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Retired US Soccer / World Cup Thread (RIP)

Demonbeck said:
Yedlin needs to be our first choice back. I'd like to see him try Alvarado out in LB or RB sometime. Dude sucks in the center, but good Lord he's fast. If he has even a halfway decent cross, it might be worth it.
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Do we really need another player out of position?
 
Screamindemon3 said:
Do we really need another player out of position?
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Well, when we have a glut of players in several positions and holes in others, what would you suggest we do? Put mediocre players in those positions or good players in those positions?
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

USMNT needs to go to a 3-5-2/5-3-2 with wingbacks. We have no wingers and our outside backs are our best chance of providing width. And extra CB should help clean up the eventual mistakes the others make as well, since we have no good CB right now.
 
deacvision7 said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

USMNT needs to go to a 3-5-2/5-3-2 with wingbacks. We have no wingers and our outside backs are our best chance of providing width. And extra CB should help clean up the eventual mistakes the others make as well, since we have no good CB right now.
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Maybe say it again, just in case
 
LvG trying it at United made less sense to me. He played good wingers at wing back instead of pushing aggressive outside backs up to those wing back spots.
 
deacvision7 said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

USMNT needs to go to a 3-5-2/5-3-2 with wingbacks. We have no wingers and our outside backs are our best chance of providing width. And extra CB should help clean up the eventual mistakes the others make as well, since we have no good CB right now.
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Have we tried that at all?
 
I can't remember a time in the Jurgen era where we didn't play 4 in the back. Could be forgetting one I suppose.
 
I can't think of Jurgen ever playing anything other than a back 4 as well. At least from the start of the match. I would bet we've gone 3 back (chasing the game) or 5 back (defending a lead) late on at some point.
 
I thought JK tried the 5 in the back formation for one friendly in the past year or so and abandoned it at half time.
 
Demonbeck said:
Well, when we have a glut of players in several positions and holes in others, what would you suggest we do? Put mediocre players in those positions or good players in those positions?
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Cameron plays out of position at Stoke, and I'd take him at RB in the Gold Cup in a heartbeat over Chandler.
 
BTB said:
I thought JK tried the 5 in the back formation for one friendly in the past year or so and abandoned it at half time.
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Good call, it was the Chile away game where that experiment was coupled with the Jermaine Jones at centerback experiment
 
deacvision7 said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

USMNT needs to go to a 3-5-2/5-3-2 with wingbacks. We have no wingers and our outside backs are our best chance of providing width. And extra CB should help clean up the eventual mistakes the others make as well, since we have no good CB right now.
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I would like to see Klinsmann try this sometime. That's what friendlies are for, Jurgen
 
gsterp said:
Good call, it was the Chile away game where that experiment was coupled with the Jermaine Jones at centerback experiment
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I don't remember this, but I'm an old.

When's the next friendly? Peru? Go with Brooks-Gonzalez-Cameron as back three. Try it. Why not?
 
siff said:
BTW, do you even watch the Premier League? If so, you'd know whom he is. He's on TV literally every weekend during American coverage of English soccer.
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Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was calling you out, but I have literally never heard of him. I watch Premier League in a bar so I rarely pay attention to analysts.
 
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