Decisive if somewhat underwhelming victory. We got three points and are on to Panama, a much more serious opponent, but still one we need to beat. If we take care of business there, we'll be through to the quarters as we'd all hoped. Given that we played well and won clearly, I'm not too hung up on the scoreline not being more impressive.
The US dominated the match I watched. Need to finish better, but I thought the biggest problem was Richards and Ream’s passing. We won’t have many scoring chances to finish if that doesn’t improve quickly.
Good first game overall. Lots of almosts. Pepsi, like dude enough enough, tired of it. I thought Weah had his moments. Reyna was very good. Pulisic carried as usual. Dest is missing clearly on the right side imo.
Played well but this is one of the weakest if not the weakest side of the tournament. Again, yes the boys played well but they need to put those opportunities in the back of the net. 2-0 is underwhelming for the amount of work they did.
Panama will be more of a challenge so we’ll see what happens , but should be a win. Uruguay will be the real test.
Side note Gregg still needs a marquee win and what scares me is that he is still looking for it 5 years into his tenure… hopefully this will be it. (Yes Gregg has beaten Mexico non-stop but against arguably the weakest Mexican teams fielded)
When the US drove forward with the ball, they were unstoppable and when we pressed BOL turned it over easily, as a 84th ranked team should.
at the same time, we should have buried them - we were too cute for most of the match. Passes and crosses were horribly wasteful. Poor little flicks over dmen when a thru ball would have been perfect. And the set pieces were total stink.
Sorry.. Pepi lovers - he is what he is. He's not world class and he will hit the ball right at the keeper. Better strikers don't do that. Darwin Nunez is the same way when he isn't flubbing the shot.
I dont want to see Reyna play defense.. I want to see him carve up the BOL defense.
Weah should not be wasted as a decoy on a corner kick. So stupid.
I will take the win, but I see nothing different than the same Berhalter ball before he was fired. When the US is knocked out in the first knockout game, will Greg be canned? I hope so cause I dont want to watch the WC with this guy as manager.
With these reactions, we might as well *just fade into Bolivian*.
Seriously though, the match wasn’t close. We had like 20 shots and 60% possession. Yes we need to put them in the back of the net, but nothing wrong with dos a cero.
Bolivia sucks. Wake me up when/if we lay an egg with Uruguay, Brazil or Argentina.
A few things to take away from this match. Yes we won. But it should have been more dominant. This is by far the worst team in Bolivia. We were making a lot of mistakes that better opposition would capitalize on…
2-0 is a win but if I were to tell you an 11th world ranked fifa team played against a 84th ranked team, you expect a W.
Sorry, I’m being difficult for no reason.
I get it, the performance wasn’t great. This team has showed time and time again that we play to our opponents level. So I’m confident we’ll show up against Uruguay just like we did Brazil.
And all that matters is survive and advance. Just get out of group and 3 points here goes a long way towards that.
Born and raised in England.
His father was also English but lived in the US as a child and got citizenship so he was US/England (and Jamaica) eligible.
We had the lowest amount of goals against Bolivia, in comparison to any quality opposition they've recently had. Quite worrying, especially with the mistakes in the back.
+3 points and that’s all that really matters. Looked really dangerous at times. Felt like Richards and Ream were poor playing out the back. Just need to finish some of those chances
Could have, just as other teams likely could have. I'm sure they had other shots on goal too. However, other good teams actually did get 3-5 goals on Bolivia, and we made a ton of mistakes.
The mistakes we made will be punished in a much harsher fashion against Uruguay. Tonight, we played like we did against Colombia. Fortunately, Bolivia is much worse.
This should have been a W…Bolivia is bad…we won’t get that much time and space against Uruguay. Should have been 6-0. Not getting too amped up after this one.
I think The Gun should have gotten the full 90. Not sure why you take off a striker who scored, had one called off and starting to play himself into the game. Let the man cook.
It was tho.
Pulisic took the short corner to Weah - Weah passed it back to him and he scored.
Ironically I have Pulisic on my TV right now (TUDN) explaining how they drew up that goal *with the set piece coach* 🤣
It’s just really funny that while you’re telling me it wasn’t a set piece Pulisic is literally on my screen telling me it was.
It’s still not considered a set piece goal on any stats/metrics.
I understand what you’re saying. We have been very un-threatening on set pieces though.
