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!@#$%! · 06.26.2014, 08:59 PM

@suchfriends re: tactics & strategy-- offense is not intrinsically harder than defense. sure, defense maybe comes first, but to attack we don't need great dribbling and creativity.

we have speed and power and decent passing-- exactly the same that costa rica used to win their group. i guarantee you if costa rica had said "oh, we're going to face the mighty uruguay, the legendary italy, let's park the bus and hope for the best" they would have lost big. their boldness has been their strength. granted i haven't seen them vs. england.

my issue is that usa has way better attackers than defenders. our attackers perform better. with ghana, on the attack, we scored twice. on the defense, they scored and we couldn't counterattack successfully even once. moreover, our first goal vs portugal was the fault of a bumbling fuckup who fucked up in front of the goal. our attackers don't fuck up like that.

our fullbacks are alright, they can mark wingers and they can help on the attack, but our central defenders are the fucking plague. i remember them the other day vs. portugal they were making some really stupid passes right in front of the goal AFTER the cameron fuckup, and i'm screaming "fucker, don't give it up a 2nd time!" fucking clueless.

costa rica doesn't have very technical players either and wins by attacking as well. i get it that weak teams often can survive by parking the bus, but i don't believe we can endure like this because as much as we lack the shot creation or great dribbling, we lack good defending even worse. if it weren't for beckermann as holding midfielder we'd be ten-times boned. we often hanged by a cunthair today.

then again i'm not the manager and klinsmann knows his players better, so losing 1-0 to germany is perhaps is a victory of sorts, but it could have easily gone 3-0 though. we were under siege -- we were buried and hopeless and we couldn't control our fate.

the usa doesn't have the technical chops for counterattacking quicky-- they get fucking entangled in the midfield with bradley losing balls and stuck again we are. we do better when we go forward in earnest. we have a better chance to run through at the wings with speed and power and some perpared passes, then put in some crosses or cut in to shoot-- we used some obviously rehearsed triangulation vs. portugal to win, but on the defense we died every time.

u.s. can't win on the defense. period. the evidence is right there if you break down the matches in their various phases. attack = win. defend = lose.

ps- for clarification, i'm not saying let the opponent run rampant, of course you need to defend, but defending by pressing high up the pitch has been for us much more successful than sitting back against our own goal. CR has done just that and killed 2 giants.

06.26.2014, 08:59 PM	#4942
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	@suchfriends re: tactics & strategy-- offense is not intrinsically harder than defense. sure, defense maybe comes first, but to attack we don't need great dribbling and creativity. we have speed and power and decent passing-- exactly the same that costa rica used to win their group. i guarantee you if costa rica had said "oh, we're going to face the mighty uruguay, the legendary italy, let's park the bus and hope for the best" they would have lost big. their boldness has been their strength. granted i haven't seen them vs. england. my issue is that usa has way better attackers than defenders. our attackers perform better. with ghana, on the attack, we scored twice. on the defense, they scored and we couldn't counterattack successfully even once. moreover, our first goal vs portugal was the fault of a bumbling fuckup who fucked up in front of the goal. our attackers don't fuck up like that. our fullbacks are alright, they can mark wingers and they can help on the attack, but our central defenders are the fucking plague. i remember them the other day vs. portugal they were making some really stupid passes right in front of the goal AFTER the cameron fuckup, and i'm screaming "fucker, don't give it up a 2nd time!" fucking clueless. costa rica doesn't have very technical players either and wins by attacking as well. i get it that weak teams often can survive by parking the bus, but i don't believe we can endure like this because as much as we lack the shot creation or great dribbling, we lack good defending even worse. if it weren't for beckermann as holding midfielder we'd be ten-times boned. we often hanged by a cunthair today. then again i'm not the manager and klinsmann knows his players better, so losing 1-0 to germany is perhaps is a victory of sorts, but it could have easily gone 3-0 though. we were under siege -- we were buried and hopeless and we couldn't control our fate. the usa doesn't have the technical chops for counterattacking quicky-- they get fucking entangled in the midfield with bradley losing balls and stuck again we are. we do better when we go forward in earnest. we have a better chance to run through at the wings with speed and power and some perpared passes, then put in some crosses or cut in to shoot-- we used some obviously rehearsed triangulation vs. portugal to win, but on the defense we died every time. u.s. can't win on the defense. period. the evidence is right there if you break down the matches in their various phases. attack = win. defend = lose. ps- for clarification, i'm not saying let the opponent run rampant, of course you need to defend, but defending by pressing high up the pitch has been for us much more successful than sitting back against our own goal. CR has done just that and killed 2 giants.
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