USMNT Slovakia squad

At least give him a look.

 

Okay, then.. I agree. sorry about the ignorance.
{snark} Sure would beat the hell out of putting Beasley, there.. {/snark}

 

Castillo has good speed and likes to get into the attack.

 

Agree with every word Hatter said. Only thing missing was that I thought Dempsey showed up for the US today. I wish Bradley would have left him in for the full 90.

 

I thought the game was blah for everyone.

Guzan made some nice saves.

 

hahahaha...

what? Butt-load?

 

By the way - this was as boring a match as you are going to see... Fast forward and delete!

 

I want to see EJ do well, but I still got a chuckle out of this e-mail from a friend:

"EJ is wearing #36? Is that his ranking out of the 23 spots?"

 

Also, thoughts on Spector at CB today?

Could Bob being looking at this future backline once DeMerit or Gooch gets back?

Dolo-Spector-DeMerit-Boca

 

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_i ... nmark.html

Castillo (!), Torres, Holden and Clark are called in for the Denmark game.

Dempsey, Dolo and Marshall are sent home.

 

I just want a forward that I have confidence in and who I know is capable of scoring on his own at any moment. Davies was that guy, now who will it be? Altidore? Maybe one day. Dempsey? Not likely for a full 90 minutes.

But with a lot of promising midfielders having good outings in recent games, maybe we can afford to move Dempsey up top for the full 90 and have EJ come off of the bench. Although his performance Saturday wasn't exactly inspring.

I liked Feilhaber and Bradley in the midfield, then if you put Donovan in there and maybe Holden? that sounds like a decent line-up. But what the hell do I know? I just like seeing all of the options we have in these friendlies and Bradley does a decent job at giving different guys a look.

Anybody know what kind of friendlies there will be leading up to the World Cup? I'd like to get our squad set and have at least 4-6 games under our belt together. Is that rediculous to expect? I feel like there will only be a handful of games before the World Cup and that doesn't seem like enough time to gel and form an identity like we did this summer.

Hopefully Wednesdays game can go a long way in settling some battles, or maybe opening them back up....cough left back cough cough.

 

Bearzfan, as for upcoming friendlies, the US is supposed to play the Dutch sometime this spring and I'm sure they'll be a few others scheduled after the World Cup draw next month.

The match was rather bland - possibly contributed to by the economical, half-full "Eastern European" designed stadium; "wieneriffic" is an apt description.

I thought the US created some good build-up and/or chances, but nobody stepped up to finish or make the last, crucial pass. I don't know why EJ looked tentative - maybe he wasn't, but it appeared so. Totally agree that Donovan's absence simply magnified his importance to this squad.

I hope El Bob uses this match as a basis to begin crossing-off names on the 2010 list...as the Honorable Elihu Smails professed: "some people just don't belong."

 

I like Spector in the middle. There's an advantage to having the right sided center back know how to play right back and the left sided center back know how to play left back.

We really missed Donovan.