re: Official World Cup discussion thread - USA Eliminated

Jozy out leaves us with quite the conundrum. His hold up play allowing an outlet for the midfield/defense and to set up the offense was and will be sorely missed. My hometown boy Aron needs somebody to play off of. He has decent technical ability but looked lost trying to play Altadore's role. Didn't help playing a very athletic Ghana side.

Perhaps open in a 4231 with Aron on top. Have Dempsey come up in attack to act like a second forward. I don't know, it's tough with our lack of depth at forward.

Is 6 saves suppose to be a lot? Does that mean they only kicks on goal 6 times the whole game? Good lord

Curious to see how the Dutch respond after the huge win last Friday. Wouldn't be surprised to see a flat start but them roll out to a two or three goal win by the end of it. The Aussies just aren't that strong.

Then taking Spain to grind out a nice win against Chile. They'll hold possession and pick their moments against a very suspect Chilean back line.

Finally, got the Croats putting themselves square in the race for 2nd with a workman like victory against Camaroon.

Not the sexiest of matches but it beats yesterday.

That's what I'm hoping for. Croatia isn't a bad team at all, they just got fricked over being the 1st game against the host country. They could easily get those six points and knock Mexico out.

I'd probably play the counter game as Mexico. The Croats will be desperate and attacked minded. Like you say, sit back and try to catch them too far forward on the counter.

Aussies vs Orange Predictions?

Going 2-0 Orange

Not really. Landon isnt a target man(Altidore).

Aussie pressing the pace early.

Wow instant response by Aussie

1-1

20 min'ish mark for replays of both.