Unlike the Chargers (and the USA) we've actually won something worth shouting about. I'll be very gracious and cordial with you when we beat you to go through in 2 weeks time.

I’ll remind you that you’re still ****ing stuck in England regardless of the result.

London is infinitely better than whatever shitehole you call home.

Can't wait til the US beats those bad teeth having losers from England behind Pulisics man of the match performance

So, even though I'm a soccer fan it is at best the 4th sport that people play here. Soccer doesn't come near getting the best athletes the US produces and still competes at the highest level. Where is England at in that? The fact that your best plays it and still doesn't accomplish anything.

I honestly hope Pulisic has a good tourney so we can get as much as possible for him when we sell him in the summer. He has 3 or 4 good games a season, he's basically like CEH. I've been to 5 away games this season and Pulisic is always one of the players to walk straight off the pitch without going to the away support to clap them. A really arrogant player for someone who hasn't made it yet.

You're kidding yourself if you think you are competing at the highest level. Another Raiders style take unfortunately.

I guess making the knockout round isn't competing at the highest level

Pulisic > Mason Mount

The two words after competing are 'to win'. You aren't doing that yet. Maybe after your world cup in 2026 there will be a big 'soccer' boom and you end up with generation who can realistically challenge to win a world cup. But you aren't remotely close to that yet if you're honest.

Christian looks better on YouTube highlights reels granted. Mount gets a lot of stick for being anonymous in some games but since he's been playing in the first team he's had at least 20 very good games whilst Pulisic has probably had about 6 or 7 in that same period. He's got all the ability but I just don't think he's mentally there.

Even when talking about 'soccer' I can find a way to call out CEH for being a complete JAG. He'd be useless at this sport too

I have to disagree.

In 2014 the us was grouped with Germany, Ghana, and Portugal, and they advanced out of groups. If that’s not called competing at the highest level I don’t know what is.

I don’t think any betting man here or anyone would believe that the us can win the World Cup this year, but if it happened, people would only be surprised and if would probably take a few draws into shoot out wins to make it happen…

Just because you aren’t one of the favorites of the tournament doesn’t mean you’re not competing at the highest level…

If the us gets a draw against England or even upsets England, then are you changing your stance to both England and the us aren’t competing at the highest level?

He gets wayyyyy less minutes and does more. Stopppppp

the thing about the world cup is you don't have to be great to make a deep run. turkey and south korea made the semis in 2002, and the US made the quarters. ghana was a penalty away from the semis in 2010, likewise for costa rica in 2014. none of these countries are top level or close to winning a world cup anytime soon. sure, we could go on a respectable run in this thing, but even if we do, it won't be overly indicative about the level of soccer in this country. it's just every world cup has a cinderella. the sports media in this country will never admit this for obvious reasons though.

Just like the French team aka the French Foreign Legion.

You had no hope of winning the thing though despite getting through a tough group on paper. Have you ever heard of Tottenham Hotspur? Their fans still celebrate all their victories against teams bigger than them in the PL/Champions League. They haven't won anything meaningful since I've been born and yet they seem proud of that. It's pathetic. You're America, the Great. Don't be like Spurs.

The US has no chance of winning the world cup by the way. Their best player is a shitty bench player for my club and he's our equivalent of CEH. I'm not being a provocative wanker by the way, it's a fact. You lot need to group up for your time in 2026.

Pulisic wasn’t a bench player until he got hurt, and then they changed their scheme and since they replaced the coach, Pulisics been in the dog house and no one knows why.

I wouldn’t take prime Donovan and those teams over our team now tbh so not sure if you’re being biased for England but our team could literally play for our u-23 national team, yet they are playing for the big boy team instead, that’s how young this squad is.

Also the analysts agree with you about 2026 being our year, but that doesn’t mean this team cant or won’t make any noise in this World Cup.

Another poster put it best, this squad can fizzle out in groups or make a run to quarters. Neither would be surprising since we are such a dark horse for this tournament and from what I’ve read, true England insiders don’t like having to face our squad exactly for that reason.

I’m confused as to your point, because you’re saying we had no chance of winning it all, and we also aren’t competing at the highest level, well which is it? You can say “both” but if that’s your answer, please see below my question for the second time.

I asked you if we beat you (England) or draw, does that mean you guys also aren’t competing at the highest level? After all, if we can’t compete at the highest level, y’all shouldn’t finish with a draw against the us because we are so inferior, so as I said, what’s your stance if we draw or upset England?

