Cowell certainly opened the left, but i thought we were doing better progressing up the right in the 2nd half, we just couldn't connect going from wide to central in the final attack
because they couldnt lose first defender and would pin themselves against touch line- Reynolds, for as well as he has played last 2 games, was not nearly as effective vs Canada. Not sure if that was due to not playing much w/ Gressel, asked to stay back to defend more etc.
What did work was feigning right side attack and switching the ball ( one pass, long ) all the way left since Canada would shift entire defense to right side ( to allow them to switch from player to player to defend quickly ) Just didnt do enough. And for all that Cowell brings, he still lacks some touch on his crosses. But you can live with that when he constantly breaking down a defense into scrambling - one of his valls will eventually make it thru.