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Pulisic out 10 days.
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How good is Costa Rica? All I know is they’re typically right up there with us and Mexico. Hope they win the first two and then whatever happens in Costa Rica is gravy. You could definitely convince me 7 should be the minimum though if Costa Rica is nothing special. someone else can give you a better answer but I was under the impression that they were definitely a step down from where they've been in recent years failing to beat this ageing costa rica team at home would be very disappointing. More so than any of the results in this window. 12 after two windows would be reasonable - I always though 5 was the low end of acceptable in this window but I think its probably 7 in the next window - maybe 6 is low end.
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boy, gotta think 7 is the minimum there - win both home games and get a point on the road. Can't be dropping points at home to the two bottom teams and need to at least hold Panama.
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horsefeathers yeah. Things I wouldn't mind never seeing on the USMNT again: John Brooks Josh Sargent (unless he gets much better) James Sands Matt Turner with the ball at his feet (ok, love his shot-stopping but he is scary with the ball at his feet) Kellyn Acosta taking 7 touches Tyler Adams anywhere but in the midfield Pulisic on the turf injured And 4th goal slides them into 3rd . . .
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not a good result for the US given we'll be in dogfight for fourth. absolutely terrible. Get Sargent and Sands off the horsefeathering pitch. Put your only good midfielder back in the midfield and tell everyone else if they don't start running off the ball they're off the horsefeathering team. That is just plain embarassing. How horsefeathering slow can you play!? Why is no one running off the ball? What the horsefeathers!
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just stop being such a cheap ass lol, I pay for like 20 different streaming/subscription services. The only thing I found worth watching on Paramount+ during the trial was the Dream Team documentary. I'm not going to pay just to watch the 2-3 WCQs that are exclusively on the streaming network. champions league!
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just stop being such a cheap ass
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So much focus on who is the 9 but after these two games, the problem to me seems to be who is the 10? Gio? There was no one in charge of the middle of the attack.
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Probably doesn't make sense for Gio to play all three games anyway. What a farce in Brazil! The idea that a country can decide not to allow players from certain other countries seems problematic - for instance, can Paraguay say they aren't allowing any players from Europe due to COVID? Would certainly level the playing field. Seems like Argentina should have complied but the absurdity of interrupting the game 5 minutes in is a bit much.
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what bbct said seems about right and agree on being out of sync and bad touches. The field seemed really small too. Sargent needs to shoot the damn ball.
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Konrad seemed like the only one who could run with the ball - the midfield looked awful to me (I missed the first 30). I am wondering if they should just make Dest a forward?
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that was not good. contrary to what someone else said though, El Salvador may be the third best team in concacaf and this was one of the tougher road tests. awful game to watch.
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It looks like it's: Thursday/El Salvador: CBS Sports Network, Paramount+, Universo Sunday/Canada: FS1, Unimas, TUDN Wednesday/Honduras: Paramount+, Universo So the Honduras game is behind a non-cable paywall unless you have Universo, but the other 2 have more distribution. I have paramount+!
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Are the games televised? Anyone know? FS?
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ah, should have known united would never let ronaldo play for city
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As a Bruges fan, I'm not happy with this draw - about as tough as it could possibly get. yea, that's brutal
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Tough draw for Leipzig and Jesse Marsch. Some pretty weak groups out there . . . Marsch may wish he was still at Salzburg GROUP A: Manchester City (England), Paris Saint-Germain (France), RB Leipzig (Germany), Club Brugge (Belgium). GROUP B: Atletico Madrid (Spain), Liverpool (England), FC Porto (Portugal), AC Milan (Italy). GROUP C: Sporting CP (Portugal), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Ajax (Netherlands), Besiktas (Turkey). GROUP D: Inter Milan (Italy), Real Madrid (Spain), Shakhtar Dontesk (Ukraine), FC Sheriff Tiraspol (Moldova). GROUP E: Bayern Munich (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Benfica (Portugal), Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine). GROUP F: Villarreal (Spain), Manchester United (England), Atalanta (Italy), Young Boys (Switzerland). GROUP G: Lille (France), Sevilla (Spain), FC Salzburg (Austria), Wolfsburg (Germany). GROUP H: Chelsea (England), Juventus (Italy), Zenit St. Petersburg (Russia), Malmo (Sweden).
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Who is Pefot? Weah is an interesting one.
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You should be able to edit the OP like any other post. When you do that, you can change the thread title as well. Davies G1 and Steele G2. Interesting that the games are back to back meaning the Cubs are foregoing a game worth of ticket revenue for this DH. I guess there goes any big FA signings this offseason. Duh, was looking for a separate option. Thanks. I'm also surprised they're going back to back. Maybe trying to win some goodwill from the fans? more likely they know they won't be able to sell any more tickets any way
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Shot my best round ever after a month off so sometimes it helps!
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Was obviously happy with the result but the performance was good also. They let City have the ball but defended well and actually seemed willing to attack when they did have the ball, which is a big difference from the Mourinho era. Last year too often they didn't seem to want to even try to attack against the big clubs. So while the possession today was basically identical to when Spurs beat City last year (66-34), this year they took 13 shots in the game as opposed to only 3 in the win last year. In fact, in 3 games against City last year, Spurs took 13 shots total. Of course it's only 1 game and they could easily crap the bed on the road against Wolves next week. Moura was great - I've always liked him as a player and he showed well yesterday.
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fun first weekend! Deserved win for Spurs - Barca looked the opposite of City - they actually attacked the goal! City looked awful (until KDB came on).
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idk why anyone is even getting their hopes up of us adding somebody like seager Well I mean if this team showed a pulse, it makes selling whatever vision Jed has easier. At that point it becomes a money thing. But if this team continues to play like this there is no way to convince him they are going to be as competitive as other teams who are bidding for him it's not the NBA, if they offer more money, players will come. I guarantee no players are out there saying, "oh, that team has a losing stink." give me a break.
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Is that not true for every team? With the possible exception of the Dodgers, I don't think many teams are consistently sustaining success. Dodgers are a bit of an outlier with their ownership and TV deal Not many big market teams trade all of their biggest stars and reboot. The Yankees and Red Sox have had their share of struggles but neither has undertaken a full gut and rebuild of their teams. The Astros blossomed a year before us and are still among the best teams in baseball. In my mind it all comes down to strong farm and development for sustained success. If you can't figure that out your stars eventually get old or overpaid and there's no one to replace them. It's not even about trading chips anymore either as teams horde their top guys more and more. The Cubs failed to practice the dual fronts approach that they preached, and were not drafting/developing well enough to avoid what happened 2 weeks ago. Theo succeeded in winning the WS but failed in building a consistently good team. Some bad luck with the regression but ultimately a failure. Teams like Oakland and Tampa Bay are consistently good without full rebuilds and basically no resources. The cubs are very poorly managed.
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boy is ESPN pissed. I don't think PSG has fewer interesting games than Barcelona really. They didn't even win the league last year. Plus they'll have lots of chances for beautiful goals. La Liga is a much better league than Ligue 1 so they’d at least have a couple games each against the two Madrid teams. I suppose by interesting I mean competitive as well. I know PSG won’t win every league game this year but you know what I mean. They’re going to steamroll the league. I was hoping he’d go to England at some point just to see how he would do there. This just seems like he’s going for the paycheck, to coast through most of the season and to pad his stats against much weaker competition. I know if he went to City they’d win the league again and at least one cup competition. But it would have been fun to see him in the Premier League. PSG did not win Ligue 1 last year . . . Premier league would be an awful destination for Messi. Wrong style, too physical. I don't think there were too many options out there realistically. He wants to win the champions league.