He comments sometimes about wanting to be a regular to play himself into form, but you get minutes by being productive and he hasn’t been for some time. I don’t think Pulisic’s good enough for Chelsea, honestly. He might have been better off at Dortmund

Adams and Aaronson made it to the break healthy, though Adams was sent off today for a silly second yellow. Aaronson seems like a decent player though.

Reyna is looking good as well.

I know this is going to sound stupid as hell, but our guys have a lot of good fifa ratings for fifa 23 lmao. They have higher ratings than other players that people are gushing over.

A Chelsea fan acting like a ****. *shocking*

Are you planning on acting like a troll in every thread on this site? Like is that your goal? I'm perfectly fine with someone posting stuff I don't agree with or even do agree with but don't like to hear but my goodness man. What a start to your time here.

At least we wash our legs in America you ****ing bundle of sticks

All of those lofty expectations are ones *he* set and then he did not come close to living up to them.

The truth is to be successful in CONCACAF you have to play some rough grind people into the mud soccer. UEFA is worlds better than CONCACAF but the grind of CONCACAF qualifying is underappreciated.

Much in the same European players come to MLS and have no idea how hard it is to play week in and week out in a country as big as the USA is. That does not make MLS better than those others places but its hard in a way people on the outside do not understand or appreciate until they are in it.

I know it will not go like this but just looking at all the available players...

- Sargent -

-Pulisic- -Weah -

- Aaronson Reyna -

- Adams -

-Jedi Long Zim Dest -

...this team would be a complete bitch to play against. Not the most defensively sound eleven, but if they win the ball in the press, you could be ****ed in a hurry.

(BB would not let me space those players the way i wanted)

Long STINKS! I’d put Ream or CCV there. Especially when we are playing against Wales and England.

Either you’re old as shit (which I’m guessing isn’t the case with your middle school personality) or you’re for some reason forgetting you could have put the England National team into place for Tottenham and the facts remain the same. Your trolling is very weak. It would be understandable if you came from an actual soccer powerhouse like Germany or Brazil…but England? No England fan should be talking any shit to anyone about soccer.

I’m assuming you’re factoring McKennie’s injury into this? No way he shouldn’t be starting if he’s fully healthy. I think Reyna is a valuable super sub since he can take over for Aaronson or Weah. Musah is a similar one like that. We have so much fullback depth and speed that I think teams are going to be surprised that they can’t just run by us on the wing every build up. Lots of depth on this squad and it’s the perfect year for that with the 5 subs allowed.

Let me out this as politely and succinctly as I can: **** off, Limey bitch

Confirmed Chav

I once watched England and USA play in the world cup and the England goalie got scored on by a shot slowly rolling right to him on the ground. Most passes are struck with more pace. The guy whiffed and the goal scored and USA won.

It was pathetic by England. Embarassing.

I found out later that goaltending is just that bad in Europe cause they don't play many sports with their hands, so they arent good at using their hands. That's even more embarassing.

Robert Green was his name.

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Focusing on the important things before Qatar.

This is great. A subtle **** you to Qatar is always welcomed.

Hopefully they get banned

Jesus. Everyone always knew soccer wasn't straight. But to remove your country's flag/colors for international competition to instead promote man on man anal sex as a lifestyle, that's a bit on the nose.

Truly pathetic.

I dont give a **** about what other people do with themselves, but I'm ****ing tired of being told to embrace it.

Yeah. And a great **** you to America by not using the colors of our flag. That Americans died to protect.

Can we stop pretending gays are oppressed in the USA?

Pretty much the same thing now days

Won't happen.

Pretending to be oppress is a moneymaker.

This is more of a **** you towards Fifa and Qatar than anything else. The crest is only on warmup kits. Qatar obviously has a terrible record of human rights and FIFA allowing them to basically tell the players to shut up and play is going to get some major pushback and I’m all for it. This crest and the one love arm band that the European countries are using all have yet to be sanctioned by FIFA so they won’t be used in actual games without any punishment unless FIFA sanctions it. It’s putting pressure on FIFA to pick a side between the dirty money they made letting Qatar host or their hypocritical stance on Diversity and Inclusion.

Take it up with Islam

How in the **** is Carr4MVP allowed to even still post in the main forum? The guy brings nothing to sports talk discussions. He cries in lounge threads more than Carr cries on postgame podiums.

Literally nobody cares.

You seem to make posts in different places laboring under the idea that anyone seeks your perspective.

Closer the tournament gets the more I think it’s going to be a very big one for Tim Weah. I think this is his moment and he is ready for it.

