USMNT - ‘23 and beyond

We can only hope that all of the controversy and the lack of scoring threat in the WC has caused some introspection and reflection on the on field product.

Just looking at how we played under GGG for the most part, it was a defensive approach with feeding crosses into the middle from the fullbacks. Tuechel-lite Chelsea IMO.

But it’s clear when you put someone with the ball skills of Reyna in the middle, we can dictate the game and score goals from, even with a mostly defensive formation.

IMO opponents were not concerned about our mids, even with dual 8s with the MMA lineup. Everyone just focused on Pulisic. These last two lineups have added a threat to the middle at multiple levels.
Yes to all of that
My only thing is I can’t get my head to go ‘ggg is a complete nimrod,…et al’
Ha made significant mistakes at WC for sure, but it has to have been in response to squad things - not just pulling stuff out of his butt
Like maybe he just saw them as tiny tots - and now he can’t do that anymore- if for no other reason than they’re not going to let him treat them like U18s
Like they’re going to make him their manager not their coach