U.S Belgium Breakdown

All good things must come to an end. This includes the United States Men's National Teams run In the 2014 FIFA world cup,  despite a tough loss to Belgium the United States have a lot to be proud of, getting away from the extremely tough group is a victory in itself, regardless of all of this we must revisit today’s match.

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•           Michael Bradley- By far the biggest disappointment of the tournament for me. The reason the diamond formation was enacted was so to allow Michael Bradley to go up into the attack ad assist the forward, for most of the tournament, Michael Bradley was invisible. They needed a top notch outfield player, and he was not it.
•             Tale of two half’s- In the first half the team was good, they played hard and maintained possession for the majority of the half, however they did not have a quality chance. In the second half Belgium took over, they had every opportunity, and every opportunity looked like the ball was going into the net, but Tim Howard played absolutely out of his head, and put on the best performance of his life.
•            Tim Howard- If no one believes he is one of the Top 5 goalkeepers in the world they should now. He found every possible way to prevent Belgium from putting it into the net, if you can think of 4 better ones, please tell me.
•             The future of U.S Soccer- Despite a great performance, there are still issues that need to be addressed. For example the Americans are a play hard power team; they don’t have a guy who has a lot of Technical Ability. They also do not have a star that will catapult them into stardom, a guy who they can look to for a big play, and someone that has the ability to make the starting XI at a top club like Barcelona or Manchester United. However I do see people like Aron Johannsonn, Julian Green, and Deandre Yedlin being these types of players. I am thankful that we have someone like Jurgen Klinsman to lead the team into the future.