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We're camping at the Bristol campground. Weekend site (with power) was only $160. Between the Friday concert and Saturday tailgates/game, the convenience of the tent outweighs the comfort of a hotel 20-40 min away.
That would also excite me, if it were the case. You may continue with that if you wish, I won't blame you.
Just so you know, it's "Man of the Match".
Wil Montgomery on recentness and NFL experience. Duane Brown. (Not discounting Jim and Jake, just putting some additional ideas out there).
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this is a thread for haikus
you disappoint me
2 MOTM awards
I don't know what MOTM awards are but I immediately filled it in as "Man On The Moon" in my head and it sounded good so I went with it
Even if we are gunning at full strength, we still get housed last night. 0 shots on goal, and Argentina was barely breaking a sweat. This was every bit the laugher your typical US basketball vs insert Caribbean island nation here game turns into. We come at them in top form and the score easily could have been uglier with them actually kicking it into high gear.
Mexico housed 7-0. US stomped 4-0. That right there is all you need to know about CONCACAF vs the rest of the world. Good chance we rarely if ever make the World Cup if not for CONCACAF.
I know I'll never see a cake or sky
As lovely as I'll gaze a pie
98.5%. That was Mesut Ozil's completion rate for passing in the last game. Add that to Ramsey's dominance and Granit Xhaka's proficiency (2 MOTM awards for Switzerland) and this Arsenal fan is having a good time with these Euros.
Timmy has lost more than a step in the past couple years. There were a few saves Guzan made this tournament that I'm not sure Tim could have managed at this stage.
3 Campers/RV's and 2 Tents at Shadrack. Apparently its next door to a brewery which should be fun to check out Friday.
I have a feeling a lot will be "camping out" when the game ends at 12:30 and it takes an hour to find/walk to your car and 2 hours to get out of the parking lot. Race venues are always a blast to navigate!
America always has a 1776% chance of winning when we step on the field.
Did anybody else feel like they were watching a Hokie football big game tonight? Damn that was a tough one. I wish we would have played better. Dempsey cant do much with out the ball though. Messi is a beast. I think US soccer is on the cusp of being really great soon. Merica'
ronaldo cant do it alone, hes surrounded by some very average players. Especially because they're egotistical as all get out
Problem with that theory is when jones and wood are suspended. The good news is we have some really promising prospects in the center of the pitch in zelalem. That being said I thought zardes looked ok today and thats good for him, the guy had his moments at this tournament. Will he be a superstar? Probably not, but could he be a solid contributor for a while? Sure
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Agree with much of what you said.
But we played without 2 of our best middle of the field players against the #1 team in the World tonight. Bedoya is also an improvement over whomever was playing his spot. Our depth sucks... but we have more and more kids playing in European leagues... the depth is gonna come back. We need to keep the old guys for the next WC ... Demps, Bradley, Jones... while finding their replacements for the one after that.
So I hear you. But I think in a pristine best 11 game... it is a closer contest.
Too bad Donovan is such a panzy he couldn't still be playing and is instead ruining the play by play. Gonna be difficult to replace these guys. Our young guys have a few years to get better.... has to happen quickly.
there were 4 guys there rushing messi... just needed one to cover levezzi
Becks could have gotten there just didn't seem like he wanted to be bothered
We only have a few guys competent in the midfield and I worry the German doesn't know who they are.
Woods, Dempsey, Bradley, Jones are the only guys I'd put in the middle of the field responsibilities... they should form a triangle dot (wood) as a base formation somewhere on the middle pitch... I think Pulisic and Nagbe show some skill ability to play in the middle with those guys. Everyone else needs to play off the guys in the middle and or pinch in when required. When Demps doesnt' get the ball much and Jones is out... this is a very bad team. The midfield just cannot slow the game down.
We are on the precipice it seems just can't figure if it is of greatness or dismal failure. Thank the lord Jones got back into shape.
against TT or similar competition sure... but may be time to let the young strikers loose... or on a night like this if we got noone else unleash your highest workrate defender on the Arg defense and see if he can pop a few balls loose.
He was trying to make up for his 10 year old fat kid touch (one of many on the night). Better to just take your medicine than him try and take Messi on from a terribly disadvantaged angle.
MLS is not world class international. I love the guy, but just not at the ARG level.
FWIW, I agree... he should have gotten that one.
I would kill my keeper for playing that far off his line... if you got no vert ... you gotta play a step or two deeper.
TimH gets that one.
I don't agree with your last statement. I think it's an over-reaction to two bad games by two teams, who were matched up against two clearly better teams.
3 out of 4 qualified CONCACAF teams made it through to the knockouts in the last World Cup, and one made it to the quarter finals. 5 out of 6 CONMEBOL got to the knockouts. I think your statement would be far more accurate if you said "CONCACAF isn't as good as CONMEBOL". When you look at the world-wide landscape though, we're not really as bad as you think.