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Message: [QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3100496, member: 1452"] Disagree with this. Berhalter seems hell-bent on getting us to break our bunker-and-counter mentality, regardless of the short-term consequences for results. I applaud that. He has a full year to get it done. I hope he stays with it. And I hope that the younger generation has the talent to be able implement it. Klinsmann came in with a lot of fanfare about wanting to do the same thing and then discovered he wasn't working with Lahm and Ballack and Lose and Podolski...Bradley, to his credit, never tried to play that way because he knew the US did not have the skillset to be able to do so. Agree 100% about Steffan. If you are going to use your keeper as a release valve, he has to be competent with his feet and Steffan is awful. His turnover rate had to be 75% plus. He was directly responsible for the 2nd Mexico goal missing Morales by 2 yards on a 5 yard pass. I also agree about Trapp. His give away triggered the counter that led to Mexico's 3rd goal. He had another really rough night. I disagree wholeheartedly with most of the comments from the peanut gallery. There is page after page about less Bradley, less Altidore and more youth. Well, the board got its wish with lots of youth against an experienced A-/B+ Mexican side and got its head handed to it. And you want to fire the coach for not getting a result with the team we put on the field? Really? Dest got torched on the first Mexican goal and Chicharito, Mexico's all-time leading scorer, was left unmarked in the penalty area. Morales got undressed by Lozano on the 3rd Mexican goal. Youth will take its lumps. It is part of the growing process. As for the formation change, Berhalter has enough on his plate just trying to teach this team how to play the ball out off the back and work it up the field in the limited amount of time he has at his disposal. And you want him to implement a formation change on top of that? I could care less about results right now. For the first 15 minutes the ball movement was very good. Then we got very static as Mexico adjusted and their press started working and ours stopped working. Now we need to figure out how to make those same adjustments on the fly. I hope we see more of the same against Uruguay. [/QUOTE]

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