Soccer Discussion

Well, ok....he's still not the striker we need.

 

Zardes on a hat trick???

 

Zardes is telling you to be more affectionate, Uni.

 

Jesus, now he draws iron on the post. Who is this guy?

Pulisic looking good.

 

Okay [dadgum], Zardes. You gotta eat what your team is putting on your plate. It looks delicious.

 

Run it up.

 

I think we broke them. Good fortune for us to play two absolutely awful teams to start.

 

Oh look. Altidore with a horrible touch.

This is my shocked face.

 

At least need some time. Berhalter just started. So stupid they waited so long to hire him

 

Breakage confirmed.

 

I would really like for McKennie to get one, too.

 

The commentators after the game are acting like we are still in 2017... I'm way more interested in 2022 than in 2018 at this point.

 

Altidore needs to take his steel toed boots out to pasture.

 

Yep, and qualifying in 2020 and 2021 will include a starting lineup of, at least, 3-4 new players.

 

I mean, Zardes has some ability but is not nearly decisive enough to be a forward. He wastes so many touches near goal. He'd be a decent midfielder, I think.

 

His second goal was nice and it was a beautiful setup from Pulisic.

 

He’d be great at starting counterattacks for the opposition

 

US women always flop around like this? Spain seems to not hit the ground

 

It's not fortune, it's the new format. Sorry if we've already talked about this, but the Gold Cup moving from 12 to 16 teams guarantees that we avoid Mexico, Costa Rica, and [insert current 4th-best in CONCACAF] for the entirety of the first round. We actually got an unusually tough group with three 2017 Hex participants--none of the other groups have more than one. I mean Costa Rica opened with freaking Bermuda and Nicaragua and now move into their toughest game of the group stage against Haiti.

 

USWNT looked a whole lot better than Spain, but we got really lucky that the ref was in the market for soft contact in the box. France is going to be scary next round.