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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I didn't see the Cuba game or the Jamaica one so fair enough in terms of what you say about how they played in those, and in seeing an overall improvement. I obviously can't comment there. Thing is the few games I have seen, some I've really enjoyed some I haven't, but they've all felt like experiments. And as you say in terms of Costa Rica, national teams benefit from cohesion, especially when they lack great individual talents.
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to my eyes this is all that's missing at this point. though central defense is weak--alvarado the weakest link this time around-- that can be fixed with a substitution. he left out matt besler and geoff cameron to give this 22 year old a try. maybe he got cocky thinking winning this was going to be easy and he could toy around.
but it's not that they don't defend-- they defend well thoughout the pitch-- they press high and don't wait in the back. that's a lot of progress for this team who used to only defend by sitting back and rely on keeper miracles.
but these two goals were just fuckups. read the guardian's live blog of it, it's pretty good, including their recognition of jamaica's stength, which alexi lalas missed. it's not 1990, alexi...
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...a-jamaica-live
and guzan, yeah, hm... howard is ready to return
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Cuba sucks that game isn't important.. the Jamaican loss was indeed stupid mistakes and if it qere really just one bad game itd be no big deal..
But this is part of pattern. Now i agree with !@#$! if Klinsmann stops all the tinkering then they can finally build on improvements.. THAT is precisely what i meant by identity
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right... let's keep the definitions tight and avoid confusion and semantic overlap though. all klinsmann needs at this point is to consolidate his roster. a stable team that practices together more.
well, too late for that actually-- world cup is 3 years away and a lot will happen. he needed a consistent team *for this tournament*. world cup will be different. so experimentation will need to happen again, ha ha ha.
oh, now they're trying to make a big deal out of the confederations cup-- so okay, get ready for that, and try for that, with one core team and substitutes that practice consistenly. then hel have 2 more years for wildcards.
the list of recent callups is massive. these are teh people who did not make it into the knockout round squad-- the current squad is listed above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ent_ call-ups
plus one with howard who hasnt played in the last 12 months but is officially lurking
now compare that to the recent german callups lololol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...ecent_call-ups
(they're resting some starters and playing some experiments... but they're all well-known players)
i understand klinsi's desire to cast a wide net and mine new talent but to win you need focus.
bufo alvarius amen.