Apologies if I didn’t sound the best in this video, currently dealing with an illness. Thanks for sticking with us through this horrible period for the USMNT! -Braden
Agree on the Fossey rating - some of the other commentators were dismissive of his performance, but I thought he played a rather smart game. Overlapping, covering center backs, etc. Somewhat raw, but potential there. This camp really called into question the mental and emotional resilience of many players that have been touted as our "Golden Generation." Hopefully Pochettino won't coddle them, and he'll be ruthless in leaving some "name" players at home during call ups. As fans we need to be patient when some of our favorites are left at home in order to prove a point and create some motivation.
Exactly, I know that I personally (Braden) will trust Pochettino’s judgment when he picks his first roster, even if he picks some names that I wouldn’t have.
This was a very disappointing camp. At times, our players did not even look like professionals. As far as the CBs are concerned, McKenzie did look better than Richards. But, neither of them looked good enough. I don't see anyone else in the wings that might be ready by 2026. Seeing how we have a logjam at 6, I would actually be open to Tessman and Maloney at CB. They can't be any worse, and it might give them an opportunity to play at the WC. The only players that looked decent this camp were Fosey, Morris and Shulte. Don't get me wrong, they did not look like MNT starters, but they definitely earned another look.
I’m definitely open to trying Maloney at CB, not sure about Tessmann though, I don’t think it fits his style. We need some answers, I think it’s time to give players like Dietz and Banks a chance.
Will I told y’all that Luca would show you he belongs. I think pulisic is just bad social to do the same thing and I do care it just comes across different
As a Cincy native and an FCC STH I really wanted to go to this match. The price gouging and lack of a quality team turned me off of it. I really hope US Soccer can figure it all out.
Random thought. This window sucked. Yes. But to me it exposed our lack of depth. We were missing gio (our best player imo), jedi, wes and dest (3 of our 5 best players imo when wes is fit) not shocked we struggled. The window did allow our backups to get some time even if they kinda sucked. GK is a PROBLEM and so is the back line. We have some time to fix this. And the embarrassing window gave us 1. Clues to what needs fixing and 2. A kick in the a$$ to fix it asap Pinning all my hopes on poch as the man for the job
Agree with everything you said except for Gio being our best player. I’m very curious to see what new faces Poch tries to bring in to fix our depth problem.
Hopefully Poch can come up with a formation with no CB and no GK. Richards played well for A short stretch last season but not going to be surprised if he loses his starting spot. Leadership council probably prevents new leaders from emerging. Adams seems like a vocal leader to hold people accountable.
Adams and maybe Ream seem like the only guys who are somewhat leaders, could really use someone better to emerge in that category. I have hope that Poch will revamp a lot of the locker room stuff.
Probably the right call to not watch them, at least now we have a direction for the future and that’s nowhere but up! Appreciate your support as always!
This truly is the low point since Cuavo, T&T. Hopefully it’s like an illness and there’s that last bit of gunk yet to be coughed up 😷… and this was the gunk. 🦠. Just a putrid camp. Hats off to Aidan Morris for being the one who took advantage of his opportunity. Fossey as well. The rest did nothing to earn a next call up…. Doesn’t mean many of these shouldn’t be called up, just saying only two guys really stepped up and gave quality effort. Please let October be better 🙏🏽
that goal is not matt turners fault AT ALL. you cant expect the keeper not to come out when his teammate is going for a header back to him. it was bad defensive communication, and a really bad header from caleb.
Turner absolutely deserves some of the blame, although I agree it’s mainly on Wiley. You said it was bad defensive communication, which is true, but one of a goalkeeper’s jobs is to command their back line and communicate with them.
@@AMERICANULTRASTALK the bad communication is obviously between the center backs in this scenario. Horrible wiley header + wild deflection. That’s pretty hard to command.
@@AMERICANULTRASTALK I will say though, turner did hesitate coming farther off his line though. He definitely lacks the decision making we need in a keeper. I want him out too. Im really hoping schulte can get the starting spot. I really like him
That’s the thing, he put himself in no man’s land. He came out halfway then seemed to doubt himself, that’s the worst possible position to be in. He needed to 100% commit to either coming out or staying put.
With Poch now the US manager, I think we should expect a minimum standard of play: no goals conceded from now on and at least 5 goals scored per match. I would be satisfied with that. ;)
Now with college football back on and with these latest results I probably won’t tune in until 2026 but solid job guys wish you all the best! USMNT doesn’t deserve people like you
I will disagree on this one. Musa has been getting "second half, down by 2" minutes at ACM. By that time the opposition is bunkering and giving up real estate, so he does not have much opposition driving the ball to the box. In this camp, both opponents played high pressure to start with, and he has not been very good against it. He has just been lucky that neither team scored off his turnovers.
How dumb can you show you are. These ratings are for the usa vs new Zealand match. AC milan didnt play. what in the world are you talking about. Musah was horrible in this window. IDGAF what hes did last year at milan.and these ratings dont either.. you should watch the matches instead of just reading press clippings if your gonna comment imo.
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