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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.
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looks like I'm wrong.
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gross. our air cleared in time to play my first round since the 4th of July. I was great! Maybe I play too often.
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I'll be surprised if Messi isn't at Barcelona this season. Tebas can't afford to lose him any more than Barca. Sounds like Sargent is headed to Norwich.
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I found a good way to watch track! NBC has a replay of their broadcast online and you can skip to the events you want.
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I’ve said that for awhile about Javy. His best attributes are the things that will decline worst. Can you imagine Javy without elite bat speed? Or 1-2 steps slow on defense? Or quick reaction time? I still want him though because he has so much swag I’m going through swag withdrawal right now. as I said in the post above, I'm pretty sure these skills age better than old man skills, counter-intuitively.
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So, what is the disappointment? 1. Players that won in 2016 regressing going forward. 2. Management not investing to win again in the window. 3. Lack of development in the farm system. I don't see any rational reason to be upset they traded those three and re-signing any of them is likely a big mistake (though I do recall reading that speed skills like Javy has degrade slower than old man skill like Rizzo). Honestly, it was the offense that let us down after 2016 wasn't it? What could management have added?
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good stuff - thanks for posting.
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Turner was fantastic to be clear - the good news is the footwork is probably easier to work on than the positioning. Steffen is really hurt by not playing enough - being at man city is probably not good for his development. It's probably more than the mids - the forwards also need to be able to hold up the ball. Zardes is great on effort but not so much on touch. Same for Hoppe.
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I felt like that backline allowed too much dribbling space in many of the earlier games - better teams will take advantage - hard to gauge a defense against weak competition. Busio I thought was really good at times and really struggled at others - lots of reason to be optimistic but I don't think he is there yet. Not convinced they bossed the game but they definitely had some great chances and looked at least as likely to score in the second half. Mexico missed a couple sitters though that would make everyone see this much differently. Should be good for qualifying but not convinced on too many of these guys against top World Cup teams - I think they give up a lot of goals against competent attacking teams.
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wow, disagree. Great to beat mexico but this seems myopic to me. Robinson, Turner, and Hoppe helped cause. Don't agree on any of the others and would put an asterisk on Hoppe as not convinced he will be effective against better competition. I'm not an Acosta fan and the rest of those midfielders gave the ball away way too much including Busio against weak competition. Even last night, the lack of composure throughout the team was evident. Dike hurt his cause in my view especially after he hurt himself flinging himself to the ground. This team was second best last night and really never showed they were better than the other teams they played in this tournament.
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I think most of this is over-reaction. This team barely got by some second tier teams. Loved to see the fight in the team last night but, at least on the attacking side, Mexico was far better. Hoppe has a ton of energy but really unrefined - not convinced on elite. Acosta and Turner are both terrifying on the ball - great defense but Turner nearly gave the ball away in the goal box early on and Acosta gives it away in midfield way too frequently. Robinson looked good.
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I finally figured out as this olympics why the swimming is the only watchable event for me. Swimming has heats in the morning and finals in the evening (reversed this year) so when you watch a session, it's all finals or at least semi-finals. For track, they seem to mix the heats with the finals so in a three hours session, there is like one or two finals and 37 heats of various events. Combined with six minutes of commercials between 20 second races, it's just not watchable. The commercials in every other event in the middle of competition make things pretty unwatchable. Overall terrible job by NBC, who also seem to want to insert ridiculous stupid pieces into the middle of events.
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https://www.espn.com/soccer/chelsea-engchelsea/story/4444258/chelseas-christian-pulisic-open-to-new-defensive-switch-thomas-tuchel
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Alexi Lalas had them something like this last night (cant remember the exact order of Panama and El Salvador, but certain about the other placings): 1. USA 2. Mexico 3. Canada 4. Honduras 5. Jamaica 6. El Salvador 7. Panama 8. Costa Rica Rating them is all well and good but 1 and 2 are pretty much neck and neck, then there's a gap to 3, and then a huge gap to 4.
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sort of - no hirving lozano and a couple others that are at olympics.
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After reading this, I did not expect the completely dominant first 75 minutes (I didn't watch the rest) by the USWNT. They looked back to normal to me.
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frankly, penalty takers should need to think less. 80% of these men and women can drill the ball top corner at will until the pressure is on and they start worrying about what the keeper is doing etc. Honestly, how often do you think a top player misses from that spot with no defenders in front of them in the run of play? Rapinoe's is the perfect example. ice.
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huge win. netherlands had looked like the best team by far
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agreed. regardless of result, I think Berhalter got exactly what he wanted out of this tournament.
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Gotta think Hoppe has helped himself more than any other player than Turner? Busio has shown some flashes but looks like he needs development to play with the first team.
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How do you feel about 15? omg, I can't believe the Mexican fans were doing a homophobic chant?! How can it be that the same slap on the wrist keeps having no impact?
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what do we get back? I mean, it's gross, but do we get something good at least (yes, I know we don't know)
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hard to be super optimistic the way they've played, but also hard to predict. I want to believe this US team is better than El Salvador.
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that pretty well sums up why I don't like sports with judges assigning scores. the mens 100m free did not let down - hard to believe it was a whole .06 difference - seemed closer