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Message: [QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 3600769, member: 237"] Great stuff. One of the questions I do have still is can this squad do a better job of marking and defending for 90 minutes, especially the first 45 when we usually get bitten by a cheap goal on the counter. When play wasn't so great you saw the youth standout. In qualifying these teams will commit Battery to hold a lead. I love the talent to break them down and think we can overcome it but it would be nice to be on the front foot vs having to come back against nothing but dirty play. I think with a lead in CONCACAF there is no team but Mexico who is threatening this group. It is those moments/lapses and then what comes next that worries me still. Call it leftover PTS. I think WM is key to help us here the way Jones was in the past. Paired with all that talent to boot and for once I do think we can play wide enough and fast enough to break teams down when it's effectively playing against a 8-1-1. [/QUOTE]