⚽⚽⚽Official 2026 World Cup Thread⚽⚽⚽

Feb 25, 2008
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Ream is apparently learning the same thing I told my kids at about 8. You simply cannot give a forward 5 feet of space when they are directly in front of your goal. WtAF is happening?
Didn't see the first goal live, but both times we're the ones acting like the outmatched, under-talented team of defenders just watching the balls float into space until it's too late, and that includes Freese in goal..........

No effort to be proactive and anticipate and it's not like Belgium is doing anything with the ball extraordinary where there was nothing the U.S. could do to defend. We're simply just being egregiously reactionary to everything Belgium does, which is what U.S. soccer has ALWAYS done as the importance of games gets higher and higher and the quality of the opponent improves, even though that doesn't necessarily have any correlation to us being more or less proactive vs reactive.............

Just sayin.
 

QChawks

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Looney Tunes Nothing To See Here GIF
 

noleclone2

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May 3, 2015
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Look, I know we were never going to win it all but I had hoped the game we lost would not be one of looking like one of our poorest efforts in World Cup history. This is truly awful.
 

EdgarAllenPodolak

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Yeah, it’s not athletic ability. Freese has tons. Why don’t we have any goalkeepers with an IQ over 100 anymore? We once had Meola, Howard, Keller, and Friedel.
 
Feb 25, 2008
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You're confusing lack of athletic ability with freezing and choking. That was comparable yo Chris Webber calling a timeout that he didn't have.
But that's what our U.S. soccer "athletes" all do in every World Cup.............I don't think getting more American athletes who would've otherwise been elite football players would make a difference.
 

BlIIlken2

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This tournament is 100% a failure for the USNMT. Nothing was accomplished. We didn’t move any further than we have before. Only 2 wins in a weak expanded group play. On home soil and zero was accomplished with the golden generation. Back to the basement of world soccer we go.

(Assuming we lost)