Alexis said Reyna was invisible 🫥— set up the goal , made a huge stop on defense, and drew two red cards. Didn’t do anything super dumb other than the behind the back flick that only cost a throw. Not sure what he wants from him while he’s not playing a 10 and not even the highest Mid.
I really hope we can manage to capitalize in the final third.
We won't have as many chances as we did tonight, and I cannot even imagine maintaining our composure and not turning the ball over under press (Uruguay), but 3 points is 3 points and that's what's most important
Glad we got the 3 points but scoring 2 goals and our CBs and MF looking especially vulnerable against the worst team in South America is not encouraging with Uruguay and potentially Brazil/Colombia waiting on the wings. Also our strikers are not good.
I'm in NJ and it was sweltering today just going out to lunch with a friend. Can't even imagine playing 90 mins in a competitive match today... in freaken Texas 😯
This game in a nutshell : Two moments of brilliance by two brilliant players and an overall awful performance by the team. Ugliest 2-0 score. Don’t get me started on Berholter but he is not the guy. We have 2 years to make changes…
xG of 2.32-0.13,
8 shots on goal,
5 more blocked shots;
I swear it’s like y’all don’t watch the game. No matter what happens you have the same comment cued up.
There was some spotty finishing (especially from Pepi) but the idea they weren’t consistently creating is simply not true
What's the cheapest way to watch the rest of the tournament? I've been staying somewhere with the right cable access, but I won't have it when I get home. Is there a cheap option? Or is it just Fubo?
If you have T-Mobile for cell phone service you can get a year of Vix premium for free which includes all the Euros and Copa America games (in Spanish).
Gianni Vio is the set piece coach. They mentioned it multiple times tonight.
Pulisic played a rocket to Musah and he couldn't do much. This has nothing to do with Berhalter, as much as your sheep brain tells you otherwise.
What is there to blame? We won our first match in major international tournament. We dominated and sure we could have won by 5 or 6 but ultimately we got the job done decidedly
I still have faith in Pepi as our future starting striker, but it sure as hell ain’t starting tonight. Feel really bad for him at this point. Like 3-4 solid missed chances
Strikers miss chances. For me, being in the right spot and contributing to the attack are more important.
It'll be a bit before he presses balogun, but I like what I'm seeing.
Decisive if somewhat underwhelming victory. We got three points and are on to Panama, a much more serious opponent, but still one we need to beat. If we take care of business there, we'll be through to the quarters as we'd all hoped. Given that we played well and won clearly, I'm not too hung up on the scoreline not being more impressive.
Nice
The US dominated the match I watched. Need to finish better, but I thought the biggest problem was Richards and Ream’s passing. We won’t have many scoring chances to finish if that doesn’t improve quickly.
Good first game overall. Lots of almosts. Pepsi, like dude enough enough, tired of it. I thought Weah had his moments. Reyna was very good. Pulisic carried as usual. Dest is missing clearly on the right side imo.
Played well but this is one of the weakest if not the weakest side of the tournament. Again, yes the boys played well but they need to put those opportunities in the back of the net. 2-0 is underwhelming for the amount of work they did. Panama will be more of a challenge so we’ll see what happens , but should be a win. Uruguay will be the real test. Side note Gregg still needs a marquee win and what scares me is that he is still looking for it 5 years into his tenure… hopefully this will be it. (Yes Gregg has beaten Mexico non-stop but against arguably the weakest Mexican teams fielded)
Agentina beat Canada 2-0. Cool your jets
Canada is far better than Bolivia though
And Argentina is far better than us. The difference between the two matchups is fairly close.
Argentina are defending WC champs
Yeah you’re right they have absolutely nothing to prove because they know they can win late in tournaments
I didn't know the game was today. I take 2 to 0 but you played a 90 minutes over 5 to 0 but you looked like shit.
When the US drove forward with the ball, they were unstoppable and when we pressed BOL turned it over easily, as a 84th ranked team should. at the same time, we should have buried them - we were too cute for most of the match. Passes and crosses were horribly wasteful. Poor little flicks over dmen when a thru ball would have been perfect. And the set pieces were total stink. Sorry.. Pepi lovers - he is what he is. He's not world class and he will hit the ball right at the keeper. Better strikers don't do that. Darwin Nunez is the same way when he isn't flubbing the shot. I dont want to see Reyna play defense.. I want to see him carve up the BOL defense. Weah should not be wasted as a decoy on a corner kick. So stupid. I will take the win, but I see nothing different than the same Berhalter ball before he was fired. When the US is knocked out in the first knockout game, will Greg be canned? I hope so cause I dont want to watch the WC with this guy as manager.
