Not to mention that players were included in the roster who knew the system at the expense of more talented options. This may have cost the USA at the World Cup where there was little rotation and key players like Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie looked like they were struggling for fitness by the final game against Holland. City needs not only starters who can fill the role, but also depth players that can step in to get the best results. Manchester City has to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get the top players to get it to work.
It’s a really difficult system to play and even the best players in the world struggle with it. It’s also a system that prioritized possession and specifies movement patterns at the expense of player expression and freedom.
It seemed like he more fell into the same path that Jurgen Klinsmann took when he had similar aims and applied tactics that the team was not talented enough to play and that he wasn’t good enough to coach. His hope was that this idea would change how the world looked at American soccer. Good ole American freedom.īerhalter had a very specific idea of how he wanted the team to play and look. While the sample size is minuscule and the opposition was not top class, the games did provide a factor that the team seemed to be lacking.
As the first competitive games the USMNT played without Gregg Berhalter as manager have finished, there was a noted difference in how the team performed under manager Anthony Hudson.
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