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[Adrian]

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USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino has spoken with AC Milan about its vacant head coaching job, sources confirmed to ESPN.Pochettino's contract with U.S. Soccer runs through the end of the upcoming World Cup. Sources told ESPN that Milan plans to invest heavily in youth, as well as building a competitive squad and that this type of project appeals to Pochettino.

 

[Adrian]

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[Adrian]

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[Stout]

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Thus showing exactly why this team is going absolutely nowhere. He shouldn't be anywhere near the team.

 

[Adrian]

Doug McIntyre
@ByDougMcIntyre
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The #USMNT and Senegal have agreed, per FIFA rules, to use the maximum of up to 11 substitutes each in today’s World Cup tuneup in Charlotte.

 

[Adrian]

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[Lorenzo]

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I have not kept up with Senegal's national side. it was a great start for the USA, very positive.

 

[Lorenzo]

Pepi with two great passes on both goals. good to see that.

 

[Adrian]

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[cardpa]

Finally got to watch the Senegal match and I have to admit, the attack was pretty impressive. Good ball movement as well as player movement. I still have concerns about the defense in that playing aback three and the opponent gets a fast counterattack, the outside backs are so far up field they can't get back in time exposing the back three and especially Ream. I get the fact that having the outside back rotate up so far is helping with the scoring threat, however the liability of that is getting caught without enough defenders to solve a counter.

AS far as individual players were concerned, I thought McKennie and Dest looked good as did Zendejas. Freeman looked solid as did Reyna. Berhalter held his own. Pulisic finally performed up to expectations. I now understand why Zendejas made it over Luna, just as much hustle with better ball skills. Balogun was dangerous.

Miles Robinson was just plain bad. Brady seemed in over his head in net. Let's hope neither one gets to see the field. Scally was okay, still not sold on him. It will be interesting to see if Richards plays against Germany. I have a gut feeling Richards is not going to be available for the first couple of matches.

Overall, I have a little more faith in this team but am holding off on any total buy in until after the Germany match.

 

[Stout]

Finally got to watch the Senegal match and I have to admit, the attack was pretty impressive. Good ball movement as well as player movement. I still have concerns about the defense in that playing aback three and the opponent gets a fast counterattack, the outside backs are so far up field they can't get back in time exposing the back three and especially Ream. I get the fact that having the outside back rotate up so far is helping with the scoring threat, however the liability of that is getting caught without enough defenders to solve a counter.

AS far as individual players were concerned, I thought McKennie and Dest looked good as did Zendejas. Freeman looked solid as did Reyna. Berhalter held his own. Pulisic finally performed up to expectations. I now understand why Zendejas made it over Luna, just as much hustle with better ball skills. Balogun was dangerous.

Miles Robinson was just plain bad. Brady seemed in over his head in net. Let's hope neither one gets to see the field. Scally was okay, still not sold on him. It will be interesting to see if Richards plays against Germany. I have a gut feeling Richards is not going to be available for the first couple of matches.

Overall, I have a little more faith in this team but am holding off on any total buy in until after the Germany match.

I don't think they were playing a back 3, but I only read an article. They said Dest was playing as a pure winger and would probably do so in the WC.

 

[Adrian]

USMNT Only
@usmntonly
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The USMNT friendly vs. Senegal on Sunday was the MOST-WATCHED USMNT friendly on television since 2019 — peaking at 1.1M viewers across TBS and HBO Max, per TNT Sports.

Soccer in the U.S.

 

[cardpa]

I don't think they were playing a back 3, but I only read an article. They said Dest was playing as a pure winger and would probably do so in the WC.

I did some checking and indeed they played a 3 back system against Senegal. Dest and Robinson were playing as wingers or what I would call outside mids instead of true outside backs. Yes it helps in the attack as the goal by Dest showed however it does expose the back three when these two get caught up on a counter which is usually as a result of a give away in the midfield. I'm pretty sure teams will realize any give away in the mid will cause them to run an immediate jail break to get numbers up against the back three for easy chances. I don't expect any of our GKs to have a clean sheet in this WC because of this.