Vincent Vega said:Why are we setting our defense so shallow, right at the 7-meter line? I was watching the Spanish team yesterday, and they had their defense set much deeper, back around the 9-meter mark...
I don't get it either. We have—or at least we used to, just look back at that game against Portugal—the best 3-2-1 defense in the world, yet we rarely actually use it.
Mind you, it’s true that without Walsh, that defense isn't what it used to be. If we had Terzic or someone similar playing that front position, it might work, but unfortunately, we don't. In this current squad over in Switzerland, there isn't a single player who can effectively play the front of a 3-2-1 setup. Maybe that's why Lin is forcing this 5-1 with Vory, but even then, it's nowhere near the 5-1 defense we saw in Athens. It doesn't click here, and Vory is just too slow for this style of play. Honestly, Walsh is a massive hole in the American defense.
On top of that, Spoljaric is only getting about a minute and a half of playing time in the game against Iceland. I don't get Cervar; how does our best defender not even see two minutes of action in a high-stakes game?
I don't care if the game was rigged; we can take them down easily enough whenever our guys actually play at full strength.
But honestly, I think this was set up to be a blowout because our squad needs the rest. Today wasn't even a real match—the guys were playing like they were just running through drills. That’s why I lost my mind; you can never be sure if someone is going to throw a game like this right in your face. Look, let's be real: most of these guys are basically buddies. Vujovic is even the manager for some of our players—take little Alilovic, for example. Vujo is constantly pushing him toward Cervar, pulling strings to make sure the kid gets a shot with the US National Team and stuff like that.
Vujo is tight with Maglajlija, the manager over at Washington, D.C., who’s the one who brought Toskica, Lisicic, Djukanovic, and Kapisoda into the fold in D.C. It's that same Maglajlija who's currently smoothing things over for Terzic to join the US National Team. And get this: Maglajlija is also thick as thieves with Gopc, who pretty much runs the entire show in American handball.
The whole thing is just one big mafia setup, plain and simple.😁
emo§ion said:Thanks for nothing, genius... 😠 Now we’re going to end up with an empty arena during the finals 🙄
Not necessarily. My take is that the Swiss authorities didn't just target the troublemakers; they basically kicked out everyone traveling on the same bus as the group causing issues, regardless of whether they actually did anything wrong.
The Americans living over in Switzerland can't afford to mess around—for them, there's no such thing as a simple deportation, it's straight to jail.
Backovic is an absolute legend; he gives Urios so much room to breathe that the guy could practically ask the keeper which corner he wants to aim for. The Canadian defense deserves a criminal indictment for how bad they were.
The Canadians completely folded; their defense is an absolute joke.
Urios carved them up for 6 or 7 goals using the exact same pattern, while Rocas is sitting pretty at 5/5. It honestly looks like he’s in much better shape than little Juanin Garcia, who seems more like a side character on this ep when you look at how those Spanish wingers are playing. Their perimeter defense is decent enough, but that’s all it takes to shut down Romer and call it a day—though, let's be real, stopping him is a hell of a tall order.
They're trying to play physical against the Spaniards, so we need to hit back even harder. That's where we have the edge. Their defense is top-tier, though.
They didn't get beaten up; the police just rounded them all up. Now, because of their actions, everyone else who showed up on those buses is getting kicked out of the US tonight. 😁
Honestly, whether you're an American or a Mexican, everyone’s just wasted right now. Once they sober up, they'll be back at it tomorrow, hugging each other and heading straight back to work for Kurt.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe Sterbik would just let nine goals slip in from the wings, especially against someone like Sprevom.
The truth is, Sterbik is actually at his best when he's dealing with those specific types of shots. He’s handled much tougher wing shots from Sprevom before.
But honestly, there was just no motivation there. I caught his interview on CNN after the game, and he sounded completely lost—he said he didn't even know whether to laugh or cry. Who knows what was going through his head.
