El Floppo
Footballguy
Dest with a great move down the left, bests his man and puts a perfect cross in to De Jong who forces a great save off the head, followup gets pushed off the post, Tillman smashes home from 2 yards.Tillman goal
Dest with a great move down the left, bests his man and puts a perfect cross in to De Jong who forces a great save off the head, followup gets pushed off the post, Tillman smashes home from 2 yards.Tillman goal
Dest with a great move down the left, bests his man and puts a perfect cross in to De Jong who forces a great save off the head, followup gets pushed off the post, Tillman smashes home from 2 yards.Tillman goal
Just saw the "assist".Pulisic on the bench and Musah with the rare start.
And rewards them with an assist to bring Milan back, down 1-2 now.
Tessmann with a brace for a 2-0 win.Tessmann scored today. Venezia up 1-0 at halftime.
playing time has to be paramount at his age so I think this is a good thing.2006 GK Diego Kochen is no longer sitting the bench watching at Barcelona as he has been promoted (or relegated?) to starting keeper for Barca B. He turned 18 in the last month.
I also saw Ajax was interested in getting Dest back.Anthony Elanga is not yet cleared for Forest this weekend which could mean another start for Gio, in a critical game against Everton
Dest is negotiating with PSV to make his loan permanent.
It might actually be hard for him. Likely way harder or him than pulling an elastico on some chump and torching him to get into the box.Kid needs to learn to play the game a little more diplomatically... It's not that hard.
I don't know what it takes to coach that final ball... I suppose if I knew I'd be doing the coaching.Musah looking like Nagbe 2.0 out there today. Literally embarrassing guys on the dribble in midfield, but can't find an end product to save his life.
I don't know what it takes to coach that final ball... I suppose if I knew I'd be doing the coaching.Musah looking like Nagbe 2.0 out there today. Literally embarrassing guys on the dribble in midfield, but can't find an end product to save his life.
I think soWith Milan getting eliminated yesterday, are all Yanks out of Europe now?
I think a coach out there needs to be practical and stop trying to play Musah as an attacking player. He has the skill to be a very good facsimile of Kante IMO. If he'd get taught to be a box to box ball winner and told to play simple passes I think he could become very very good. I think as long as he's continued to be used as a dribble first playmaker he's always going to be limited.I don't know what it takes to coach that final ball... I suppose if I knew I'd be doing the coaching.Musah looking like Nagbe 2.0 out there today. Literally embarrassing guys on the dribble in midfield, but can't find an end product to save his life.
The bigger picture concern is that Musah has not improved at all in this area since he was 18. Different teams, different leagues and his skill set remains identical to what he was at 18 when he broke in.
Our two most important young players were Musah and Reyna and neither have developed in the ways we would have hoped (you could even argue Reyna has gone backwards at club level).
Both are still going to massively important to the national team program obviously but I had much bigger hopes for these two players specifically.
This is the problem. He's not really a play maker. While he can obviously shuttle the ball from defense to attach, he's not a playmaker.I think as long as he's continued to be used as a dribble first playmaker he's always going to be limited.
Juve have looked so bad the last month plus.Weah starting, McKennie on the bench.
Another oddity is that both Reyna and Weah look better playing for the US than at club level.
Andy mentioned Gio and Musah stagnating or worse in their development. Timmy is right there with them. 3 big guys who could be giants for the US, going backwards for their clubs.
I would agree.Juve have looked so bad the last month plus.Weah starting, McKennie on the bench.
Not that they've looked great this season, but they're even worse lately.
Yeah had an early nice turn and shot he really should've done better with- blasted from close right at the GKs hands (who didn't know anything about it).
Andy mentioned Gio and Musah stagnating or worse in their development. Timmy is right there with them. 3 big guys who could be giants for the US, going backwards for their clubs.
Until he boots the ball into the stands and gets sent off in a meaningful game. Or the US finds a way to limit his clear defensive weaknesses and still have him be filthy on the ball and spring others to score.Dest, on the flip side, has taken that next step
Dest.. he's been great. But tbh, I don't think hes grown as a player. Still doing the same filthy stuff from day one and still not really having to learn how to really defend. Probably not a coincidence he washed out in Italy but gets love in Holland.I would agree.Juve have looked so bad the last month plus.Weah starting, McKennie on the bench.
