The pray for Qualification thread

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:54 pm

azgreg wrote:What do we expect tonight?

Im not really sure anyone knows what to expect...

Arena's two friendlies a bit ago looked pretty poor. We will see.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:36 pm

Yeah I wasn't expecting this first half

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:26 pm

They seem rather aggressive tonight.

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:39 pm

legallykenny wrote:
azgreg wrote:Who's surprised Dempsey is on the squad?
There's only two other forwards in the program who can actually score and one of them spends half of his national team time getting injured. You simply can't count on Jozy playing two games.

Only thing that actually matters is whether Bruce will start Pulisic.

This was probably not the most challenging prediction ever made.
Every skilled American teenager needs to go to Germany or the Netherlands to play. We should Bender let another kid go to England.

And LOL at Stu and Landon saying in every indirect way possible that the tram despised JK. I think the entire squad just took a dump on his corpse.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:34 pm

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:00 pm

Not impressed with this lineup at all. Pulisic is damn good

TucsonClip · Post by **TucsonClip** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:04 pm

Ream and Zusi starting in the back 4 is... awful. Injuries really killing us, but Pulisic is freaking amazing.

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:00 pm

TucsonClip wrote:Ream and Zusi starting in the back 4 is... awful. Injuries really killing us, but Pulisic is freaking amazing.

That back 4 was horrendous tonight. Very luck to get a point.

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:39 pm

Watching US-Venezuela a few hours after RM-Juventus was, uh, painful. I'm not sure they're even playing the same sport.

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Thu Jun 08, 2017 8:42 pm

Pulisic looked good. Mexico up next

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 4:38 pm

How bad do we get our ass kicked here?

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 5:38 pm

GOOOOOOAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 5:44 pm

What a kick by Bradley!

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 11:17 pm

Bruce tinkers with the lineups like Jurgy did. The difference is that the players know what's expected of them come game time because they've practiced it. I had my doubts about that roster, but it came through, even the carcass of DMB.

qwertyus · Post by **qwertyus** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:13 am

MrBug708 wrote:Bruce tinkers with the lineups like Jurgy did. The difference is that the players know what's expected of them come game time because they've practiced it. I had my doubts about that roster, but it came through, even the carcass of DMB.

QFT. Bruce prepped the team for weeks in camp, even going so far as getting the MLS guys released early, so they could spend more time together. Unlike Jurgen's 3/5-man backline experiment against Mexico (remember, JK used a similar formation in Columbus), Bruce put together a smart, reasonable gameplan. He's got the guys back, focused on fundamentals, with defense seemingly priority number one. Which, I don't mind necessarily considering our mediocre forwards, and our surplus of talented CB's.

Hopefully we'll see some players emerge from the Gold Cup. I've always been a big fan of Dom Dwyer, ever since his first season with KC, and there are a couple of others that I think could be good contributors or competition for starting/sub roles on the WC 23-man squad.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:21 pm

Not getting clear penalty calls at home...that's US Soccer!

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:29 pm

We might think about subbing Tim Ream at the half

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:58 pm

SCCats wrote:We might think about subbing Tim Ream at the half

Starting random shit Euro league player of the week over Besler is the kind of thing that got Klinsi fired. How in the world did Arena make the same mistake?

More importantly though, how is Brooks always out injured?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:55 pm

Costa Rica has 3-4 good players and 1 of them didn't play and still won on the road 2-0. That's US Soccer for ya!

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:34 pm

What's this I hear about Russia using North Korea slave labor for building their stadiums?

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:09 am

This is not going to be a pleasant day for Christian Pulisic.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:09 pm

lol well it will be marginally funny to see Bruce fired this early on in his second tenure

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:03 pm

Well escaped with a point

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 8:02 pm

qwertyus · Post by **qwertyus** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:52 am

I'm going to flip out if Bruce decides to start Zusi or Beasley in important games ever again. Yedlin's healthy, so that takes care of Zusi, and I just pray Fabian gets moved back, or Villafana starts at LB instead. Just ridiculous. Honduras looked like Spain out there, and Zusi was beaten off the dribble all day by a Honduran winger who was just waiting at the halfway line to burn him every time. Just atrocious. If Honduras were any good at finishing, we're losing 3-0. Thank god Bobby saved our bacon with a scrappy goal at the death.

And FFS, the announcers and most of the press, so soft on this team. "Oh, we'll take the point!" "Honduras is tough!" "Crowd support against Costa Rica wasn't good! Boo hoo!".

