Not impressed with their defense, but yes, it would take a meltdown of major proportions for them not to qualify....but they won’t last long in the WC without a huge improvement in their back line.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what Klinsmann’s doing. Is the talent pool that bad?
The entire region looks down this cycle. Mexico is struggling, Jamaica lost 2 home matches, etc.
Should be excellent TV viewing next year with all the samba beach bunnies in Brazil next year.
You know, if we played man-on-man defense all over the pitch and simply forgot about offense completely, do you think that back line could possible, I say just possibly, stay goal side of the one player they are assigned to?
We are completely flat-footed on give and goes. Balls over the middle beat us three or four times a game. “But for” the post and terrifically poor shooting on a couple of great opportunities, the score would have been 1-3 Jamaica!
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The defending from set pieces has been, to be kind, shocking, especially against Jamaica.