Pretty much the same as with the seniors --- at the top level, good teams finish and pretenders don't.
Mitrovic lost his opportunity for the big interview. Final 0-4? If Henry is interested then he won't go for 5, right?
wahhh -waaaaah. Just not good at all. Completely dominated and lack of focus in critical moments. It's pretty consistent with US soccer for the last decade.
I have absolutely no complaints about the first half. Or even up to the 60th minute honestly. after that.......woooooof. And yeah Im putting in Gaga next match.
This game was lost when Tolkin hit the bar on that sitter. France has better players up front and between the sticks so the only way you get a result is to take advantage of your opportunities.... and we didn't. I will be curious to see how they perform against the other group stage opponents.... I fear that we will play down to a team like New Zealand and subsequently get bounced.
and that's game. Literally everyone expected that scoreline. Lets go get the next two we SHOULD win now.
It was like right at 60 minutes the US quit playing hard. Or smart. That first goal you could see from a mile away as Busio jogged behind the play. Shulte is not really able to reach is he.
Incompetent ref cost Domincan Republic a goal. Forward cleanly steals ball from defender. Defender kicks forward in back of leg, hurting himself. Forward stays on feet and puts ball in goal as ref calls foul on forward. Whistle blowing before ball in net mean VAR cannot correct the error. DR got robbed. Play starts at 25 secs into this video: Egypt v. Dominican Republic | Paris Olympics 2024: Men's Soccer Highlights | NBC Sports (youtube.com)
Score line is a bit unfortunate as I do think for much of game US handled themselves well, but yeah 2 goals outside the box (first one Schulte should have one better with) was the difference. Third goal Milrs fell over people in the box. US had some high quality chances and just didn't convert
i dont think we were especially bad, but the 3 goals definitely are. the first hour or so we were solid enough and france were settling for very low percentage shots, but we didnt pose enough of a threat until they had already broken through. once they did get a goal we finally started making some changes/taking more chances but the more we did the more we left cracks and they were some combination of ruthless and lucky. this team is gonna miss morris a lot- both in paring tesserman covering routinely weak backlines and in distributing the ball/taking advantage of our wings- and where most people are upset about luna i cant believe we left cade out of this team (and no, it wasnt a release issue). luna and paxten have shown flashes in this team over the last couple of years but cowell was the dominant player. hopefully we can play to our wings better in the coming matches, and give mcguire freaking anything to work with. we need busio to play both ways without morris, so djordje really doesnt have the luxury of having another "quiet" match. this team/"group" has never been about a defined attack building up to a final touch so if we are sputtering around for another half, 50 minutes maybe we need to just let 4 of paredes, pax, yow, booth and wiley go nuts. if would rock and roll if cowell and/or luna were in that mix (definitely moreso with morris behind them), i just dont know that this team as constructed makes a ton of sense. it makes all the sense in the world to want a fully developed, mature 10 to sort of shape those other attackers around, i just dont think mihailovic is that guy. hes just in this team, and france obviously isnt anywhere close to a pushover but he was entirely too slow (in every way) and ineffective today. sometimes "too young/dumb/inexperienced to be scared/intimidated/whatever" is the best play, and i cant help feeling that might be the case after today.
Yeah. I was surprised by the omissions of both Cowell and Luna. I believe Booth was used as a CF after McGuire was subbed out. We simply don't have anyone else at the position. Shockingly bad roster construction. Cowell and Luna are to be preferred over any two of Booth, Paxten, Yow and Mihailovic.
1.12 to 0.77 in xG 11-9 6-4 in terms of shots and sogs Attacks and Dangerous attacks were on flashscore: 122-82 and 50-37 So, completely dominated seems a stretch in everything save scoreline. I'm beyond sick of not finishing chances and total --- goal keeping too, but the underlying numbers reflect what most people saw: the US was grossly unlucky, and probably hosed, at least on one of France's goals, possibly on one we scored, and overall, a fair score would have been 1-0, 2-1 or 3-2. 3-0 was ridiculous and 19x out of 20 when a game is played with these underlying numbers, it's a 1 goal game, 2 max, a 3 goal win is HUGELY against these numbers. But yeah, I'm beyond sick of this too, and going in I thought we had a 3% chance of winning, a 10-12% chance of a draw and about an 80-85% chance of a loss, so I wasn't expecting anything, but what happened? The end result? Pretty ridiculous.