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Is TAA the worst defender in the premier league?
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reminds me of being a Cubs fan . . . you should try it! That's a bad injury for Weston - hopefully he's back for WC (he should be - my daughter had this same injury a couple years ago and she was back in 4 months and fully in 6 so presumably with advanced treatment, he'll be ready.
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good goal - funny how much better Pulisic is when he's put in a good position.
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mine too! Though I'm not 22 - my daughter wears 22 though . . . does that count? Am I special?
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Dest had a great game today. He seems like he re-discovered himself in that last window. Just needs to improve those crosses and his defensive body positioning. The Gio news really sucks.
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impressive win. teams that counter-attack with pace can get the better of City.
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he is Messi - just not as good. Do you guys think Berhalter's salary is justified? Is he that much better than replacement level?
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decent summary of national team pay: https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-usaw/story/4589310/uswntusmnt-pay-gap-explained-comparing-their-us-soccer-contracts-as-both-sides-negotiate-new-cbas
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semantics. Would have been really easy to lose between Wisconsin and Purdue on the road at Indiana.
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Great to see though he didn't look great. Dortmund really horsefeathers the bed though. I think Leverkusen is my new favorite team to watch!
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If they beat IU on Saturday, they would be comfortably in the top 10 if not for the Maryland disaster. If they could ever get their whole team on the court at the same time . . . huge win at IU - this was a trap game for sure and to win by 17 on the road is big.
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I haven't deeply investigated this(and some of it is unknowable), but there's a theory that if you make offsides more lenient, you actually suppress scoring because defenders respond by playing lower lines and take fewer chances. That might not be the worst thing in the world given the current trend towards 90 minutes of pressing, but it's one of those counterintuitive things where you do have to be mindful of how incentives change behavior. but that would open more space . . . I agree it could have unforeseen consequences but I actually don't think this would be that big of a change. except of course what constitutes whole body . . .
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I'm a technology guy and I want them to keep incorporating ideas like this, but they have to stop with the idea that we can objectively know if a player's armpit is an inch and a half offside, at a minimum the cameras are not good enough for that. Build in a margin for error where it's inconclusive and the original call stands. It will be interesting to see how good it is. I don't think there is an original call. They could amend it to full body is offside - would lead to more scoring and also allow for easier calls for ARs where technology is not in place. Simple problem for ARs is they cannot be watching ball, multiple attackers and defenders at same time- it's an impossible rule to enforce.
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https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-club-world-cup/story/4585586/robot-var-offside-disallows-first-goal-at-fifa-club-world-cup
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upping the ante on bad conditions is not a good thing. I don't know if y'all saw the story on the AFCON ref calling the game early - twice. My immediate thought was heat exhaustion - he ended up in the hospital. There are limits.
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yes, this was the perfect kind of game for Acosta, where he isn't handling the ball under pressure out of the back. That's where he makes me really nervous.
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US has to beat Panama. It really comes down to that. A draw might be enough but that's leaving things in the hands of others. I was worried about the midfield going into this Honduras game but they were really good. Good to see some options there - granted against weaker competition but in earlier qualifiers, the US failed to dominate the midfield (see Honduras first half the first time)
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Acosta was really really good. Overall, US got what we needed - an early goal, a set piece goal (or 3) and 3 points. The attack generated a few more chances from open play but wasn't very convincing - hard to judge in those shitty conditions. Hopefully Pulisic's equivalent of a seeing-eye single gets him going.
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I was hoping for guess what an idiot with a broom did now since the curling starts today
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https://www.espn.com/soccer/video/latest-videos/600/video/4584271
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ugh. that's horrible.
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They also had to rotate a lot in 3 game windows, and Berhalter explicitly mentioned cutting out the travel time would help them need to rotate less. Looking at the midfield since that's a place where rotation is needed quickly and there's less depth: @ El Salvador: Adams/McKennie/Aaronson v. Canada: Adams/Lletget/Acosta @ Honduras: Adams/Sands/Acosta v. Jamaica: Adams/McKennie/Musah @ Panama: Musah/Lletget/Acosta v. Costa Rica: Adams/McKennie/Musah Compare to this window which saw MMA start both games, and while Adams is out with injury I'd fully expect McKennie/Musah to start tonight. In fact there was basically no rest-based rotation for Canada at all, which given the way we approached matchday 4-6 should imply there's going to be very little tonight. Is that worth playing in St. Paul? I'd say no when you could play in like Nashville and have none of this hassle without a ton of extra flight time. But there is a benefit they're getting from it. I may not be far enough into my coffee but not sure what you are saying here. I don't see how an extra hour or two in the air makes a damn bit of difference. I agree with the sentiment that they are over-thinking it. I think the lack of midfield rotation is my biggest worry for today - McKennie has to be spent and they may be screwed without him.
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I wish outside of Mexico and maybe Costa Rica, we’d just play these games in the best conditions possible. Warner weather, better field, field size you prefer. As TT said, the worse conditions favor the underdog and even things up. That’s why the other teams play us on awful fields all the time. Mucking it up gives them a better chance at a result. well, the panama game is in Miami . . . supposedly this was all about shorter flights . . . which is asinine.
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I think that bet had to have been made before the season started to get a payout like that, right? I don't see a date on there but I doubt it. To get the exact scores of two playoff games on a parlay would be ridiculous odds. i was sure 49ers would beat bengals again in super bowl.
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I'm getting extremely sick of all these proposals offering advantages to "small-market" teams when everyone is treating the CBT like a salary cap anyway so the big-market teams (and really, I mean big-market fan bases) aren't really getting any of the advantages they're supposed to be getting by being big-market teams. sounds like communism