Jimmy Conrad, Charlie Davies and Heath Pearce unpack the USMNT’s opening game at the 2022 World Cup against Wales. Tim Weah makes it 1-0 but a costly Walker Zimmermann foul gives a penalty to Wales to tie it up. What went wrong in the 2nd half and why no Gio??
00:30 Initial thoughts and why the better team should have won (USMNT)
11:10 Weston McKennie a guaranteed starter?
16:38 Christian Pulisic has his moments but needs to do more
24:46 Happy with the way the team played?
32:14 Positive takeaways
43:40 Tim Weah, Tyler Adams and Time Ream all step up
47:25 Quick look ahead to England
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Hahaha, Americans being so clueless about Football is a Beautiful thing to Watch. Keep acting like Wales were 119th in the World Rankings, anything to help you Cope.
Lol Americans talking about football is absolutely hilarious 🤣 😂 wtf is an outside back or whatever you he said.
Can someone help me understand why the guys love MMA midfield so much? Not hatin. I’m not a tactical genius. I just see so much play die in the final third. I don’t see anyone with energy in there. I don’t see brave passing in the attacking third. Is Aaronson and Reyna really that bad at defense that coach can’t make that tradeoff? Please help me understand. (I know McKennie is possibly injured). What about musah? I feel like he’s so overrated. No wonder Sargent didn’t do well. He had nothing to work with.
Wales were terrible in the first half. Had they played like they did in the second the us would not have looked that good.
Hope you guys get into some of your thoughts on how Bellharter did. Listening now.
We’re fucked unless we get a result against England. Actually behind wales on fair play even tho fox showed the US in second.
I disagree that we were without a doubt the better team in this game. If you look at the stats, we did not pressure them in the right ways to dominate the game completely. Our youth showed, is it has during most of qualifying and recent friendlies. This result was very good, despite the emotional roller coaster that came along with scoring first and giving up a pk. We easily could have lost…
Zimmermann blew this game for the US he may as well scored an own goal gifting Wales a tie when they weren’t threatening to score the whole game. He should be kicked off the team for that and too send a message to the rest of the roster to keep focused and disciplined or gtfo here and don’t make us a national embarrassment
Sally at RB.
LDLT, Adams, and Aaronson in the midfield against England.
I wonder if fans for other countries trash folks that get a penalty. Zimmerman has been a rock and a great player. One foul does not wipe out all of that.
Josh Sargent was solid. Let these guys play a bit.
Jedi for me was their best player. He looked 100% fearless, seemed to even enjoy himself and was getting around players with ease.
It takes one kind of sacrifice to make it to the top and it takes another kind to stay there. the fan-ship and media require the sacrifice of your soul from players. real stars know that they are responsible for the hopes and dreams of a million fans. the players that are second fiddle to the stars are allowed to be human and move forward with reasonable expectations. migrant workers died so that our stars could wage their degree of sacrifice in this one single tournament.
If Zimmerman wants forgiveness he could have taken out a bunch of student loans and join the masses, but these players do not deserve forgiveness ever; they win our fickle hearts over and over again until we love them. this is why the greatest players of all time are subject to so much temptation, they have won too much to do any wrong.
DONT REVEAL THE RESULT! In your title don’t reveal the result. It’s unnecessary to attract viewers and now that you spoiled it why would I want to watch your video?
Both teams would struggle to stay up in the Premiership.
Wales doesn't have the population of L.A. the U.S. ran their legs out and it would have been enough if Zimmerman didn't loose his fucking mind.
You guys don't understand Wales at all. No matter what sport, they will fight tooth and nail for anything.
Quality of both teams was extremely poor. Seemed to me the US team should have spent less time dying their hair and more on the training pitch
Completely wrong to say the US were the better team. Possession was the only thing in their favour, Wales had more shots, more shots on target and the most telling stat of all was the XG USA 0.79 vs Wales at 1.55 so Wales should have won 2-1 based on the quality of the chances
I think the first half was more Wales being negative and playing poorly than US actually being good. It's likely down to goal difference now!
Firstly Heath makes so much noise and secondly these two sounded so deluded, they even think the came is called soccer, lol. Cymru am byth.
I really dislike how everyone English speaking country only ever talks about the negatives. Even if it is one moment on a otherwise amazing game. Like i see that is was bad but its a very hard spot to be there
England are to kill these 2 teams dead.
I think we played well tho we got so predicable with going out to wide. We need to get better with playing in the center more. The team postions are good but the passing need to more clean so we gain the center confidence.
wow how many times did you say you were better less shots on target in fact you had 1 shot
The Americans will qualify behind England in the group leaving Wales third. The Welsh will start to choke in the next couple of matches given the pressure of a 64 year absence and the expectations to perform. England will smash them and Iran will probably get a draw with Wales. cheer up Yanks because you're still probably going through to round 2
Wales were nervous and off pace in first half. First world cup for all of them and it showed. But they grew into the game and looked more threatening than US in 2nd half. First games of tournaments are always difficult to call but onto the next game. Good luck US but hope Wales gets 2nd!!
Aaronson needs to start over McKennie on Friday. Reyna over Weah if possible
I think Charlie is being a tad unfair to Sargent. Sargent was playing against 3 defenders in Wales 5 back system. No one is going to look that good in that situation. When Haji Wright came on Wales was 4 at the back.
I’ll sum it up like this ,watery angry eyes …
everyone was saying 1-0 “this is great, wales is going to open up and we got ‘em” Nope. Any striker we have, any striker, it does not matter if we cannot get them the ball. Gregg is so late to make changes too. Ugh
The thing that’s most frustrating to me is that Berhalter seemed to think Wales was not going to change anything for the second half. Obviously they were going to play more aggressive and we couldn’t exploit that at all
It’s not what we wanted. But watching those guys in that first half gave us a glimpse of what we can achieve moving forward. Those guys played their heart out. We will have this group of guys for the next 2 potential world cups. The future is bright… 🇺🇸
Wales had more shots on target. If Moore had started they would have won.
Unreal that our most talented player didnt even get in the game. Reyna should have either started or been the first sub. Greg doesn't know talent when it is right in front of his face.
Cameron Carter Vickers should have started instead of Zimmerman