OT: soccer thread

Flip Murray · Post #1441 » by **Flip Murray** » Sat Oct 8, 2016 12:23 am

fatlever wrote:Is that seriously the best field Cuba has to offer for this game? That's awful. Youth rec league fields where they played 10 games a day are nicer.

I had to cut it off before half. Couldnt take it anymore with the disgraceful field conditions. I'd rather watch a rec game. That field was worse than any field I ever played on and I've played on some dirt clods. What a joke

Flip Murray · Post #1442 » by **Flip Murray** » Sat Oct 8, 2016 12:24 am

We put our players in a position to get injured

Flip Murray · Post #1443 » by **Flip Murray** » Sat Oct 8, 2016 12:27 am

I was so excited too

Post #1444 » by **fatlever** » Sat Oct 8, 2016 1:11 am

Same here, I stopped watching around halftime. It was pointless.

Buzzed_Hornet · Post #1445 » by **Buzzed_Hornet** » Sat Oct 8, 2016 2:35 am

If Jurgen leaves for whatever reason in the next couple of years with pulisic, carter vickers, and maybe green (still not sure on him) starting to get into their primes, the next coach of the USA is walking into a gold mine.

Flip Murray · Post #1446 » by **Flip Murray** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:10 am

Our young goalkeepers look janky as hell

Flip Murray · Post #1447 » by **Flip Murray** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:10 am

Flip Murray wrote:Our young goalkeepers look janky as hell

I think the problem is they all have hair

Snidely FC · Post #1448 » by **Snidely FC** » Wed Nov 2, 2016 1:59 pm

amazing game winner by Mesut Ozil vs Ludogorets

Watch on YouTube

Flip Murray · Post #1449 » by **Flip Murray** » Thu Nov 3, 2016 2:26 am

the beautiful game

Post #1450 » by **fatlever** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:01 pm

USA v Mexico world cup qualifying - tomorrow night at 8PM on Fox Sports 1.

Big decisions to be made between watching Hornets vs Raptors 2nd half, or USA vs Mexico. One of them will have to be watched on delay, unless you double screen. And since both games are on Fox networks, at the same time, we are bound to have spoilers on both.

Flip Murray · Post #1451 » by **Flip Murray** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:16 pm

fatlever wrote:USA v Mexico world cup qualifying - tomorrow night at 8PM on Fox Sports 1.

Big decisions to be made between watching Hornets vs Raptors 2nd half, or USA vs Mexico. One of them will have to be watched on delay, unless you double screen. And since both games are on Fox networks, at the same time, we are bound to have spoilers on both.

I am so juiced for this game. Dos a cero please

Post #1452 » by **JDR720** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:38 pm

probably going to be a tie.

wonder if mexico has recovered from the 7-0 game or whatever it was

Post #1453 » by **JDR720** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:53 am

hurry up and build that wall already

Post #1454 » by **fatlever** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:55 am

too many similarities between the Hornets game and the USA game. Double gut punch. Awful first half, great second half, undone in last 2 minutes.

What the hell was JK thinking with that formation to start the game?

Post #1455 » by **JDR720** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 9:25 am

fatlever wrote:too many similarities between the Hornets game and the USA game. Double gut punch. Awful first half, great second half, undone in last 2 minutes.

What the hell was JK thinking with that formation to start the game?

no idea, 3 in the back is not the way to go with a team with the offensive talent of Mexico.

play costa rica next, hopefully tim can play but i doubt it.

Flip Murray · Post #1456 » by **Flip Murray** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:36 am

JK Out

I don't give a **** who In

Post #1457 » by **fatlever** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:37 am

He has to go. Enough is enough.

Post #1458 » by **JDR720** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 7:26 am

arena is supposedly the fav to replace him

euphorbus · Post #1459 » by **euphorbus** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:57 pm

fatlever wrote:He has to go. Enough is enough.

You have to wonder how a man can be a successful coach when he holds most of his players in contempt because they are not as good as he was, and when he thinks the league they play in is second rate?

Then again, you have to wonder at his personnel decisions. I used to think that Michael Bradley was a very good midfielder, but now he looks like a mediocre hack who can barely complete a pass. Klinsmann left Landon Donovan off the World Cup team with predictably disastrous results: no panache, poor connection, little creativity up front. There are only about five really good players on the team right now, and two of them are injured: Dempsey, Cameron, Guzan, Wood, and Pulisic, who is only 18. (I have always detested Altidore, even though he has scored 34 international goals over the years.)

I was screaming last night when Gonzalez jogged casually down to face Bolanos in the left side of the box, stopping a good ten feet away. Sure enough, Venegas scores off a clean cross for the killer goal. My basketball hero, Tyler Hansbrough, would never have tolerated laziness like that on his team. He would have knocked Gonzalez on his can. Klinsmann should have removed him immediately. Anson Dorrance would have done it for sure.

euphorbus · Post #1460 » by **euphorbus** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:11 pm

Here is the play:

http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2016/11/15/13645688/johan-venegas-goal-costa-rica-usa-world-cup-qualifying