Kansas Crimson

Cascadia wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 3:19 pm I'm not sure college bowl games should really be classified as "postseason" in the same way playoffs that decide champions are considered postseason.

Agreed.

They're just fun "bragging rights" matchups on neutral sites.

Have some questions for the upcoming 3 qualifying games.

Reyna is hurt.
Dest isn't playing in Barcelona.
Yedlin isn't playing at Galastray.

Yedlin has no business being on the national team.

Dest is stuck with an anti-american manager. Really sucks for him, but he's not going to play under Xavi no matter what he does.

Really feels like Dortmund is deliberately holding Reyna out longer than needed so they can 'justifiably' not release him for the international window.

That said, the USMNT should be able to get a minimum of 5 and realistically 7 points out of El Salvador, @Canada, Honduras without those 3 players.

Cascadia wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:44 am Yedlin has no business being on the national team.

I've heard this before on this bored yet he keeps playing.

Yeah, the list of poor personnel decisions by USMNT managers is long and extensive

Once again, you know it all.
Everyone is a clown.

Man, you're really triggered lately. You should take a break.

https://www.starsandstripesfc.com/2022/ ... ing-roster

Nice article and breakdown for those who don't follow closely.

I'm giving up with you to be honest.
Not a fan.
This'll be my response for the future for your standard snarky comments:

We get it.
You're better than the rest of us.

pdub wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:45 am I'm giving up with you to be honest.
Not a fan.

The feeling is mutual bud

We get it.
You're better than the rest of us.

I guess it depends on who you consider 'us'

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=870&p=240656#p240656

This little group of yours?

Ugh.....Player pool for the next three qualifiers is not great. Looks like we are trending back to the 2018 qualifying strategy of picking trash MLS players over European based players.

Gyasi Zardes, Jordan Morris, Sebastian Lletget, Christina Roldan, Kellyn Acosta, Paul Arriola, Sean Johnson, Brooks Lennon.......these guys have no business being on the roster.

Matt Turner, Miles Robinson, Walker Zimmerman, Gabriel Slonina and Jesus Ferreira are all fine.

For those of you who may not follow as closely this roster has more MLS based players (13) since before November 2020.

Last 7 major callups the MLS based player trend is 0-3-4-9-11-10-13

Europe based player trend is 23-23-29-17-16-15-15

Players of significance who didn't make the cut.
Daryl Dike
Josh Sargent
Jordan Pefok (formerly Siebatcheu)
Matthew Hoppe
Konrad de la Fuente
Giovanni Reyna (injured)
Gianluca Busio (maybe covid)
John Brooks
James Sands
Bryan Reynolds
Joe Scally
Cole Bassett
Tanner Tessmann


The schedule is fairly easy, so hopefully we get a little lucky with injuries and suspensions.

Paul Arriola has dirt on Gregggggg. No other reason he’s on the squad.

Arriola is boring.
Jordan Morris is exciting.
I think hes a good guy to bring for qualifying time see if he can round into form after his injury.

I also get Zardez.

Yedlin is in the mix as expected.

Also, 4 RB’s is straight clown town

https://www.espn.com/soccer/west-bromwi ... full-debut

Hopefully this is a minor injury. Even though Dike didn't get called up for this round of games, you have to think he's one of the favorites to make the World Cup squad.

Interested to see lineup. Does US go with a B+ squad against a team that struggles away from El Salvador or do they go pedal to the metal?

I’d rather save the A for Canada, even without Alphonso Davies in their lineup.

El Salvador is going to be without their two starting centerbacks as well.

It’s World Cup qualifying, you put your A+ squad out there and adjust as needed.