With these reactions, we might as well *just fade into Bolivian*. Seriously though, the match wasn’t close. We had like 20 shots and 60% possession. Yes we need to put them in the back of the net, but nothing wrong with dos a cero. Bolivia sucks. Wake me up when/if we lay an egg with Uruguay, Brazil or Argentina.
A few things to take away from this match. Yes we won. But it should have been more dominant. This is by far the worst team in Bolivia. We were making a lot of mistakes that better opposition would capitalize on… 2-0 is a win but if I were to tell you an 11th world ranked fifa team played against a 84th ranked team, you expect a W.
I think it’s actually the best team in Bolivia rn…
If you’re talking about rankings no….
What other national team is in Bolivia?
I did not mean it is “in” Bolivia.. I meant Bolivia being is the worst team in competition currently
I know I was just kidding 😊
People being bummed that we didn’t win by more kind of have a point since goal differential could be the tiebreaker between us and Uruguay
god this thread is obnoxious
The fox coverage seems really negative. Yes we should have scored more but I thought we played good 🤷
typicaly usmnt thread, people mad when you win.
We only won by 2 and it took 180 seconds to score. GGG out! /s
Wait, we won the game right?
Yeah. Should've scored more tho.
There’s another LilDuck this makes me happy
My brother in quack
If we scored more goals, would we have gotten more points?
Naw just a larger advantage on goal differential. The boys did well, keeper was working overtime for Bolivia.
Sorry, I’m being difficult for no reason. I get it, the performance wasn’t great. This team has showed time and time again that we play to our opponents level. So I’m confident we’ll show up against Uruguay just like we did Brazil. And all that matters is survive and advance. Just get out of group and 3 points here goes a long way towards that.
Sounds like Antonee picked up an English accent.
Born and raised in England. His father was also English but lived in the US as a child and got citizenship so he was US/England (and Jamaica) eligible.
Man, I'm stupid, I really thought he and Miles were brothers lmao.
They do have the same hair 🤷♂️ Or at least used to until Jedi dyed it
I always thought they looked similar.
He grew up there
Ah I didn't know that.
We had the lowest amount of goals against Bolivia, in comparison to any quality opposition they've recently had. Quite worrying, especially with the mistakes in the back.
Nope, outside of a Brazil drubbing, teams are scoring 0-3 goals against them: https://www.espn.com/soccer/team/results/_/id/204/bol
Agreed, and we scored 2.
+3 points and that’s all that really matters. Looked really dangerous at times. Felt like Richards and Ream were poor playing out the back. Just need to finish some of those chances
Yeah Richards had some bonehead passes that made me groan.
Uruguay and Colombia only put three past them. We could have had 3,4,5 goals tonight too.
Could have, just as other teams likely could have. I'm sure they had other shots on goal too. However, other good teams actually did get 3-5 goals on Bolivia, and we made a ton of mistakes.
Sorry for the comments. I'll refrain from commenting in the future.
that’d probably be best
I appreciate the kind words on the way out. Have a good night.
any time
Didn't their recent quality opposition only put 3 by them?
3-5, depending upon the game you look at from Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.
They've had 1 game in the past year, where they lost by more than 3.
The mistakes we made will be punished in a much harsher fashion against Uruguay. Tonight, we played like we did against Colombia. Fortunately, Bolivia is much worse.
This should have been a W…Bolivia is bad…we won’t get that much time and space against Uruguay. Should have been 6-0. Not getting too amped up after this one.
We won tho
Did what we needed too. Need to be more clinical and minimize defensive mistakes in the next games
Pepi should start Balogun slurpers seething
I think The Gun should have gotten the full 90. Not sure why you take off a striker who scored, had one called off and starting to play himself into the game. Let the man cook.
Why? Cause pepi shot directly at keeper and Balagun scored a goal? What?
By the time he hit him on the rebound, it was comical.
Shameless Pepsi fans
Best player in usmnt history
Agreed
So he can hit the ball right at the GK 3 times again?