Glad Alexi called them out. They're on the cusp of abject failure, it's time they play with a little fire instead of coasting like they clearly were on that winning streak. Back to reality boys, time to get wins.

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:21 pm

If only there were an excellent possession midfielder who had played WC and WCQ games next to Michael Bradley somewhere toiling away in MLS. Where or where could we find such a player?
Bonus points if he has a reputation for reaming out under performing teammates.

qwertyus · Post by **qwertyus** » Mon Sep 25, 2017 4:20 pm

legallykenny wrote:If only there were an excellent possession midfielder who had played WC and WCQ games next to Michael Bradley somewhere toiling away in MLS. Where or where could we find such a player?
Bonus points if he has a reputation for reaming out under performing teammates.

I can't tell if you're talking about Jermaine Jones, or Benny Feilhaber, or who...

This team dearly misses the take-no-prisoners bruiser that was Jermaine Jones for over a cycle. Danny Williams would've been the most obvious like-for-like, but not only has he been passed up for shitty MLS guys, he's gotten himself injured just before WCQ, so he's unavailable anyway. Doubt Bruce would've called him in regardless, but now he's got an excuse...

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:44 pm

qwertyus wrote:
legallykenny wrote:If only there were an excellent possession midfielder who had played WC and WCQ games next to Michael Bradley somewhere toiling away in MLS. Where or where could we find such a player?
Bonus points if he has a reputation for reaming out under performing teammates.
I can't tell if you're talking about Jermaine Jones, or Benny Feilhaber, or who...

This team dearly misses the take-no-prisoners bruiser that was Jermaine Jones for over a cycle. Danny Williams would've been the most obvious like-for-like, but not only has he been passed up for shitty MLS guys, he's gotten himself injured just before WCQ, so he's unavailable anyway. Doubt Bruce would've called him in regardless, but now he's got an excuse...

Benny. Jones is 18 months past being done.

TheBlackLodge · Post by **TheBlackLodge** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:01 pm

Lineup definitely skews towards attack, curious to see how much Panama parks the bus on us.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:22 pm

So here we are...at the cosmo, praying for qualification.

At least I'm in my holy city for this prayer session.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:30 pm

Omar Gonzales?

I wouldn't bet my legacy on him, but ok.

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:32 pm

SCCats wrote:So here we are...at the cosmo, praying for qualification.

At least I'm in my holy city for this prayer session.

I actually want these fuckers to have to go to Syria to qualify. Would be well deserved after the half-assed shit show performances they've put out there this cycle.

How's the Cosmo? I was surprised by how normal the Venetian and Wynn were when I was there Monday night.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:36 pm

legallykenny wrote:
SCCats wrote:So here we are...at the cosmo, praying for qualification.

At least I'm in my holy city for this prayer session.
I actually want these fuckers to have to go to Syria to qualify. Would be well deserved after the half-assed shit show performances they've put out there this cycle.

How's the Cosmo? I was surprised by how normal the Venetian and Wynn were when I was there Monday night.

Yeah totally normal here.

And I'm honestly not sure we could, in good conscience, send a team to Syria (Latakia?) to play a football match.

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:45 pm

Holy shit.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:47 pm

I wondered this summer if some team would look smart four or five years from now trying to snap up Pulisic for 40M or so.

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:48 pm

Impressive goal. I hope he stays in Germany forever

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:57 pm

Very very nice

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:23 pm

Couldn't ask for a better first half.

TucsonClip · Post by **TucsonClip** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:25 pm

Thankfully we are finishing, because we easily could have conceded a few.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:05 pm

The center of the American backline

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:29 pm

The whole middle of the field is crap

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:41 pm

We are in big trouble

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:43 pm

MrBug708 wrote:We are in big trouble

We're toast. We now need results from others.

shimdic · Post by **shimdic** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:47 pm

This is beyond pathetic.

phenom5 · Post by **phenom5** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:57 pm

Is there a good breakdown on qualifying? Or are we just fuct?

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:59 pm

Win and we move on. If Honduras and Panama both lose, which they are, we move on. If we the, we are going to the playoff. Then it gets murkier based on other teams

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:06 pm

phenom5 wrote:Is there a good breakdown on qualifying? Or are we just fuct?

Need Mexico to beat or tie Honduras AND Costa Rica to beat or tie Panama

If only one of those two happen, it's into a playoff

phenom5 · Post by **phenom5** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:14 pm

Thanks guys

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:48 pm

And we are out

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:56 pm

Hopefully Sunil goes with Bruce

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