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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 4688977, member: 210"]
I thought the World Cup was okay… I don’t know if there is some magical coaching strategy that is going to turn the USMNT into some top 5 team . They are a very athletic team who have a solid squad from top to bottom but no game changers. Pulisic is the closest they have but he doesn’t make the team better and his accuracy is not consistent enough (see the miss against England). The team lacks that bit of magic they need to create enough chances to beat the good European/south American sides when it matters. To Egg heads credit, he’s made the team very hard to score on and he’s seriously upgraded the talent on the squad. Long gone are the days of Frankie Heydude motoring up and down the sideline… the main issue I have is that he tinkers too much by playing players out of position from their club teams. We have more than enough talent at each position where we don’t need to be playing players out of position. But then came the World Cup and he burned his core guys out. He also held on to players who don’t belong with the team way too long.

For better or for worse we don’t have to qualify for the next World Cup…
I predict round of 16 or if we get a lucky draw, quarter final appearance. The wild card is whether Reyna can resume his track to superstar as a true attacking midfielder. If he can, that give the us the joker they need to become truly elite. But that also means berhalter needs to give up on his MMA midfield which I don’t see happening.
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