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[expletive] off Davis. Get off the field.
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Davis is giving Beasley no cover, and Gonzalez has already shanked a clearance.
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We have like 1% possession right now.
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Basically US v Bayern today.
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This is a mistake. Omar loses his mark badly at least twice a game. He's immobile. He's been a disasater for the last 3 months for the NT and is coming off a knee injury. Davis isn't remotely good enough for this level. No need to elaborate. He's a good pro for Houston, but he's firmly below the Ralston Line. This gives me absolutely zero confidence.
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What the hell? Gonzalez and Davis?
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I think that's a far ban. I don't know anything about anything about soccer, but wasn't there talk of like a 2 year ban? The max punishment was 24 matches or 24 months. But FIFA are pretty shrewd here; its a long enough ban to seem tough, but not so long as it pushes Liverpool to intervene and turn the thing into a true mess. This way, he's banned til late October, so he'll also miss 9 league games, the start of the Champions League and the League Cup, which he wouldn't have played in anyway but still.
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The field is fine, albeit a bit wet, and FIFA already said the game won't be PPD. The US regularly plays on worse fields in CA and the Caribbean during qualifying. There was a qualifier in Havana back in 2008 that was played in a monsoon at night on a field with only half the lights working.
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Poor conditions are usually an equalizer, assuming both teams are going to play this game straight. Ze Germans aren't usually used to playing on poor fields. This is just usual CONCACAF stuff for us. Of course, the poor field also might mean they approach the game with more caution, which is just fine by me as well.
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Evidently its raining and flooded in Recife today.
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I'd prefer enough strife that they lose, but not so much that they get blown out-even with it being unlikely that Portugal can make up 5 goals today. As an aside, KPB is a hack mercenary. I don't get why they even brought him after his "retirement" and convenient "unretirement" from international play.
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So that's US advancing on head to head, since goal difference and goals scored would be the same? ETA: Assuming we don't get blown out, it's immensely important we score at least once.
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I still don't have a very good feeling about tomorrow. I can see our guys ballwatching, failing to track runners, getting pulled out of position and going down 2 early. If that happens, I don't know if we have the legs to chase. Recife at 11 is going to be no different than Manaus. And the only way I don't see Ghana rolling Portugal is if Bento starts William Carvalho, Amorim and Vierinha, as opposed to the corpse of Raul Meireles and company.
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He did the Mexico-Croatia game. He's...not a good ref. The two clear, blown handballs that he missed against Croatia in that game should have been enough to guarantee him not getting another CR assignment. Its worth noting he blew calls at last year's Confeds.
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Oh, please tell me it was that douche Toure that conceded the PK
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And Hellenic Italy are going through. Unreal.
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Odds that FIFA retro-bans Suarez?
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https://twitter.com/fifaworldcuptm/status/481492013255516161
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The irony of Suarez biting Chiellini is that both guys are horrible bastards. And I'm almost okay with it considering Italy are going to be knocked out.
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JK was yelling at everyone to press high for some inexplicable reason. Gonzalez got caught upfield and then ballwatched. His ass should have been planted in the D permanently from the moment he came on to deal with any crosses into the area.
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You have to think that has a lot to do with who had the ball don't you? To have nearly the entire team out of position? Absolutely not. The only player who was where he was supposed to be was Beasley. Everyone else was at least 15 yards too far forward. That has nothing to do with it being CR7 with the ball, and everything to do with our players and our manager (if he really was yelling for them to press up like the feed seems to suggest) completely losing their minds from a tactical and common sense standpoint. If our back 5 are where they should be, that ball is cut out of the air before it gets anywhere near Varela. If our midfielders were in position, CR7 never has space to make that cross and we're talking about which backups to play on Thursday.
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Amateur hour defending.
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Yeah, if we're down 1-0 and we see Portugal up 1-0 midway through second half, we know either Portugal has to score three more times or Ghana has to score twice so we'd do whatever we could to not allow a goal. We'll try hard from the start, but depending on the situation, we may go into a defensive mode. The worry I have is that our defenders, and Fabian in particular, get caught ball watching too often and fail to track runners, which is what Germany's attack is built on.
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Yeah, him or Jones were very gassed. I understand why JK put Omar in, superficially, but in hindsight, it would have been better had he brought Chandler in. 3 CBs on the field just creates confusion about who should be marking who. And lets be real: he's been a jinx the last few games he's played.
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Yeah, lot of questions. Like you said in a previous post (I think it was you, sorry, in a daze), the US lost on a counter when leading with less than a minute remaining in stoppage. The defensive line seemed too high, the midfielders certainly weren't all deep enough, the players were too casual with the ball when booting it to the corner would have been fine (this was true against Ghana too), Ronaldo was lost (and even worse, lost on DMB's side, who was absolutely gassed), and no professional foul either? I think DMB was worried about stepping up and getting beat by Ronaldo, and not being able to foul him, and leaving him a clear path into the 18. But just no excuse for getting beaten on a ball behind you. If we crash out Thursday, that sequence is going to burn into the memories of those guys for a while, since it was completely preventable and a total breakdown of common soccer sense.