a sensational footballer. The kids only 16. 

[soccer10k]

The 5 France matches before today had a total of 4 goals, none of which came from open play. We had 3 goals, all from open play, in only 25 minutes today.

[stitchface]

great first half! If only all games looked like this!

[JHBulls]

 

Imagine Morata possibly missing the final because security are useless. 

[stitchface]

3 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

 

Imagine Morata possibly missing the final because security are useless. 

would be great for Spain's chances but seriously, this is how many instances now?

 

[stitchface]

good game - spain really controlled the latter part of the game even without the ball. they look the best team in the world right now.

[Derwood]

Dammit, Netherlands

[cl smooth]

What an awesome match.

[cl smooth]

 

[JHBulls]

[UMFan83]

So congrats to Spain for winning the Euros!

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Multiple sources reporting that Berhalter is out.

 

I don't think he's uniquely great, but I've been so reverse polarized by the QSMNT discourse that I'm annoyed that they're doing this for basically doing exactly what they expected, minus Tim Weah losing his mind for a minute.  Mostly though it's going to be funny/frustrating listening to how incompetent/corrupt/in bed with MLS the federation is when considering candidates. Then even if everyone's favorite candidate gets hired the results will be the same, because international soccer is an all-star game with a couple weeks of practice a year and managers don't matter unless they lead to player revolt.

[Tim]

6 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Multiple sources reporting that Berhalter is out.

 

I don't think he's uniquely great, but I've been so reverse polarized by the QSMNT discourse that I'm annoyed that they're doing this for basically doing exactly what they expected, minus Tim Weah losing his mind for a minute.  Mostly though it's going to be funny/frustrating listening to how incompetent/corrupt/in bed with MLS the federation is when considering candidates. Then even if everyone's favorite candidate gets hired the results will be the same, because international soccer is an all-star game with a couple weeks of practice a year and managers don't matter unless they lead to player revolt.

As a super-casual observer that knows nothing, it seemed like the team played a completely different style for the short period where they had a different manager. Am I way off base?