FSU Ladies play for the National Championship tonight at 5:30PM ET on ESPN2
C'MON YOU SEMINOLES!!!!!!
C'MON YOU SEMINOLES!!!!!!
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Overall I’d say a good year though perhaps not a great year for Americans overseas. I don’t think anyone really blew us away with a huge year. Some guys who we thought would be in the top 23 1 or 2 years ago though seem to have their stock pointed down and headed towards obscurity
Stock up:
Weston McKinnie
Brooks
Weah
Steffan, though somewhat incomplete, second unit for City doesn’t make anyone a scrub
Reyna, appears likely he has a bigger role next year
Tyler Adams
Dest
Up & down/mixed
Pulisic - hard to put him here with the UCL performances but he is judged on a different standard
Musah
Robinson
Stock down:
Hoppe & Sargent - maybe harsh to have them here being young and on bad teams. But I’m not sure either one of them would be poised to move to another top flight club. When you’re on a side that gets relegated and we’re trying to put together a top XI for the next 9 months, that’s a huge hit.
Miazga
Yedlin
Horvath
incomplete
Konrad
Easily the biggest concern going into this Gold Cup is the #9 and Brooks’ CB partner. It’s hard not to give Weah the benefit of the doubt but he hasn’t really played there this season. Nobody has shown us they’re anywhere near the McBride/Dempsey level. There’s a variety of options but none seem all that great, yet.
But when it comes to CB, the cupboard seems really bare right now. If, at any time, Brooks can’t go a full 90 for any reason, I can’t think of any pairing you can live with back there and how you can feel good about ANY WCQ road match. Mex, CRC and Honduras will always be a problem for us down there, but do we feel all that great about not falling behind in Toronto or Kingston on a defensive gaffe or two either
Fairy tale ending for Manchester City and Sergio Aguero today. City put a stamp on their PL Championship with a 5-0 thrashing of Everton. And Aguero comes on in the 2nd half, for his final game at City, and promptly scores twice in 10 minutes to break the record for goals by a player for their PL club. 185.
Takes the record away from United and Rooney. Love it.
Hoppe would not be down for me.
I listed to a lot of the US Soccer podcasts and I had no idea who Hoppe was at the beginning of the year. He had a few really good moments including a really good game last week against a pretty good team
Yedlin played really well for his Turkish club(do not know the name) however I have no idea what level the Turkish league is.
Brooks may be out for the Nations League he has been dealing with a toe injury at the end of the year so the Center Back group maybe a little dicey
No. Entertaining, but there are three examples I can think of better...Most dramatic PK finish in history? 11-10 w/both GK taking penalties.
No. Entertaining, but there are three examples I can think of better...
Kansas City vs Portland double-poster to end it...
Baggio over the bar...
Liverpool’s dramatically finishing off the comeback...
PS- Penalty kicks are a stupid way to find a winner.
That’s why my idea is a three-fold change:I agree with that. The problem is that I'm not sure that there is a better way. When you need to have a winner (can't accept draws) and the game goes through 30 minutes of extra time and still ends in a draw, I'm not sure what else you can do. Can't keep them out on the pitch forever.
That’s why my idea is a three-fold change:
1) Each half of overtime begins with each team being reduced a man, but allowed an extra sub.
2) Corner Kicks in overtime are tabulated, and will force the attack because...
3) If there is no winner after overtime, it goes to Golden Penalties. First one to score wins. Team with most corner kicks goes first.
*If corner kicks are tied after extra time, game goes in 5 minute periods until someone either scores or gets the advantage.
There is no PERFECT system for the reasons you rightly point out. But this is much better. Hell, even the NASL style shootout that MLS first used is vastly superior and more true to the game. No less than Johan Cruyff said so.
I thought of that, but what constitutes a save becomes too subjective. And sure they'll play for corner kicks, but corners lead to goals too. It also forces a bunkering team out of their shell and to get up field. And lastly, even at its worst, it would still be making the play on the field matter more. Penalty kicks (it has rightly been said) is like settling an NBA playoff game with a free throw contest.I don't like that at all. As OT progresses each team would just be aiming to get corner kicks and be less concerned about attacking the goal.
If we went with that, which I'm not sure I like I would adjust it to be "Saves are tabulated and the team with the most saves goes 2nd." And I'm not sure I even like that either but I think it would be better than having teams try to rack up corner kicks.
I thought of that, but what constitutes a save becomes too subjective. And sure they'll play for corner kicks, but corners lead to goals too. It also forces a bunkering team out of their shell and to get up field. And lastly, even at its worst, it would still be making the play on the field matter more. Penalty kicks (it has rightly been said) is like settling an NBA playoff game with a free throw contest.
You're going to have all sorts of problems sorting out if the shot was "on goal" from the angle, or whether it was a cross sometimes, also velocity of the ball, etc. Just trust me, its much more difficult to determine than you might first think.Saves arn't really that subjective.
Shots on Goal - goals scored = saves
You're going to have all sorts of problems sorting out if the shot was "on goal" from the angle, or whether it was a cross sometimes, also velocity of the ball, etc. Just trust me, its much more difficult to determine than you might first think.
My solution doesn’t “decide” by the stat. It decides the first penalty. It’s still settled by a score or not a score.Using a stat as a tiebreaker is even worse than the current penalty shootout. In my estimation, the rest of the Champions League KO stage does well with away goals and maximizes the drama above the way penalties do. 2019 was so special because it was only a win/lose situation, the final minutes left no possibility of a penalty shootout. How to best duplicate that for a single knockout match? Hold the penalty shootout at the beginning of the match. That guarantees two teams aren't kicking the ball around in the last 5 minutes and settling for that.
I'm guessing that was an expensive ticket.Just got tix to see Arsenal play Inter in Orlando, in July!
It wasn’t that bad really…$70. Not cheap but I was preparing for worse.I'm guessing that was an expensive ticket.
It wasn’t that bad really…$70. Not cheap but I was preparing for worse.
In fairness, I did buy the cheapest ones available. LOLThat is much less than I was expecting.
Lame!I see they made watching tonight USA v Honduras match as hard as possible to watch. CBS Sport Network, Paramount +, Univision and something called TUDN which I don't believe YouTube TV has.
I see they made watching tonight USA v Honduras match as hard as possible to watch. CBS Sport Network, Paramount +, Univision and something called TUDN which I don't believe YouTube TV has.
??? CBS Sports Network is on YouTube TV.Lame!
I'll double check, I don't remember it being on there??? CBS Sports Network is on YouTube TV.
2 things working against us: