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Open Wide For Some Soccer! - Poch to the Yanks.


Mike

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Growing up in Michigan, if a state didn't have a Big Ten university (back when it was ten . . . don't get me started on that!) in it, we didn't consider it part of the Midwest.

 

Having lived in St. Louis for the past 20 years, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska definitely include themselves in the Midwest, and folks here would almost certainly exclude Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan from the definition. Probably would exclude Wisconsin and Minnesota too if they ever thought about it.

 

In other words, the Midwest is a pretty flexible concept with some serious regional variation in its definition. More a state of mind than anything else really.

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There was something on 538 about this recently actually http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-states-are-in-the-midwest/ Looks like it just depends where you're from. I grew up in Michigan too, and for some reason always considered Illinois to be the center of the Midwest, with surrounding states making up the rest. Never thought of Idaho or Montana as part of it though.

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Pardiola's wet dream performance, but they lost Super Jozy and Besler to injury and still stuck one in the scorebag when it would've been easy to roll over and die.

 

Jermaine Jones on the left wing even worked ffs.

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As much as people love to hate Jozy, his loss is huge. No one else in the squad is capable of holding the ball up and stretching the defense like he is. And for as poor as he played for Sunderland, it's night and day when he puts on the U.S. kit. Ghana completely took over the game when he went off.

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They were parked so hard. Ghana were starting to break them down.

 

Beckerman was good, mind.

 

:thup:

 

Aye, they rode their luck at times but ultimately they're a team with no pace and little quality aside from that either, so not sure how else they were going to set up, especially against a team who just wanted to counter.

 

This Portugal game should be very tasty now as it's actually a very similar sort of match-up, albeit with a world class player plus his significantly better than Ghanaian mates around him...

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As much as people love to hate Jozy, his loss is huge. No one else in the squad is capable of holding the ball up and stretching the defense like he is. And for as poor as he played for Sunderland, it's night and day when he puts on the U.S. kit. Ghana completely took over the game when he went off.

 

That's because his replacement was that thin, finnish nerd.

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As much as people love to hate Jozy, his loss is huge. No one else in the squad is capable of holding the ball up and stretching the defense like he is. And for as poor as he played for Sunderland, it's night and day when he puts on the U.S. kit. Ghana completely took over the game when he went off.

 

That's because his replacement was that thin, finnish nerd.

 

Well, yeah. Johannsson's a decent player, but he's no target forward.

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It's got to be Wondo next time...

 

Wouldn't be surprised. There's recent precedent, with Wondo having played up top with Dempsey in the 2-2 friendly against Mexico. Would rely on Bradley playing at his best at the top of the diamond, as he did in that game.

 

I could also see Johannsson playing just off Dempsey, or even Mix getting a start.

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