Not that they've looked great this season, but they're even worse lately.
Yeah had an early nice turn and shot he really should've done better with- blasted from close right at the GKs hands (who didn't know anything about it).
Andy mentioned Gio and Musah stagnating or worse in their development. Timmy is right there with them. 3 big guys who could be giants for the US, going backwards for their clubs.
The only silver lining is, I look at Pulisic and McKennie, and it's not as if it's too late.
And Dest, on the flip side, has taken that next step.
So, let's just hope.
Refresh my memory about what happened back then and why he stepped away?This is hard to watch. Meola breaks down during a CBS interview
I don't know. From what little I can gather from the interview he had family problems.Refresh my memory about what happened back then and why he stepped away?This is hard to watch. Meola breaks down during a CBS interview
The biggest thing for Dest this year is it is clear he can play offensively on both sides of the field now. This means that we now finally have cover for Jedi.Dest.. he's been great. But tbh, I don't think hes grown as a player. Still doing the same filthy stuff from day one and still not really having to learn how to really defend. Probably not a coincidence he washed out in Italy but gets love in Holland.I would agree.Juve have looked so bad the last month plus.Weah starting, McKennie on the bench.
Not that they've looked great this season, but they're even worse lately.
Yeah had an early nice turn and shot he really should've done better with- blasted from close right at the GKs hands (who didn't know anything about it).
Andy mentioned Gio and Musah stagnating or worse in their development. Timmy is right there with them. 3 big guys who could be giants for the US, going backwards for their clubs.
The only silver lining is, I look at Pulisic and McKennie, and it's not as if it's too late.
And Dest, on the flip side, has taken that next step.
So, let's just hope.
I think this is recency bias. He's definitely in a dip in form for both club and country, but he was actually quite good vs Canada last year in the NL final.The biggest thing for Dest this year is it is clear he can play offensively on both sides of the field now. This means that we now finally have cover for Jedi.Dest.. he's been great. But tbh, I don't think hes grown as a player. Still doing the same filthy stuff from day one and still not really having to learn how to really defend. Probably not a coincidence he washed out in Italy but gets love in Holland.I would agree.Juve have looked so bad the last month plus.Weah starting, McKennie on the bench.
Not that they've looked great this season, but they're even worse lately.
Yeah had an early nice turn and shot he really should've done better with- blasted from close right at the GKs hands (who didn't know anything about it).
Andy mentioned Gio and Musah stagnating or worse in their development. Timmy is right there with them. 3 big guys who could be giants for the US, going backwards for their clubs.
The only silver lining is, I look at Pulisic and McKennie, and it's not as if it's too late.
And Dest, on the flip side, has taken that next step.
So, let's just hope.
In an ironic flip, the team is now lacking depth at RB instead of our perennial LB depth issues. Scally has not been able to produce much at all when given his chances at rb.
This sucks for him. I'd like to see what he can do as a CB for us but he hasn't been back since that first call up so it seems like it's pretty unlikely that he would be called for Copa.Brian Sciaretta
@BrianSciaretta
Lennard Maloney forced out of today’s game for Heidenheim in the 50th minute due to a shoulder injury. Tough news for the #USMNT defensive midfielder
This is impressive on its own with no qualifiers, but there are two worth mentioning.
I've been thinking lately that we really don't talk enough about Tillman. He's in great form at the club level and he's always played solidly for the USMNT as well. For whatever reason, we have lots of guys that are one or the other (club OR USMNT form) and he's one of the few that has been consistent and actually consistently pretty good for both.This is impressive on its own with no qualifiers, but there are two worth mentioning.
1) Gio and Balogun under performed in this area fairly significantly compared to expectations
2) This cut off of top 5 leagues keeps the Netherlands players out of the equation as the 6th ranked league.
That includes the following league goal contributions:
Tillman: 16
Dest: 8
Pepi: 8
Booth bothers: 8
Aaronson: 2