OSF
05-28-2008, 06:10 PM
Today's game at Wembley was arguably the worst game under Bradley and one of the worst for US of A. It's as if Bob had already decided that there was no chance in hell to win so we might as well go and just get some experience!
First and foremost, the most important aspect of the game, midfield play, was in complete control by England. Their all-star midfield comprised of Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham and Hargreaves played against of our, ahem, Beasley, Bradley, Clark and Dempsey! Whoo-hoo, it wouldn't take an Einstein to figure out who dominated the game!
With not much possession and definitely not much forward supplies from the midfield, our two "wonderful" strikers, Johnson and Wolff, had almost no effect whatsoever in the first half. England keeper, David James had zero action until late in second half with two saves, both from our subs; one by Eddie Lewis on the right and the other by Adu's long range shot.
By far our worst performer of the game was Ricardo Clark who appeared completely lost and out-played. He looked like a high school kid out there. Bradley was not much better as they were both just trying to get in England's way for disrruption rather than mounting any kind of offense. This type of team performance would warrant a coach fired in some many countries.
This makes me wonder why does Bradley keep starting players like Wolff and Johnson who had shown no touch and no skills? Clark has shown progressively worse performance in the last three games, I'm not sure he should even be in the WCQ pool any more, let alone be a starter. Tonight's game is vey apparent to me that Bob Bradley has not prepared the team enough to be in a position to win. This USA National team is much worse than the one that Bruce Arena had in the last two WC's. Chastise him all you want, our team without Donovan is a total chaos as evidence by today's performance! Any team that needs a moral boost, such as England, would gladly face this team any day! :angryf:
First and foremost, the most important aspect of the game, midfield play, was in complete control by England. Their all-star midfield comprised of Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham and Hargreaves played against of our, ahem, Beasley, Bradley, Clark and Dempsey! Whoo-hoo, it wouldn't take an Einstein to figure out who dominated the game!
With not much possession and definitely not much forward supplies from the midfield, our two "wonderful" strikers, Johnson and Wolff, had almost no effect whatsoever in the first half. England keeper, David James had zero action until late in second half with two saves, both from our subs; one by Eddie Lewis on the right and the other by Adu's long range shot.
By far our worst performer of the game was Ricardo Clark who appeared completely lost and out-played. He looked like a high school kid out there. Bradley was not much better as they were both just trying to get in England's way for disrruption rather than mounting any kind of offense. This type of team performance would warrant a coach fired in some many countries.
This makes me wonder why does Bradley keep starting players like Wolff and Johnson who had shown no touch and no skills? Clark has shown progressively worse performance in the last three games, I'm not sure he should even be in the WCQ pool any more, let alone be a starter. Tonight's game is vey apparent to me that Bob Bradley has not prepared the team enough to be in a position to win. This USA National team is much worse than the one that Bruce Arena had in the last two WC's. Chastise him all you want, our team without Donovan is a total chaos as evidence by today's performance! Any team that needs a moral boost, such as England, would gladly face this team any day! :angryf: