USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

[Jed Zeppelin]

I feel like my entire youth was sitting in the Foxboro bleachers outnumbered by Hondurans and Guatemalans and so on.

I know they did their best to manipulate ticket sales to get them in the hands of as many USMNT supporters as possible (pre-sales and so on).

 

[Titans Bastard]

Lineup:


Pulisic on the right in a 4-4-2, apparently, though I expect he'll be allowed to drift where he wants. They could easily transform into an assymetrical 4-4-2 diamond with Pulisic in the hole and Nagbe playing more pinched in than Johnson.

Dempsey continues his new role as supersub.

Costa Rica:

 

[Titans Bastard]

Hedges, Roldan, and Wondo are the three who aren't in the 23-man squad

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

On yellow: Besler, Braldey, Altidore, Cameron.

(Also on yellow, but not called up: Jones, Brooks, Yedlin, Arriola.)

Edit: Whoops, Arriola is up.

 

[NJ_Sox_Fan]

So annoyed. I forgot this was in Newark, and thus, am on my couch. Damn kids and their distractions.

 

[67YAZ]

Pulisic on the right in a 4-4-2, apparently, though I expect he'll be allowed to drift where he wants. They could easily transform into an assymetrical 4-4-2 diamond with Pulisic in the hole and Nagbe playing more pinched in than Johnson.

I'm keen to see how Pulisic & Altidore have built rapport. If Pulisic is given the kind of freedom you mention, he and Jozy could play off each pretty dynamically and open up good space for Bobby Wood.

 

[SoxFanInCali]

Ream giving me my first heart attack of the game.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Wikipedia says this ground is 75 yards wide. It must be camera placement, but it looks more narrow than that.

 

[Senator Donut]

Stop it, Christian, I can only get so erect.

 

[Senator Donut]

Wikipedia says this ground is 75 yards wide. It must be camera placement, but it looks more narrow than that.

If it's indeed 75-yards wide, then there should be 4.5 yards between the hash marks and the 18-yard box, which seems correct on television.

 

[Investor 11]

Damn, wish Wood would have played that ball in to a better spot there.

 

[Titans Bastard]

Wood's passing has been utter crap this game.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

This high press is a high wire act. When we break it, we get in good position, but it seems we're equally likely to flirt with a turnover.

I wish we were a bit more competitive in the air. CR getting most of the head-level 50/50 balls so far.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

That's a penalty. For fuck's sake.

 

[SoxFanInCali]

That looked like it should have been a pen.

 

[OCST]

Get that whistle out of your pocket, man.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

If it's indeed 75-yards wide, then there should be 4.5 yards between the hash marks and the 18-yard box, which seems correct on television.

Interesting -- I guess so then.

 

[Titans Bastard]

#CONCACAF

 

[allstonite]

CONCACAF-ey

 

[SoxFanInCali]

Altidore took about 10 stutter-steps to control that ball, lost the chance.

 

[Ed Hillel]

One time that shit.

 

[eddiew112]

WTF was that from Cameron

 

[SoxFanInCali]

Can someone please remind Cameron that he is playing center back, not center mid? Don't take chances like that when you're the last man.

 

[OCST]

should've been a CR goal

 

[SoxFanInCali]

FFS

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Rats.

 

[eddiew112]

What a fucking awful sequence

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Ream is a dumpster fire.

 

[Investor 11]

Handball??

 

[OCST]

Brutal. Let's put some traffic cones back there.

 

[Ed Hillel]

Wow, owned.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Altidore took about 10 stutter-steps to control that ball, lost the chance.

It looked like he was about to play it to Pulisic, but Pulisic got played off side and so Altidore had to hold it.

 

[OCST]

Who wants to go to Russia in the summertime anyway. Black flies are terrible from what I hear.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Started by winning a ball in the air. They almost got another chance by winning in the air again.

That's where they are dominating -- creating chances and taking away possession. Every 50/50 ball in the air goes to the Ticos.

 

[Clears Cleaver]

Ream is a dumpster fire.

Brooks was here

My goodness he's awful

 

[OCST]

Better but not good enough

 

[Ed Hillel]

Was that a hand ball on Pulisic's shot?

 

[Ed Hillel]

Nope

 

[OCST]

Would really like an equalizer before the half

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Costa Rica look like they could defend like this for four hours if they needed to.

 

[OCST]

CONCACAF!

 

[Ed Hillel]

Oh no

 

[OCST]

Boooo

Should have been a penalty given

Other than that, crap

Howard looks ready for the glue factory

 

[Senator Donut]

We're getting worked by a bunch of MLS nobodies (plus one dude who plays for the best club in the world)

 

[SoxFanInCali]

Ream with a chance at redemption, can't get solid contact on goal.

 

[OCST]

More physical - good

 

[allstonite]

For a team that got away with a clear penalty plus some other dangerous challenges with minimal punishment Costa Rica does a lot of whining

 

[eddiew112]

What a fucking joke

 

[OCST]

How could that have been on Wood?????

 

[SoxFanInCali]

What the hell did Wood do there?