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sigma_dawg

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L4Dawg said:
Belgium is more than an average European team. They are ranked 9th in the world. Argentina isn’t #1 either. That would be France. Argentina is either 2nd or 3rd.
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You are incorrect. #1 Argentina, #2 Spain, #3 France, #4 England, #5 Brazil… according to FIFA world rankings
 
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I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure a play like that should absolutely never happen at this level of the sport. Good lord.
 
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Goalkeeper has been a big concern for a while. We’ve never been this poor at keeper. That was just embarrassing.
 
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Well, it was a fun run...
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I actually thought we had improved more than this. i was fooled by the opposition we had been playing. The WC really has been watered down. One observation own our best player, Pulisic….tonight is a perfect example of why I don‘t rate him. I hope the Liverpool rumors are untrue. I expect they aren’t.
 
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Yep - goalie and back line were the concerns and they made some really really poor plays in this game

keeper coming out was fine - kicking the ground instead of the ball was just embarrassingly bad
 
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I had a feeling watching Ream and Richards pushed so far forward that we were gonna surrender an easy one before we scored one. Wish I had been wrong.
 
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FlotownDawg said:
Goalkeeper has been a big concern for a while. We’ve never been this poor at keeper. That was just embarrassing.
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Man I remember the good old days when we had good premier league goalkeepers who could get on the field because there was a better premier league goalkeeper ahead of them. Now we’ve got goalkeepers who might not start for Gaffa FC. That’s a slight exaggeration. Slight.
 
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Yeah I had hopes we had improved more than what we are showing.

even on offense a lot of sloppy passes and bad touches
 
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Perd Hapley said:
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure a play like that should absolutely never happen at this level of the sport. Good lord.
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You would be correct. That being said it does on occasion. That was a howler. Keepers lose their jobs over that kind of antics.
 
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L4Dawg said:
I actually thought we had improved more than this. i was fooled by the opposition we had been playing. The WC really has been watered down. One observation own our best player, Pulisic….tonight is a perfect example of why I don‘t rate him. I hope the Liverpool rumors are untrue. I expect they are.
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Pulisic better stay in Italy. England, Spain or even German leagues would eat him up.
 
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You would be correct. That being said it does on occasion. That was a howler. Keepers lose their jobs over that kind of antics.
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It was either him or Turner. That’s a lose-lose proposition.
 
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We are getting our a**es handed to us by a country that has a population equal to the state of Georgia. All the cheating over Folarin and he has been a complete non issue. 🤮🤮
 
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patdog said:
Man I remember the good old days when we had good premier league goalkeepers who could get on the field because there was a better premier league goalkeeper ahead of them. Now we’ve got goalkeepers who might not start for Gaffa FC. That’s a slight exaggeration. Slight.
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There used to be American goalkeepers all over the Premier League. Kasey Keller, Brad Freidel, Tim Howard, Brad Guzan, Marcus Hanneman were all Premier League starters. Now our keepers couldn’t sniff Europe.
 
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Pulisic can be a nifty dribbler against lesser competition, but he got seriously exposed tonight as simply overrated. Completely ineffective.
 
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patdog said:
Man I remember the good old days when we had good premier league goalkeepers who could get on the field because there was a better premier league goalkeeper ahead of them. Now we’ve got goalkeepers who might not start for Gaffa FC. That’s a slight exaggeration. Slight.
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Yeah, the problem then is everybody else was in MLS or worse. we have improved on that front, some.
 
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I thought we’d probably lose this one, I just hate we’ve looked this poor doing it.

Poch is probably writing his resignation email. He’s trying to win with a defense that rivals our past few football defenses
 
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