Told you that the CB play would be terrible and when the CB play is terrible the midfield play suffers in Gregg’s system. Zimmerman hasn’t been good in the MLS this year either but Long was atrocious. That was a complete mess which I think is actually a good thing because it shows Gregg how awful his selections were but GB may be too stubborn to admit it.
I don’t care if it’s two months from the WC, play your best players, even if they haven’t featured heavily in the side during qualifying. We have central defenders starting and playing big minutes in the English, French Belgian, Scottish, and Portguese top flights and he starts two average, at best, CBs from the MLS. John Brooks and Benfica just beat Juventus in CL play. Carter-Vickers in playing terrific soccer for Celtic. McKenzie looked night and day better next to Zimmerman than Long did. We don’t have to trot out such a shitty CB pair, we can and should do better.
It’s a complete f***ing joke that Berhalter is such an asshole about this and he’s going to tank their chances at the WC. He honestly has me believing in the conspiracy theory that the USSF mandates a certain percentage of rostered and starting players must be from the MLS because it’s impossible to believe that a guy who has been around as long as GB has can honestly think Long, Arriola, and Morris are NT quality. So frustrating.
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