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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i have more criticism towards colombia who had the superior players and had to struggle so much to score. i thought their defense was rather meh. usa got a free penalty since armero was pushed and was spared a penalty for jj's handball. so it would have been 4-0 if judged correctly.
most entertaining moment of the game for me was hearing the colombian fans rudely chant "hijo de puta, hijo de puta" near the end of the first half.
usa appeared really in shambles but let's be honest, most of the players are all a bunch of 2nd and 3rd raters. i did like yedlin, guzan & bedoya today. heard that yedlin is going to the premier league to that's really good for him-- hope they train him well. (meanwhile, mls owners bitching about klinsmann's lack of respect for mls. but seriously, fuck the mls.)
maybe the disconnect from midfields to forwards had to do with having jj as a centerback today? wtf. maybe klinsmann has been smoking pep's drugs. also, i keep hearing about the famous diskkerud but all i noticed was he looked like a musketeer--otherwise nothing.
next week usa vs ireland. that should be a more even match (no offense to ireland but they are no colombia).
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Colombia weren't great but it was a difficult game for them to look good in. for all the criticisms of the USA, we know they pack the defence. On another day Colombia might've taken their chances but we regularly see superior sides struggle in games like that.
I completely agree with you about the Klinsmann debacle but he can't treat the national team like it's a separate entity from the league. A national coach's role is a political one as much as it is a purely footballing one. If he sees it as anything else he should've managed a league team. And for me, he hasn't shown much signs of actually improving the national side anyway, even with his weird re-nationalised Germans. They're still the same fairly hard to beat but ultimately quite pedestrian team they've always been.
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
It was a friendly. Lets not make too much about it for either side
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True but some friendlies feel like friendlies while some feel like competitive matches. This one definitely felt more like the latter.