And now, EPL are trying to keep their players from traveling to Panama on 10/10.
I’d be happy with six points on this break, with two wins at home. Seven is the expected minimum (wins at home, ties on the road). And while it would be nice to come in first and have a high enough ranking to be put into the first drawing pot, just can’t get my hopes high enough with all this traveling and COVID.
Pulisic out? That’s a bummer. Figured he wouldn’t be going to Panama anyway.
Pulisic, Reyna, Pefok, Sargent probably the most notable omissions
Pefok is surprising (I guess you gotta find room for Gaysi), the other 3 not as much.
And McKinnie is back. Hopefully he can keep his horniness in check for the week.
I agree not surprising other than Pefok, just notable.
Pulisic and Reyna are still injured, so that’s why they’re off. Given the way Sargent looked, I’m OK with him being off right now.
Ream, Steffen, Robinson won’t make the trip to Panama. Avoids a 5-day quarantine on returning to England.
This is a 7-point-must break, IMO. Need two wins at home and a tie at least on the road. It’s certainly possible.
Yup. Anything less than 7 points in no beuno.
Ream and Brooks not making the trip across the pond. Not sure if that is a positive or negative.
Zimmerman has been called up. Should be another call up. Not sure if it will be domestic (Sands, Kessler) or Euro based (Miazga, CCV, Scally). I say we bring in Scally and see what the kid has.
Tonight vs Jamaica (Austin) 6:30 CDT ESPN2
Sunday @ Panama 5:00 CDT Paramount+
Wednesday vs Costa Rica (Columbus) 6:00 CDT ESPN2
Everybody in camp seems healthy and has passed Covid tests (Musah had a “not conclusive” test earlier, but was cleared after a second test).
Still determining if Steffen and A Robinson are going to Panama. Sounds like not, but Gregg said England might change their quarantine rules in the next couple days for vaccinated players.
There is 1 unvaxed player and 1 partially vaxed player in camp. It sounds like both of them will not be traveling to Panama.
15 minutes in, and I’m already kind of impressed at all the different chants we’ve got that are nothing more than the letters U-S-A.
US Soccer should pay for VAR to be installed in every country in CONCACAF, just so it can be used in CONCACAF matches.
0-0, HT. Like a broken record, we look really good for 2/3rds of the field but suck ass at getting the ball into the box to create anything. Ball handling got suspect in about the last 10 minutes of the half; gotta clean that shit up. Feels like if we keep at this, we’re going to find a goal somewhere.
Also: this referee is crap, even by CONCACAF standards.
Never in doubt
great run from Musah
Maybe the CONCACAF folks can use one or 2 of those suitcases of money to install cameras and qualify refs in a few countries other than the US and Mexico.
Also agree this ref had blown some calls, mostly for being timid to make potential game altering calls early in a big match
Pepiiiiii
This Pepi kid, … might turn out to be half decent yet.
Weah tearing the left side up. Future looks bright
