CNL FINAL: Canada vs USA - Sunday, June 18th - 8:30 pm ET/5:30 pm PT - Las Vegas

[king1010]

KJ coming for Herdman

[SirBobsaget]

KJ spot on!!! In shambles and not good enough! Need to be angry and mad. Changing personnel changing formations for no reason. In shambles

[Ally McCoist]

You know what's funny? Had we won, the Americans would've made excuses. But we lost? Nah we got outclassed. No excuses from us.  

US fans are toxic as hell. Good night.

[PastPros]

1 minute ago, TOcanadafan said:

Good on KJ for ripping that performance.  They didn’t show up.

We had 64% possession.

Did nothing with it.

[Nello]

Herdman out!

[dyslexic nam]

Jesus - KJ taking some shots.  

[Wasp]

Definitely a frustrating night, but I think we all need to take a breath and zoom out. This is all part of the process. We used to not even sniff these kind of games and were getting smoked by the Honduras's, Panama's, and hell - Haiti's of the region prior to meeting the big dogs of USA/MEX consistently until just a few years ago. Does it sting to lose soundly in the Final? Sure. But these are the kind of games that we can build on and continue to improve.

What this game clearly shows is that we need more games against top tier opposition. The days of destroying minnows should be behind us, and we need to focus on playing as many friendlies as we can against top opposition to get reps playing against teams of the USA's quality.

With a bit of roster turnover, we can bring some fresh young talent on board and continue to build. Let's not get too down or beat up on the boys tonight. Onwards and upwards.

[Corazon]

No one was very good today except for maybe Kone and Vitoria.

[SirBobsaget]

4 minutes ago, BearcatSA said:

Kone looks really promising.  I am very excited for his future.

USA started like 4 players younger than him.

[Vasi]

KJ is coming for everyone. All points are spot on. 

[Approve My Account Pls]

Kone had a great game, the Kone-Eustaquio chemistry looking great for the future, even if Eustaquio didn't have his best game

Stinker from Kennedy, should never have started, Vitoria was so stable once he came in

Davies, David, Larin all had rough nights

Johnston and Laryea were both solid

US took advantage of us when we were sloppy. We had our opportunities but totally wasted them - Larin on the rebound, David passing instead of shooting etc... 

Also holy shit is Balogun gonna be a problem moving forward

But most importantly, we really need to learn how to break down teams that sit back and let us attack. We have no clue how to break down a low block

Oh well, bring on the "B team" for the Gold Cup 

Edited June 19, 2023 by Approve My Account Pls

[king1010]

1 minute ago, PastPros said:

We had 64% possession.

Did nothing with it.

Usa sat back after the 2 goal lead and let us have the ball. 

[VinceA]

Pulisic very classy, was baited into ripping Canada for "kings of CONCACAF" but didn't take that bait and complimentd us.

[Vasi]

Just now, SirBobsaget said:

USA started like 4 players younger than him.

Yes. But the USA are light years ahed. I know this might hurt some of us. But they are setting up to be a world power. They have a good league and a shit tone of money. 

[PastPros]

2 minutes ago, Vasi said:

KJ is coming for everyone. All points are spot on. 

Are they, though?

"We can't keep the ball". We kept the ball.

"Johnston wasn't good but that's not why we lost."

Eustaquio wasn't good either. How many bad individual performances = bad team performance?

Kennedy and Osorio were not up to this level tonight either.

Edited June 19, 2023 by PastPros

[Floortom]

God please dont let me hear this "Kings of concacaf" cringe anytime soon.

[costarg]

10 minutes ago, VinceA said:

I know we're excited about McGraw, Bombito and Heibert but I sort of worry our CB pool will end up being MLS lifers who struggle against better competition.

Zimmerman is pretty solid.

[king1010]

im here for KJ speaking the truth. Calling out herdman for making excuses. “10 extra days of preparation” 

[CCrTFC]

It's like every pass was frantically served as if it were a hot potato. The only weighted pass was seemingly Kone's to Larin. 

[king1010]

1 minute ago, VinceA said:

Pulisic very classy, was baited into ripping Canada for "kings of CONCACAF" but didn't take that bait and complimentd us.

I respect him for that. 

[king1010]

1 minute ago, PastPros said:

Are they, though?

"We can't keep the ball". We kept the ball.

"Johnston wasn't good but that's not why we lost."

Eustaquio wasn't good either. How many bad individual performances = bad team performance?

They are 

[Ansem]

Can we stop with the fucking back 3????

Bring back the fucking 4-4-2 or 4-3-2-1 or 4-2-2-2 or 4-3-3

I'm soooo fucking done with the back 3 and whatever at midfield that can't get quality to our forwards

Stop with this shitttttttt

We are fucking PREDICTABLE 

Edited June 19, 2023 by Ansem

[MauditYvon]

I still don’t understand why our strategy in 1st half was long ball to Laryea. Start Tajon if you wanna do that..

[frmr]

2 minutes ago, PastPros said:

Are they, though?

"We can't keep the ball". We kept the ball.

"Johnston wasn't good but that's not why we lost."

Eustaquio wasn't good either. How many bad individual performances = bad team performance?

Kennedy and Osorio were not up to this level tonight either.

US was giving us possession. We still lost the ball every time we tried to attack.

[mrstepp817]

1 minute ago, costarg said:

Zimmerman is pretty solid.

I never have gotten the USMNT fans hate for Zimmerman, he's limited in some ways but he's always been solid in international duty....if he's your 4th centerback you are doing ok IMO