Oof! Seriously. Oof!
USA beat Guatamala 2-0 and Clint didn’t travel. So that’s good.
Not much else to declare. Liverpool away Saturday. They’re top of the league and all, so this’ll be one of those “do your best” games. We went last year and had the bewildering experience of watching a Kuqi/Healy strike partnership try to take on the tightest defence in the Premiership. Looking back I don’t know why that didn’t strike me as being strange at the time. Now it seems almost unpossible. I mean… well, we’ve all moved on haven’t we?
That’ll be me for now then. Enjoy your Thursday.
Bit late on this, but this is a great read from Jonathan Wilson. It talks about tactics and how different approaches lead to different matchups and therefore different sets of exploitable situations. I urge you to read it, and urge you to pick up Wilson’s book, “Inverting the Pyramid”, preferably from Crockatt & Powell. Any readers of this blog would enjoy that. You should also buy Musa Okwonga’s “A Cultured Left Foot” and David Goldblatt’s “The ball is round”.
The USA was already into the next round of WC qualifying so Bradley didn’t call in anybody who was a regular for a club playing competitive matches. (Eddie Johnson wasn’t called in either, for what it’s worth; apparently he’s starting to find some form at Cardiff, incidentally.) The squad was almost all MLS-based players, a couple of guys playing in Norway (also in their offseason if I’m not mistaken), and three guys not playing regularly for their European clubs (Brad Guzan at Villa, Jozy Altidore at Villarreal, Freddy Adu at Monaco). The next round of qualifying starts in February so presumably that will be Clint’s next callup.
Comment by Josh — November 20, 2008 @ 11:10 pm |
The kids looked good. Nice and creative.
Comment by Derek — November 21, 2008 @ 12:43 am |
I seem to remember Glen Hoddle playing 3-5-2 when in charge at Spurs. FFC beat them 3-0 at WHL in August 2003. And then he was sacked.
SM15
Comment by smfifteen — November 21, 2008 @ 8:08 am |
Pretty good version of “Roadhouse Blues” almost as good as The Quo’s. ;-)
Comment by Chopper — November 21, 2008 @ 12:26 pm |