And miss 4goals idk
Set pieces pretty bad today. No shots on target with a considerable height advantage
Puli’s goal was off a set piece (corner)
True. Maybe we should do short corners every time if the direct crosses aren’t our strong suit
That was not off a set piece. Lol
It was tho. Pulisic took the short corner to Weah - Weah passed it back to him and he scored. Ironically I have Pulisic on my TV right now (TUDN) explaining how they drew up that goal *with the set piece coach* 🤣 It’s just really funny that while you’re telling me it wasn’t a set piece Pulisic is literally on my screen telling me it was.
It’s still not considered a set piece goal on any stats/metrics. I understand what you’re saying. We have been very un-threatening on set pieces though.
I’d like to see Sargent sub on at 60’ for Balo against Panama I think given Pepi just could not place any of his shots well
Haji Wright should start in place of balogun at panama
I’d like balo to not start
He was the best of the 3 strikers that played today
If Sargent was healthy enough to play he would have played. No way they’re bringing on Brenden if Sarg was a go
Clint and Alexi are not impressed
Alexis said Reyna was invisible 🫥— set up the goal , made a huge stop on defense, and drew two red cards. Didn’t do anything super dumb other than the behind the back flick that only cost a throw. Not sure what he wants from him while he’s not playing a 10 and not even the highest Mid.
Red cards?
No one should be lol. It’s fucking Bolivia. As the host nation with a talent level way above them, a 2-0 result isn’t really worthy of praise.
They got the sad bastard bug.
I really hope we can manage to capitalize in the final third. We won't have as many chances as we did tonight, and I cannot even imagine maintaining our composure and not turning the ball over under press (Uruguay), but 3 points is 3 points and that's what's most important
Bolivia 9/10 in Conmebol 14 GA
Argentina , Uruguay, Colombia all won 3-0. So 2-0 is not perfect but no reason to be upset over it imo
Reyna was not invisible, Lalas is such a fucking idiot
Poor Pepi
Dude is not very good, not poor Pepi.
Neither is Balogun. We need someone else
Wish Sarg was healthy. He’s been putting away everything this season. 🫡🫡🫡
USA won Dos a Cero
Should have been 4-0
Glad we got the 3 points but scoring 2 goals and our CBs and MF looking especially vulnerable against the worst team in South America is not encouraging with Uruguay and potentially Brazil/Colombia waiting on the wings. Also our strikers are not good.
Our strikers being not good is why we only scored 2.
Reyna invisible? Lalas what game were you watching
Dos a cero (Bolivia’s Version)
Bolivia is shit
Could have been more, probably should have been more, onto the next one
I'm in NJ and it was sweltering today just going out to lunch with a friend. Can't even imagine playing 90 mins in a competitive match today... in freaken Texas 😯
It's an air conditioned stadium.
They are playing inside.
Sargent -> Pepi
nope
Don’t even know if I can say professional performance at least. Ream and Richards were atrocious. Poor finishing. But a decent result if uninspired.
Fuck off center ref, that's basic officiating
They should've let us taken that free kick at the last second.
Good enough
I’m sorry y’all, but a 2-0 against the worst team in the tournament is not great.
Not ideal but it is a win, there are a lot of positives, and they should be hungry still knowing the left goals on the field
It’s not, but I’m happy with how we played. Good attack, just poor finishing in the second half.
Flo’s last look like I could’ve had a hat trick if I stayed on
I can’t say I’m not disappointed
Hope we don’t regret not scoring more tonight
Why? If we can’t beat Panama then we don’t deserve to advance
We'll likely beat Panama, but Uruguay & the goals scores will determine our opponent in the quarters.
This game in a nutshell : Two moments of brilliance by two brilliant players and an overall awful performance by the team. Ugliest 2-0 score. Don’t get me started on Berholter but he is not the guy. We have 2 years to make changes…
xG of 2.32-0.13, 8 shots on goal, 5 more blocked shots; I swear it’s like y’all don’t watch the game. No matter what happens you have the same comment cued up. There was some spotty finishing (especially from Pepi) but the idea they weren’t consistently creating is simply not true
Did you actually watch?
Braindead lol
Bruh we controlled the shit out of the match. Couldn’t finish, but saying we played like shit is really missing the forest for the trees
What a dumb take.
"Ugliest 2-0?" In the sense that it probably should have been 4 or 5-0? We were never in danger of giving up a goal, that's not an ugly win.
Huh? We had great buildup in the second half. Just couldn’t finish.
