In regards to two players in particular: Jordan Morris and Aaron Long.
Jordan Morris played 46 minutes last night. He assisted on the game-tying goal and then nailed his PK. Yet, the consensus view among the chronics is that he's washed up and needs to retire. In fact, one guy on Big Soccer claimed that he was "unimpactful" last night. Unimpactful? He literally impacted the game greatly!
Aaron Long played, I think, 146 minutes in this tournament and was actually good. He didn't make any big mistakes. He was in position when he needed to be. He was clearly better than Matt Miazga in his minutes and generally didn't put a foot wrong. The conclusion? The guy sucks. In fact, Filippo the Clown put out a tweet wondering how "this guy was a professional soccer player" at all.
How can you be enough of a diehard and degenerate to post regularly on a reddit sub about the USMNT, or Big Soccer, and yet be *this* bad at analyzing simple performance?
I have my theories but the kindest thing I can say is that it's simple pride and confirmation bias whereas the person simply refuses to introduce anything that might require them to change their preconceived notion.
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I've heard a lot of people reference that this was the C-team, presumably because a B-team would be the subs/reserves on the World Cup roster (Aaronson, Acosta, Scally, Horvat, etc.). If that's the case, has the US actually ever fielded a B-team? I feel like it's always either our best or a roster like this one.
Struggling to come up with many, but thought Sands and Jones had relatively solid tournaments at positions (CDM, LB) where the A squad lacks depth