Only way to stop it is ban all fans for years and maybe shut down the Mexican national team for a year or two. It’s not the team’s fault per say, but it’s their fans and he punishments deserving.
A similar situation happened at Olympic qualifying. CONCACAF forced Haiti to play with ten. I have no idea what their threshold for available players is, but it does seem the the organizers will push hard for it to be played,
I'm in. I'd like to have better CB depth for this than Donovan Pines, but it beats the alternative.
All true.
I've been thinking a 3ATB formation (3-5-2, 3-4-3, 3-4-2-1, whatever) should be seriously explored going forward as it is. We really have not looked as good in a 4-3-3 especially against better competition. Our D was seriously exposed against Switzerland and the Honduras Nations League match was not any better. Against Mexico Gregg chose to go with 3 CB (and one was even Tim frickin Ream). Besides the D looking exposed in the 4-3-3, it just seemed too congested in the midfield with Dest cutting inside and both wingers dropping back. The huge asterisk of course is that Tyler Adams did not feature much in those games. Most of the top guys for the USMNT play in 3ATB formations- Adams, McKennie, Richards, Brooks, Dest. I can't pretend to know what Genk play. Fulham alternated between 3 and 4 defenders, but Robinson played almost exclusively when they went with 3 ATB and sat when Parker decided to go with 4 defenders.
I think having played a game will help. I think it's good they did not play the first game against Canada and got the three points. Let's see what happens next.
I turned it on right at halftime, so this has been tremendously entertaining. At some point Qatar went from potentially one of the worst nations to ever play at World Cup to champions of Asia, and I completely missed it.
