PSV manager Peter Bosz is expected to have Malik Tillman back available for action this weekend.
Bosz confirmed that Tillman could feature in PSV’s return to Eredivisie play against Ajax on Sunday. The U.S. men’s national team midfielder returned to training earlier this month after being sidelined since early-February due to an ankle injury.
“Malik is ready and hungry, Bosz told reporters Friday. “Whether he starts on the bench or in the lineup, you’ll see on Sunday.”
Tillman has remained a consistent player for PSV this season, scoring 11 goals and adding six assists in 26 appearances.
The USMNT midfielder missed out on international duty this month due to his injury and lack of fitness.
PSV has certainly missed Tillman’s production after dropping out of the top spot in the Eredivisie table.
A victory on Sunday would trim PSV’s deficit to three points.
Johnny99,
“Vacqui – getting called for your national team is never, or should never, be considered punishment. It’s an honor.”
Of course. That does not change the fact that a lot of you want to punish our euros for sucking and embarrassing the USMNT. Y’all think they will make up for that by winning the Gold Cup and along the way, developing some needed cohesion for the World Cup. Oh, and we need to prevent Mexico from winning it and being able to lord it over us.
I question just how much cohesion the USMNT will develop by sending whatever will be available of the A team to the Gold Cup. I think the risk of injury and the disruption to the players is way too high for several the players and is very much cutting off your nose to spite your face. And actually, I’m really only talking about a few players, notably Jedi, Tyler and Pulisic. Jedi we know about. It was not that long ago that both Tyler and CP were said to be made of glass. Lately they seem to be pretty good about managing their health. But there are limits and I doubt either one originally planned to go to the Gold Cup.
And by disruption I’m talking about pre-season for our euros begins in August. And that preseason is very important if you want to have a good start to the season.
Talk all you want about pride and patriotism and players getting paid obscene amounts of money. NONE of that changes the fact that players are not cyborgs. Their human bodies have limits that all the pride, aggression, intelligence and patriotism in the world can’t alter.
“Our guys weren’t “gassed”, they were just flat. ”
Explain the difference?
“Canada didn’t look gassed, and a lot of their guys play in Europe. Argentina definitely didn’t look gassed when they smoked Brazil the other day, and their guys play in Europe. Raul Jimenez plays in the Premier League and looked pretty good in the Nations League; why wasn’t he gassed?”
Because Raul Jimenez is an outlier and is currently playing at a level above anyone in the USMNT player pool. He’s 33. He knows he’s lucky to be alive and lucky to be playing at this level at this time. It’s his last roundup and he’s taking advantage of it. The USMNT has no one like him. Maybe that’s why.
W/o him Mexico would be a lot less than what they are now. He has almost single handedly w/ the great assistance of Aguirre, revived a moribund Mexico. He’s doing what you all expect Pulisic to do but has not done. I don’t see that you can compare Mexico’s situation to the USMNT’s. They have home field advantage anywhere in California with real supporters and far lower expectations.
You’re comparing us to Canada and Argentina? If you are saying the Canadians and the Argentinians are better players, I can buy that. But I don’t think you can support that conclusion just based on this NL alone. You’re going to need a bigger sample size.
Canada was supposed to win this thing. Davies blew out his fucking knee and is done for the season. Is that good for Canada’s WC chances? Imagine if Pulisic blows out his knee in the Gold Cup. Oh, and they let the feckless USMNT attack score on them. I bet Panama would have beaten them. I wouldn’t say that Canada had a great NL.
And Argentina? Seriously? There are very few national teams that can practice true squad rotation. Argentina is one of them. The USMNT is not. By the way, even my Brazilian friends tell me the current edition of Brazil sucks.
CP, Musah, Weston and Weah have all been heavily involved in a lot of serious high-pressure games for their clubs lately. So has Davies and guess who blew out his knee?
From the first few minutes of the Panama game, it was clear to me that our Italians were not sharp and it never got better. I call it one thing; you call it another but in the end it’s all the same. They sucked.
“In a different year, when there wasn’t a new coach who wasn’t familiar with the player pool, when we weren’t a year out from the World Cup on home soil, when we had lots of competitive games to play between now and the World Cup, I could see the coach calling in a B team for the Gold Cup. But that’s not the situation we’re in.”
The situation we are in is that Pochettino does not know his best 11 and the Gold Cup is the last “competitive” tournament that we are scheduled for prior to WC roster decision day.
