Southgate will neuter that team

Got it.

I supposed the last-minute drop by Captain America didn't help. I know some of the ESPN talking heads some weeks back were wondering if Gregg's bending over backwards to keep Pepi on the squad.

EDIT: Fixed my second sentence.

It's a 26-man roster.

Leave the MLS wingers home for Pefok.

He's so far down into the MLS/USSF corruption cycle, it will never change. The only time that trend was bucked was when Klinnsman was in charge. And we all know how well the USSF like him calling his shots


The only irony is that for a relationship to be symbiotic, at least one of the symbiots have to gain something, which does not seem to be the case here. In the USSF/MLS union, it is more like Ugolino in Dante, both are damned so long as they are beholden to one another so blasphemously.

and that continues.

Gregg got out-coached in the first half, waiting to adjust at halftime. Japan's pressure was not unexpected was it?

Weston and Luca didn't look good. Long - yuck.

I went in thinking "Gregg is just tweaking final players - this will be fine". This isn't fine. We probably aren't going to get out of the group.

For the first 35-40 minutes of the game, I'm not sure there was a single time he got the ball that didn't result in an immediate giveaway.

Dest, McKennie and Aaronson weren't any great shakes, but it must've been extremely limiting for them that the pivot player in their passing scheme on that side was a guaranteed turnover.

I only saw a little of the game but I wasn't aware this is the last USMNT game to be covered by ESPN under all current contracts for years to come.

After their fantastic CL coverage.