Come on now. #2 was a gift.

If I’m Audrey Bledsoe, I’m having words with Taylor Smith for leaving her feet in the box like that. Stay on your feet and take away half of the goal for me at least. Heath has literally the entire goal to choose from.

It’s all anaerobic all of the time. So much fun. And then it’s delicious core work (mmmmm core work.) And to top it all of you get hit a lot in places that aren’t fun to get hit in (read balls, face, side of head.)

The goal was ABSOLUTELY on him. If he is going to be a CDM, he HAS to drop Chichi at the center circle, take his card and go on about his game. Stop the run. This is the first job of a CDM.

It’s Irish. Gaelic is what the Scottish in the highlands speak.

There is no replacement for a transcendent number 6. And we are all witness to what one can do for your club. He took a bottom half of the table Leicester and made them champions, and now he is taking a bottom half of the table Chelsea and is making them champions.

He is not returning to his native home. He was born on Reunion Island which is French territory, but nowhere close to France. That’s what makes his story all the more amazing. that 2 guys from tiny islands in the middle of the ocean (Payet=Indian Ocean, Ronaldo=Atlantic Ocean) are two of the most skilled players in…

5 of the starting 11 that beat England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup (THE most important win in US Soccer history) were St. Louisans.

Can I be the first to say “Oh God! F NO!” to Bruce Arena. If that’s the best we can do, we are well and truly fucked.

I agree that Essien was a better all around player, but I’ll always take a true DM (Makélélé, Gatuso, Kanté) over a AM trying to play that role. Look at Leicester without Kanté. That is the most difficult position to learn/teach, and the one most necessary for prolonged success.

He wasn’t quite as good as his predecessor (Makélélé), but he was very good. And Claude could have never hit that shot.

What has been widely missed by most in the american soccer community is the fact that the EPL is NOT a place for development. Brek Shea and Yedlin were unprepared and tried to make it in a league that has Zero time for you to catch up.

Lacazette + Griezmann = Never having to see Giroud take the field. The pace of those two together would be terrifying for opposing coaches. Giroud lacks the “dead eye” of a true finisher. He wins some head balls and bullies his way into some dangerous places, but doesn’t finish professionally enough.

I was in attendance, watching the U-23 team stand on the same field as the Columbians. It was tactically awful from the beginning. After 15 mins of trying to play small, we should have realized we were not going to possess the ball. But Horvath was still bowling the ball DOWN THE MIDDLE to one of the midfielders who…

Back 4 are not the problem. In fact, we have the one of the deepest pools of centerbacks in the world (Brooks, Miazga, Omar, Cameron, Besler, with Zimmerman, Parker and O’Neill in the pipe.) The real problem is CDM. We’ve got nothing, and no one in development. So no matter how good your centerbacks are, they are…