Really stupid take. We were dominate and missed multiple sitters.
I pray this is our last game with this ref. What a joke
Good game by US, should have been 4-0 at least.
Does the studio guy know it’s “Folarin?”
What's the cheapest way to watch the rest of the tournament? I've been staying somewhere with the right cable access, but I won't have it when I get home. Is there a cheap option? Or is it just Fubo?
If you have T-Mobile for cell phone service you can get a year of Vix premium for free which includes all the Euros and Copa America games (in Spanish).
Vix is like $5 and includes the euros and copa. It is in Spanish tho.
Do you mean all the games or just US ones? US should all be on FOX.
try Foxsports(dot)com and watch in Incognito Mode on Chrome browser. Then just refresh and try again when your 1-hour preview expires
Thank you!
Vix is just $6 for the month with both Copa and Euros, its all in spanish though.
Nothing is more Gregg ball than a free kick in the final 3rd going all the way back to the defensive 3rd.
Yeah, that was totally the coach's fault. Awesome take.
Gregg's system is to try cute shit. YOu don't think the coach is in charge of set pieces?
Gianni Vio is the set piece coach. They mentioned it multiple times tonight. Pulisic played a rocket to Musah and he couldn't do much. This has nothing to do with Berhalter, as much as your sheep brain tells you otherwise.
LMAO ok. Set piece coach reports to?
I get it. You hate Berhalter and can't enjoy wins because of it. Keep hatin'.
Whatever floats your scrote
Apparently you can grab guys down on counterattacks with no repercussions
Dos a cero. On to the next.
Nah fuck this ref
Ok.
Pulisic not impressed with ye olde center ref tonight
Fair enough. They announced he carded him.
how is this ref this bad. two times now obvious yellows
Trash
I wanted more goals
With how bad this Boivia team has been, this might be the closest loss against a quality opponent that they have for a long time
Nothing about this game was close except, I guess, the scoreline
Uruguay is about to drop 5 on Bolivia. Such a weak team and not finishing some of our chances might come back to haunt us...
This ref is fucking garbage
Could have easily had a couple more goals Also could have easily conceded a couple if Bolivia had any killer instinct.
Really ref...
No way that's not a fucking yellow for stopping a promising attack.
two times as well. must have been on yellows already and ref is a bitch
No yellow for that? Lmao
Comfortable win.
How is that not a yellow
Bolivia could have like 7 yellows
*should**
That's a yellow
Yellow??!
xG on that Pepi shot .73 xG the whole first half .5.
luckily for Balo the keeper failed horribly in the first half and came up huge in the 2nd
That's a yellow. But not w/ this ref.
Ref just won’t give the yellows
No yellow for that?
how's that not at least a yellow?
That dude should've had a second yellow three times already.
yeah its absolutely horse shit. ref needs to be reprimanded
you know what bolivia i’m not even sorry i don’t know where your country is on a map!!!!!!
Pulisic should not take set pieces. Reyna is a better ball striker.
Survive and advance baby. Beat Panama 2 or 3-0
Well I wanted more. It's a win though
Ref tired of handing out yellows
Love how much shit Puli has been giving the ref all night, especially in the second half
This ref is actually taking the piss
How many football tackles can that 1 guy get away with?
How much worse would that need to be for a red? No where near the ball. And wasnt like a slight misjudgement on a fast moving play.
Yeah, that was a frustration tackle
Sargent still injured or what?
Probably not up to full fitness just yet
Got cleared to play today but obviously not fully fit
I don’t blame Gregg they had their chances to extend the lead and didn't capitalize that is not on the coaching
What is there to blame? We won our first match in major international tournament. We dominated and sure we could have won by 5 or 6 but ultimately we got the job done decidedly
I agree. The chances were definitely there. Not much GGG could tell them there other than "shoot away from the keeper"
What an odd set piece design.
We are so so so wasteful from set pieces good lord
I don't think we've been very good with set pieces for much of the GGG era, maybe the 2021 Gold Cup final aside.
2 of our last 3 goals have come from set pieces
I still have faith in Pepi as our future starting striker, but it sure as hell ain’t starting tonight. Feel really bad for him at this point. Like 3-4 solid missed chances
Strikers miss chances. For me, being in the right spot and contributing to the attack are more important. It'll be a bit before he presses balogun, but I like what I'm seeing.
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