This is important to realize - so much right wing quack shit that entered our society was because the billionaire class who benefit from Trump's Presidency were terrified that Covid would make him lose in 2020 and wanted it to go away (and then denied vaccines in 2021 to try to hurt Biden and Dems)

Pepi doing the Trump dance with Pulisic shows there's not much going on up there either.

Certified starter going forwards then.

He was firing the end of the season with Poch too.

Your best XI imo.

I haven't seen us pass that well in maybe ever, the quick one two touches, the accuracy, the buildup from the back that led to a lot of attacks. We have legit patterns of play that allowed us to attack left right and through the middle. What a turnaround lol

But this was really the first time we got a glimpse into a different US men's team. And maybe what Pochetino envisions going forward.

Now... how repeatable is this? Our backline was still exposed and if Robinson is going to be out of position, whoever attacks us with pace is going to love going after Tim Ream 1v1.

Scally also was tentative to engage in a dribbler, that led to their 2nd goal.

So still lots to sort.

The combo play between Weah, Robinson, Pulisic, or Musah and McKennie.

The geometry on the field where you constantly saw little triangles forming everywhere, in our build up, Robinson was inverting to form a "box 4 in midfield" to give us more bodies to crowd that area

Everyone is going to talk about Pulisic but the stars of that performance to me were Weah (playing on a side I never would have predicted) McKennie & Musah.

And yeah it's one game, I don’t even know how repeatable it is, but it was really great to see constant runs off the ball again

Dem leaders just like consultants, can never fail, it’ll always be someone else's fault they lost winnable elections due to having zero message, and due to lived experiences of people seeing a party that doesn't even fight for the people they claim to represent.

One silver light is

Dest, Gio, Adams, Johnny (subbed off after 8 mins) Richards, Weah, Balogon

Were all missing. That's almost a full XI. So... there is room for growth when they return. It is worrying the bench is nonexistent though

The Guardian has confirmed what a lot of other Gaza journalists have reported on.

Even worse, the few times they did have someone honestly reporting and calling out the bad faith... MSNC canned them.

Shutting Medhi and Ari up.

There's been a lot of talk about our keeper situation but Turner bails us out in basically every game now.

I'm far more concerned about the other positions. Also, Poch's teams have been known to run, the team picked yesterday, couldn’t do that.

Yesterday was a sloppy field and that contributed to things too but... it was sloppy for them too and by min 50 they figured they could press us man to man without a fear of us playing through or behind them to counter. THAT'S A RED FLAG.

Tilman and Aaronson have failed that test every time.

We also desperately lack pace in our Attack when Balogon and Weah aren't available and outside of Cowill? Or maybe Wright? I don't know what we can do to fix that.

He's tried to include Musah in the XI but he's forcing it, and playing Musah out on the wing in a position that doesn't suit him.

Our depth is a major red flag right now.

With no Gio, we have no one we can rely on to playmake and control things under pressure.

But that's it, the negatives outweigh any of that. He's picked a 38 yr old to lead his defense in 3 straight games now, and bc of his immobility it effects how we can play without the ball everywhere else.

Lastly. He's given opportunities to Sargent, Pepi, Vasquez, and Haji Wright...

And Pulisic has enjoyed his football in the 2 games He's featured in...