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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 3948798, member: 210"]
The point of soccer is to put that round thing in the back of the net. Even this summer the nats struggled to create chances from run of play and those struggles continue. The network diagram [USER=652]Alsacs[/USER] posted above is the problem with Berhalter ball… almost all passes are sideways or backwards, no overlaps, no movement up the middle because it’s too clogged, no switch of play. These are all strategies that these players execute quite well with their club teams… but mysteriously they all forget how to play with USMNT?

It’s too easy to contain the US… clog the middle and let the back line pass sideways and backwards until the inevitable turn over happens and then take advantage of whichever side of the field Dest is on. Lather, wash, rinse, repeat.

This team needs to have someone who can break lines with a pass and to find some width. The reason our number 9s suck so hard is they never get the ball in a position to do something with it.
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