FIFA even tried to get Mexican supporters to stop this.

My favorite chant in world soccer.

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Not sure why everyone is flying off the handle at you. Our soccer players spend as much time on being activists as they do playing soccer. They are an easy bunch to root against.

World cup kick off times are pretty decent for me. The games are mostly at either 3pm or 7pm so if a good match is on I'll just finish work early at 2.30. Think you lot might be getting a bit screwed though.

Yeah these times are not great. As a teacher the summer was pretty much perfect. This is not so much, especially coaching hs hockey.

Because I don't break the rules.

:D

I very much feel this as well. One week!

Would love that. He’s been playing really well for Lille and he’s really our only true winger. He brings so much when he’s in the lineup at RW. I’m very nervous to see the lineup Berhalter goes with. I’d say Pulisic at LW Adams at CDM Zimmerman at CB Robinson at LB and Turner at GK are really the only players I’m confident will be starting against Wales. The rest is up in the air and that’s kind of crazy at this point to have more than half your lineup not completely figured out. Maybe it’s not and I’m overthinking it. I guess it’s a problem a lot of national teams also have with a lot of talent to figure out the best 11.

My starting 11 would be:
Pulisic (LW) Sargent (ST) Weah (RW)
Aaronson (CM) Adams (CDM) McKennie (CM)
Robinson (LB) Ream (CB) Zimmerman (CB) Scally (RB)
Turner (GK)

Main subs I would use since we get 5 this year would be Reyna, Musah, Long, Ferreira, and the 5th would depend on how the game is flowing.

Honestly, you could easily swap Dest and Scally (I may just have a bundesliga bias towards him, but I think he’s a better defender than Dest and Dest can bring an extra spark as a sub that Scally wouldn’t if you need a goal) I think Reyna and Aaronson are pretty interchangeable too as starters so it will be interesting to see what we go with.

Sadio Mane will officially miss the World Cup for Senegal. Never like to see players get hurt right before the World Cup-especially world class players like Mane.

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I'm shocked that a bunch of tacky oil sheiks aren't taking the opportunity to charge fans 30 Euros for a beer.

This Bud's NOT 4 YOU! When do they ban the fans for chanting **** Qatar? nlmnlm Dumbest choice ever to host a World Cup. :banghead:

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I’m sure all the fans will be heartened to know that Bud Zero will still be available.

The military and civilian leadership make a big deal to not drink off base in Qatar. They won’t come and get you out of jail if you get caught until the court process is over in about a week. Of course the country are hypocrites. Every Qatar home I have been in has alcohol.

It's kind of crazy that Russia spent 14.6 billion which was the record back in 2018 on hosting their world Cup, and Qatar is estimated to have spent over 200 billion for this 2022 world cup.

I don't get it - So they are banning alcohol from the stadiums, or outside of the stadiums in the surrounding perimeters?

Or are they saying everything is banned except BudZero?

I do find it odd to keep it to one singular beer, but offering just Beer & wine at the stadium would make the most sense. If people are going to want to hit the hard stuff, they will probably do it before entering the stadium and then keep the buzz up with beer/wine.

Seem like nice people over there in Qatar! Sure this will go off without a hitch.

Exactly. Hopefully they lose out.

Dumb take - you guys must be living under a rock. Our players have no say in the “stripes” being lgbqt on their uniforms. If you actually think these pro athletes are spending their time advocating for shit like this, I really don’t know what to tell you.

This is the corporate and marketing side of the USA national team that is advocating and selling this point of view. I’m not going to bring my political view into this post but I also highly doubt that pulisic or McK are running into the corporate headquarters screaming they want their Jersey changed to rainbow colors. Give me a break.

The American supporter group sucks too. That's why the marketing arm is doing this because it caters to them. A bunch of hipster, woke pussies that think they know soccer. They're the worst soccer supporter group in the world and it's not even close.

At least the Brits have some hardcore hooligans like the Millwall supporters.

God damn it, I forgot that we’ll have to listen to Alexi Lalas for a month.

What the **** am I watching?

Do you think there’s a single player who objects to it?

Nothing with alcohol inside stadium, bud zero is non alcoholic. Outside the stadium, in the fan gathering areas its allowed.

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Terrible defense, especially by the goalkeeper there by Qatar

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lol already rigged

Wow offsides called on the goal

Lol bailed out by a shaky at best var there.

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Wonder how many oilbux that cost?

Bullshit. Ecuador should be up 1-0