I strongly suspect that, at best, we will only be able to field a skeletonized version of the A team in the Gold Cup finals. So, I question how valuable that will ultimately prove to be and feel that the possibility of injury and disruption to the early part of a player’s 2025-2026 season is very high.
We’ll see.
I’ll just address the difference between being “gassed” and “flat”, since you asked me to do so.
Gassed, which was a word you used, to me means the players were physically tired. Flat means the players weren’t sharp, weren’t intense, weren’t competitive enough. I think the question you really want to ask is why were they flat. And my answer is, I don’t know exactly. Maybe they were complacent, thinking they would beat Panama with something less than 100% effort. Maybe they’re believing the hype, that they are great just by stepping onto the field, and they don’t actually have to work hard while on it. Maybe they feel too secure in their place, believing that their spot on the national team is secure no matter how good or bad they look while on it. Maybe they were flat because they’re not understanding what Poch wants out of them. I don’t know.
What I do know, however, is that the flatness they showed was not due to being “gassed”. They weren’t any more “gassed” than the Panamanians and Canadians who beat them. They weren’t any more “gassed” than any national team that has a lot of players playing Europe, who play a lot of games and who have to take a long flight back home to play with the national team.
Regarding the rest of your post, I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Now if only Pepi can return to play.
Very unlikely Pepi would be available until fall, Netherlands has strict privacy laws which is way PSV is very vague. Ricardo had surgery in LA last month on a rumored torn meniscus. Full recovery likely would stretch into July.
lets go kid!!!
Nice. Gold cup squad looking better as the days go by. Tillman, Dest, Balogun, Wright all healthy now. Hopefully Cardoso will be good as well.
2tone,
1. FIFA world club cup runs at the same time. This means many of our best won’t be available.
2.The Gold Cup is scheduled at a bad time for our Euros. By then most of them will be out of game shape and would need to get back into shape. And if any of the ones who played in the NL go to the Gold Cup, those guys will have no real off season break. One of the big lessons of the NL is that we need our guys ( Like Jedi, Dest, Flo, Pepi, Malik, Wright, and Johnny, ) healthy and playing. And Gio and Matt need to find more playing time somewhere. I would not risk any of them in the Gold Cup.
If they can, those nine guys need to approach August and preseason with their clubs in the best shape mentally and physically as possible,
If just those 9 guys can be doing well in the fall of 2025, the USMNT will be a lot better off.
I suspect you will see some version of Camp Cupcake the Sequel. Given how Cupcake turned out, maybe they get lucky again.
So after what you saw in NL you think we can afford to let any player that are not involved with the CWC sit out the GC out of fear of fatigue? We don’t have the luxury to not have these players playing together as much as possible, and in a tournament capacity with something on the line(the GC is for a trophy). It’d be criminal not to call in as many “A” teamers as possible for something with stakes, and considering there is no wcq, playing friendlies in the confines of the US is not going to cut it imo.
I don’t know how anyone could watch that embarrassment and make the point that players need rest. Players are paid to play, its clear that Poch needs to work with them as much as possible, and the GC is a FIFA sanctioned event so they need to be there, period. Obviously those that are working on transfers over the summer could be affected and not called up, and that’s fine, but I fail to see how using nothing but MLSers bc our Euros could be out of shape
Ronnie,
I get the embarrassment.
But a good showing or even winning the Gold Cup wins you shit.
And we won’t have a choice about guys like Pulisic, Weah, Weston, Adams. No choice. FIFA World Club Cup will make that happen.
Pepi won’t be recovered by then. Wright, Dest and Malik are just coming back.
So whatever you put out there, it won’t be close to any sane person’s version of an A team.
You won’t get the advantages of our probable World Cup team developing more cohesion by playing together.
Besides, if you can put the Cupcake team they could probably win the fucking thing.
Dest, Jedi, Pepi, Flo, Johnny injured. Gio, Turner, lacking playing time.
If those injured guys were there and Gio and Matt had gotten more PT do really think the NL would have been the embarrassment that it was?
I don’t. Injuries matter, especially to teams that have no real depth.
Finally the Gold Cup has never been a good predictor of how a team will do in the World Cup.
Vacqui – we’ll be using our best team in the Gold Cup. The only players who won’t be available because of the Club World Cup are McKennie and Weah, and Reyna if he’s still with Dortmund.
Poch has very little time with the team before the World Cup. The Gold Cup will give him a chance to work with his best team, for an extended period of time. He’s bringing all the big guns in.
