By CWBush - 6 Jun 2010 12:36 AM
Can Kennedy dribble or shoot with his boots? Maybe it's just because he's basically up there on his own, but he looked lost when the ball wasn't to his head.
Valeri looked great, whilst Grella was guilty of plenty of stupidity. The lack of strikers in the squad worries me though. Griffiths and McDonald should have been there, and maybe somebody with some creativity in the midfield.
On the plus side, having to actually chase a game seemed to do wonders for our attack. We only nabbed the one goal - but we created a lot more opportunities than I'd grown used to. Our defense was shocking, but at least we looked like we were trying to create goals rather than just sitting back and waiting to grab them on the counter.
A wake up call. Hopefully it's given Verbeek a better idea of who should start.
What do you think about the FourFourTwo article USA Defeat Socceroos?
AUSTRALIA'S preparations for the World Cup hit a snag after slumping to a 3-1 loss to the United States in Ruimsig.
Have your say.
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By socceroossupporter - 7 Jun 2010 1:23 PM
sydneycroatia58 wrote:Wear my IQ on my back wrote:What's all this pessimism? We gifted them a goal, Bresc and Kennedy missed point blank, we had twice as many shots, and much more possession, and 10-3 in corners. One gifted goal to them, one late in the game when we were naturally going forward too much. To repeat - nine times out of ten we would have won the game. Pretty convinient how you also forget to mention how they missed an open goal and had a goal disallowed that should have been given.
10 corners to 3. Domination of possession.
As opposed to a missed open goal and a goal disallowed due to (According to you) an offside that wasn't there.
You can either see the positives or the negatives.
I prefer seeing the positives, as complaining about it will achieve nothing... only anger and frustration.
Pim will be gone after the World Cup, he will not change his strategy at this point and complaining about it will do you no good now.
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