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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 4487006, member: 210"]
Yet this same team beat Morocco 3-0 earlier in the year in a match. Granted it was a friendly, but watching that match you got the sense of the two teams played 100 times the US wins 70 to 80 times because of the talent difference. A new coach comes in for Morocco and they make it to the semifinals in a non-flukey way. Coaching matters and can help a less talented team beat a more talented one.

The Dutch beat the US by forcing our center backs to make long passes and they couldn’t. Japan did the same thing and destroyed us right before the World Cup, Canada did the same thing during qualifying and beat us twice. There was no plan B in any of those matches from the coach… they just kept on doing. The best game the US played was against England when Berhalter move away from his favored 4-3-3 and went with a 4-4-2, yet he didn’t the same against the Dutch and fell for their trap.

Berhalter’s biggest mistake was insisting on playing crappy number 9s vs moving Weah to forward and pairing him with pulisic with Reyna or Aaronson as a true 10. He made this mistake over the last two years by never ever trying something other than 4-3-3 with a crappy striker even though it’s been obvious we don’t have a World Cup caliber one.
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