Following Friday’s defeat against Costa Rica, the U.S. Men’s National Team faces a vital World Cup qualifier against Honduras on Tuesday night.
The USMNT lineup features seven changes from Friday’s match, including Brad Guzan in goal while Omar Gonzalez and Matt Besler enter at centerback. Jordan Morris and Clint Dempsey join the fray at striker while Kellyn Acosta anchors the midfield and DaMarcus Beasley replaces Jorge Villafana at left back.
Back at it! 🇺🇸 Introducing your #USMNT starting XI for #USAvHON.
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— U.S. Soccer MNT (@USMNT) September 5, 2017
For those looking for some pregame reading, check out the SBI Pregame Tailgate for a look back at the past few days. The match will be shown on beIN Sports USA.
The SBI staff will be offering updates and analysis in the comments section below, so feel free to follow along, and as always, please feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions below.
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Absolutely no midfield play. I sure hope that the young kids get better fast. Williams might help some but MB isnt going to sit as long as Arena is coaching. There just isnt any quality in the middle of the park. Yes the mistake was in the back, but there was no pressure on the Honduras midfielders while in possession. I am discouraged by the next years’ prospects. I hope i am wrong
the game and performance are what they are, but that result, in that environment, earned late and from behind, and all these whiny sour grapes here. LOL Pathetic 🙂
the football gods let the USMNT off the hook today. You would think Dempsey and Morris never played together… both of them absolutely disappeared. Once we saw the long ball wasn’t going to work, we should have dropped it and started putting some passes together. Instead of getting better as the game went on it got worse.
So angry can’t even put it in words. Absolute CRAP!
Not sure we deserved the draw, but at this point you take whatever you can get. And whatever happened to playing out of the back? It seemed like every goal kick ended up as a turnover. Guzan’s distribution was horrible.
Not Guzan fault. Only people moving to ball today were wearing white.
How on earth is there only 3 minutes.
O.K., now win it!!!! And don’t blow it!! Don’t get conservative Buce.
Acosta deserves a lot of credit for that goal. That was a sick strike. Doesn’t change anything Arena needs to be fired.
I think I mentioned how we needed someone hungry and clinical in the box…
damn.
I starting it right here. Arena needs to go. Such poor decisions. Including Pulisic positioning v CR.
Disgusting US doesn’t deserve to go to WC. Klinsman was fired for less #ArenaOut #SunniOut
Also, I could add replace Bradley with Zusi and the comment stands. You simply cannot field this many slow of foot players.
Lol What are you saying?
One day, maybe five years from now, a few American soccer writers will realize, a couple play here or there notwithsstanding, Bradley is done at this level. He is pretty much nothing more than a traffic cone. No one in Concacaf is remotely afraid of Bradley. They know they can glide past him with ease, and they definitely know he couldn’t beat a turtle while carrying the ball.
Arena needs to be fired. Can’t have 2 flat performances like this.
Pulisic totally wasted on the wing.
We are just making it easy for them. Long balls with no desire to win in air or second ball. Honduras is playing ball on ground but we can’t. Not even trying to play out of back. No connection from back to middle. Bad coaching. Bad strategy. Bad players. Don’t deserve to win or go to WC.
How did the US beat this team 6-0? This game is like men vs. boys.
Can’t discredit the atmosphere/climate, and also can’t forget how good Altidore was that day. Dempsey and Pulisic did the damage, but he was a key cog.
How is Guzan still allowed to play when he keeps on kicking the ball out of bounds under no pressure?