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Originally Posted by guccilvr
A team shouldn't have to use subs in order to score. This has been going on alot longer than just this cup. Think about it, the tie against Italy gave the US it's <b>FIRST</b> point ever on European Soil. That reeks of inability to score. I don't think it's really the US that played tough, I think the Italians just happend to suck that day.
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Dont underestimate bench scoring. Football is just as much strategy as it is physical. The US doesnt have the caliber of players as some of the other clubs, so a little strategy goes a long way. (Especially since Reyna is not holding his own as a cap)
Johnson should be starting anyway making it uneccesary to bring him in as a sub, but using a strong, physical man up front against a tired defense late in the game is how a possibly inferior team can use the depth of its bench to level the playing field.
And please dont judge World Cup teams by past performances that are 8 years old or more. Look at the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks 8 years ago. You'd be hard pressed to name more than a handful of members on this team that ever saw World Cup play in Europe. How can that past performance be on their head? If anything, it shows the improvement of the team in the past 2 World Cups that they made it deep 4 years ago and held of Italy this year.
Im willing to call game one nerves, inexperience playing as a team and poor leadership by Areana and Reyna and be optomistic about the team's future.