Comments on: Five points to ponder from U.S.-Antigua & Barbuda http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/08/five-points-to-ponder-from-u-s-antigua-barbuda/ Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: soccerknowitall http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/08/five-points-to-ponder-from-u-s-antigua-barbuda/comment-page-1/#comment-2265 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:58:40 +0000 http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/?p=66373#comment-2265 Jk cant coach defence, his overall strategy is to tell his wingbacks to press forward up the pitch. It’s the reason I believe he has stayed with the older guys (Boca, Gouch,Edu,Dolo) in the back area and let them coach themselves. but this game put JK’s ingame tactical awareness and adjustments to the test on defence, and he failed bigtime! Torres should not be playing out of position at leftback when Cameron could use the minutes, all torres did was get injured trying to slide tackle a (A&B) winger at fullspeed coming down the leftflank. Then he moves the heart of our defence (BOCA) wide left, inserts Gouch! who has cost us 4-5 goals in the last two weeks with his big mistakes in the back; of course this leads to a breakdown and the A&B goal.

The other thing JK is gonna have to learn is how to put players and formations on the field against the wide variety of countries the USMNT plays in CONCACAF.. Canada, A &B, parked the bus in the back and dared the US to score. Mexico can carve us up with there speedy, skillful, triangle-give n go/ interplay. the other’s; guat, hon, el sal, pan, crc.. etc are slower less skillful versions of mexico but still can impose there will on USMT at home; So I think it’s baptism by fire for JK in WC qualifying, as his 4-3-3 uptempo, possession, attacking style plan for the USMNT is going to get bogged down in latin america. What will JK’s pregame strategies, ingame tactics, and halftime speeches be then?

the biggest problem with the offense is dempsey/donovan/bradley/gomez are not gelling as a unit, maybe it’s 4 selfish players all wanting the ball and score, or maybe it’s not understanding there rolls per JK’s instructions for them, they’ve had enough time together dating back to wc2010 so im thinking it must be pyschological for the 4 of them. three of which are the man at their club teams when it comes to scoring. maybe a case of the selfish, ineffectiveness, english mentality on the pitch i.e.(lampard,gerrard, rooney)

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