If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, what is Bob Bradley?

Here’s what the BBC had to say about us,

“The constant sound of horn-blowing supporters aptly rang around the stadium as Brazil orchestrated a cavalry charge that the USA were powerless to resist, offering defensive naivety and ineptitude in possession in return.”

and

“USA were their own worst enemy in conceding the second goal as Rangers’ DeMarcus Beasley miscontrolled a corner, allowing a rapid Brazil counter-attack that passed speedily from Kaka to Ramirez and finally to Robinho unmarked in the box to side-foot home with ease.”

Pretty embarrassing! Maybe the US should get beat by Brazil, but embarrassed, that’s too much that time should have passed by now.

Wake up US Soccer, the time for action is right now!

While I agree that Donovan is a good player, unless he changes his professional path, he is the past. If he’s our best its not good enough. IMHO his service on free kicks has been shockingly bad especially considering how important set pieces are to the US. We never score from run of play.

I agree that Dempsey is tired, and if he is he needs to sit or only come in as an impact sub. If that’s the problem than Bradley is committing malpractice as a coach.

We’ll see in about 2 hours how it all works out.

I mostly agree with both of you. I don’t think Donovan is a lost cause he is only 27 and for better or for worse our best player at the moment. Point is we know this. We don’t need to give him experience. Let someone else get some PT and experience. We’re gonna get our clocks cleaned anyway in this meaningless tourny. Use it to develop a style of play and get our younger players some experience attempting to play positive soccer. Who cares if we lose 5-0, means nada. I agree Torres should be on the field at every opportunity. The few times I’ve had an opportunity to see him he showed me he has what it takes. Get him more PT. It’s frustrating to me that this kid is missing out on this valuable experience. He is capable of keeping possession and from my observations he actually attempts to make a positive pass every now and then. Bob Bradley continues to rely on defensive minded players and negative tactics and while this may be the way to proceed at the moment in WCQ at all other times we should be working on developing a positive possession based game building up the attack from the back and getting the younger players in these games and working on playing this way. Otherwise our immediate future is gonna be just more of the same. Long ball to “target” guy, lose possession or one pass to the one guy who got forward to help and then lose possession. It is really pathetic to watch.