The team’s biggest stars seem able to raise its ceiling but not its floor.
: “The book on beating the U.S. has been out for so long that coaches can get it in paperback by now. All they have to do is press and harass the U.S. defenders, clog the center of the field with as many bodies as possible, and wait for the American apparatus to rattle itself apart.”Today you can find 20 copies of the same edition of the book at your local used book store from where it was assigned in coaches’ school.
. The USMNT finished its September series with just two shots on target. You don’t advance through the group stage of the World Cup with those kinds of numbers.That said: Despite what it looked like this past week, the team is not actually stuck in 2019. It is capable of change; in its next game after that Canada loss, the U.S. avenged itself on its northern neighbors 4–1. A Mexico team that was toying with the U.S. in 2019 has markedly not done that in 2021 and 2022.
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