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FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:59 am

USMNT roster for September friendlies. We have 2 matches left before the November World Cup (Japan, Saudi Arabia).

GOALKEEPERS (3)

Ethan Horvath - Luton Town
Sean Johnson - New York City FC
Matt Turner - Arsenal

DEFENDERS (9)

Reggie Cannon - Boavista
Cameron Carter-Vickers - Celtic
Sergiño Dest - AC Milan
Aaron Long - New York Red Bulls
Chris Richards - Crystal Palace
Joe Scally - Borussia Mönchengladbach
Sam Vines - Royal Antwerp
DeAndre Yedlin - Inter Miami CF
Walker Zimmerman - Nashville SC

MIDFIELDERS (6)

Kellyn Acosta - LAFC
Tyler Adams - Leeds United
Luca de la Torre - Celta de Vigo
Weston McKennie - Juventus
Yunus Musah - Valencia
Malik Tillman - Rangers

FORWARDS (8)

Brenden Aaronson - Leeds United
Paul Arriola - FC Dallas
Jesús Ferreira - FC Dallas
Jordan Morris - Seattle Sounders FC
Ricardo Pepi - Groningen
Christian Pulisic - Chelsea
Gio Reyna - Borussia Dortmund
Josh Sargent - Norwich City

Jedi and Weah are injured. Steffen is coming back from an injury. But he has been playing bad for the last 4 months.

Here is my choice for World Cup starters, assuming Berhalter plays a 4-3-3.

Goalkeeper - Matt Turner

Center Backs - Walker Zimmerman, Chris Richards

Wing Backs - Sergino Dest, Antonee "Jedi" Robinson

Midfielders - Tyler Adams, Yunus Musah, Weston McKennie

Forwards - Christian Pulisic, Gio Reyna Although I don't have a problem starting Aaronson or Weah.

Striker: Josh Sargeant He learned how to score. Although I believe Berhalter will play Ferreira.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 3:31 am

Let’s go USA. Might be the most important match in the Group as Iran is considered the weakest and England the strongest. US and Wales should be fighting for the coveted 2nd place to get you out of the group.

Wales will play more of a counter attack game based on their history. For the US there are two areas of the starting line up that will be interesting to see what Berhalter does:

Up Front- I’m thinking it will be Pulisic, Weah and Ferreira but Reyna could easily start because of his ability to create in tight spaces.

Center back alongside Zimmerman - between Ream, Carter-Vickers and Long. I think it will be Ream because of his excellent form with Fulham but wouldn’t be shocked to see Long start as he provides pace to keep up with Wales speedy frontline.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:47 am

Starting lineup is Turner, Robinson, Dest, Zimmerman, Ream, Adams, MeKennie, Musah, Pulisic, Weah, and Sargeant.

I don't have a problem with this starting lineup. Ream seems to be in the best form he's been in awhile. Our center backs are our weakpoint. Adams is a stud and the best player on the team. The midfield and forwards are very good. The fact that Aaronson and Reyna aren't starting says a lot.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:55 am

Game time. The game is on Fox

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:16 pm

2 yellow cards in the first 15 minutes. One on Dest and one on McKennie.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:20 pm

The refs do not want the US to win.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:37 pm

Yes!!!!

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:38 pm

Pulisic great pass to Weah for the goal.

AzCatFan2 · Post by **AzCatFan2** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:59 pm

Beautiful goal. Sargent with holdup play springing Pulisic, who puts a perfect weighted ball to Weah, who finishes with confidence. 45 min to go.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:17 pm

US seems to be standing around more in the second half. They don't seem to have any energy.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:26 pm

Nice save

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:35 pm

The subs are bad. There were better choices.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:41 pm

I knew it. You could see this coming.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:42 pm

Oh shit

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:43 pm

The US was playing not to lose all second half.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:43 pm

Tie game...let's see what we got

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:45 pm

Giving this game away. What a shame.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:51 pm

What is bad is the US is a much better team. I blame this on Berhalter.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:54 pm

Wales has had so many injuries, how will they field a team next game?

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:55 pm

Players are cramping all over the place.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:59 pm

I don't know jack shit about soccer- but is a player required to go down in agony on every possession?

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:01 pm

Acosta saved the loss.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:02 pm

England up next. Looks like it is going to come down to the Iran game, again.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:02 pm

No ot?

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:03 pm

84Cat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:02 pmNo ot?

Not in group stage.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:05 pm

Catintheheat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:03 pm
84Cat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:02 pmNo ot?
Not in group stage.

Well, that was an unsatisfactory result. Hopefully we have a little more fire in our belly next game

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:10 pm

Giving up that PK was just a killer. No need to do that with Bale having his back to the goal.

We got pushed around in the second half and gave away possession way too often.

Hated the sub choices except for Aronson.

AzCatFan2 · Post by **AzCatFan2** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 3:01 pm

We had them. But youth and inexperience got us in the end. We were the better team, but let Wales off the hook. At least we managed a point.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:35 am

Wtf Messi?

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:12 pm

legallykenny · Post by **legallykenny** » Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:43 am

This USMNT is like Sean Miller’s teams. Good enough players that they are more focused on their pro club teams but not actually good enough that they deserve to do so.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:48 am

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:32 am

Wales couldn’t hang of for one more minute?

Shitbags.

Oh well.

AzCatFan2 · Post by **AzCatFan2** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:42 am

Iran winning is a good result for the US. A tie would've been better, but now, assuming England takes care of Wales, all we need to do to advance is beat Iran. We could lose by 10 today and still advance if we beat Iran and England either ties or beats Wales.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:51 am

AzCatFan2 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:42 am Iran winning is a good result for the US. A tie would've been better, but now, assuming England takes care of Wales, all we need to do to advance is beat Iran. We could lose by 10 today and still advance if we beat Iran and England either ties or beats Wales.

Right. All we need to do is beat Iran in a game where Iran will know all it needs is a draw to advance.

If Wales hangs on, all we might’ve needed was a draw against Iran to go through (even when we lose to England).

Those two things are totally different, particularly in the context of (and I get transitive property isn’t necessarily a thing one game to another) Iran was significantly better than Wales, so the expectation of Win v draw there will likely be a big, big difference.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:55 am

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:57 am

Christian should probably come off the bench in this one (for a couple reasons), but we’ll probably run him out there for 90 minutes of injuries in our pending lopsided loss.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:12 am

Alieberman wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:59 pm I don't know jack shit about soccer- but is a player required to go down in agony on every possession?

I was flipping through channels on Sling yesterday, and the 5 seconds I saw 2 players were fighting for the ball, then the next thing you know one player goes down like he was just shot with a bean bag gun. Surprised he wasn't carted off on a stretcher.

Flop rules really need to be enforced in all sports.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:04 am

As another funny subplot to tonight’s game, as far as I can tell, a draw basically has no value to us; we would still need to win against Iran.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:34 pm

Pulisic hits the crossbar. US playing with more confidence.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:57 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:38 pm

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:48 am

Ball don’t lie situation in Poland Saudi

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 1:43 pm

Well that had to go down as one of the worst subs in the group stage.

Alejandro Balde. Sorry, kid, but welcome to the game.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:00 pm

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:14 pm

Vickers and Ream gonna take us to the promised land!!!

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:24 pm

Need to get that final pass in for a score.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:29 pm

I feel like I’ve seen this game a million times.

5 min goes by, nothing happens. 5 min goes by, nothing happens.

Finally we realise it’s the 70th minute and put the pedal to the metal…and Iran sees out the game.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:40 pm

Goal! Now let's get another and put this game away

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