Apparently they said on the Univision broadcast that USSF was planning on using a MLS heavy roster at the GC this summer. What does that mean 50%, 75%, 90%, who knows?
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I think guys like Balo, Dest, Paredes, Haji, etc… that have been injured and not played under Poch at least have to come for the friendlies even if you don’t keep them the whole month.
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If you go with a roster similar to 2023, that included Euro based players Turner, Mihailovic (euro at the time), Busio, Reynolds, and Gaga, here’s what it could look like. Remember no Seattle either.
GK: Slonina, Schulte, Steffen
FB: Tolkin, D. Jones, Reynolds, Cannon, Lennon or Moore(?)
CB: M, Robinson, Zawadzki, Ream, Zimmerman, Banks
MF: Bassett, P, Aaronson, Luna, Luca, Eneli, McGlynn
Att: Agyemang, Gutierrez, Arfsten, Mihailovic, C. Campbell (if BvB don’t take him), Vazquez
I’m sure I forgot someone.
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I don’t think Mexico or Canada will bring full rosters, obviously Davies is out for 6-9 months. I doubt you see Giminez and Jimenez or Edson Alvarez either. Panama will probably be the favorite. We shall see.
johnny 99
“The Gold Cup will give him a chance to work with his best team, for an extended period of time. He’s bringing all the big guns in.”
I get it, Everyone wants to punish the A teams guys like CP and Musah for sucking. One reason they sucked at the NL was that CP, Musah, Weston and Weah looked totally gassed. So now you want to take away two weeks or so of their break time.
Makes perfect sense. That’s called beating a dead horse to kill it.
In the best of times the Gold Cup is a piece of shit competition. And you want to participate with a team made up of guys who are mostly not in game shape, or just recovering? They’d be good enough anyway but why not give the meritorious Cupcakers a shot? I’d say they have as good if not a better shot than our Euros, especially if they have a couple of ringers like Dest, Wright and Malik.
I’m more interested in showing well in the World Cup.
I think if he brings in Pulisic, Musah, Jedi and Adams the risk of injury, either at the Gold Cup or early in their season is high. If any of those players get hurt, I don’t care what happens in the Gold Cup it wasn’t worth it.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that we looked so bad at the NL in great part because we were missing a lot of injured players. So now y’all want to risk hurting more of them, even closer to the World Cup.
1. I’m not a doctor but when a seemingly long time invincible energizer bunny and hard driver like Jedi breaks down with something that sounds like tendinitis it makes you wonder about overuse. He came back just recently for the FA cup loss to Crystal Palace and played for an hour and did not look good. You saw how much they missed him in the NL. No way I risk him in the Gold Cup.
2. Gio and Matt Turner really need to get new clubs and should be focused on getting acclimated to their new clubs because their limited PT is starting to show.
3. Johnny should be getting back by then but is also subject to heavy transfer interest from some big teams so he may well be tied up at that point. Same for Josh.
3. Flo is just getting back but Mika and Minamoto are scoring a lot and , if I were him I might want to secure my day job a little better.
4. Dest, Wright and Malik out for so long, could maybe use the playing time.
As far as I’m concerned, that means the closest you could come to an A team is CP. Yunus, Tyler, Dest, Wright, Malik and Scally.
For me that’s big time risk for minimal gain.
Vacqui – getting called for your national team is never, or should never, be considered punishment. It’s an honor.
Our guys weren’t “gassed”, they were just flat. Canada didn’t look gassed, and a lot of their guys play in Europe. Argentina definitely didn’t look gassed when they smoked Brazil the other day, and their guys play in Europe. Raul Jimenez plays in the Premier League and looked pretty good in the Nations League; why wasn’t he gassed? Don’t make excuses for our guys; they weren’t gassed, they just played poorly.
You want to complain about there being too many games, I actually agree with you on that. Get FIFA, CONCACAF, UEFA, whoever to schedule fewer competitions. I could live without the Nations League. But we have it, and we have the Gold Cup. And we sucked last week, so I feel pretty confident that Poch is going to call up the best players that are available for the Gold Cup. It would be typical for their clubs to give them extra time off after the Gold Cup before they have to start the next club season, to help with fatigue..
In a different year, when there wasn’t a new coach who wasn’t familiar with the player pool, when we weren’t a year out from the World Cup on home soil, when we had lots of competitive games to play between now and the World Cup, I could see the coach calling in a B team for the Gold Cup. But that’s not the situation we’re in.