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Congrats on the new little edition to your family!

Congrats on your new member of your immediate family! Thank you for the analysis, it's good to learn soccer tactics. Now, is Poch-Ball working? It looks like it is, but against Concacrap teams and well, that doesn't mean much. When they play a worthy opponent from another confederation like UEFA or Conmembol, we'll see if Poch-Ball really works where it counts.

This was my first time being recommended your channel and I loved the analysis with the game replays. Also, nice Sandershelf.

The inverted fullback was attempted a few times under GGG. It was dubbed the Nick Lima role that was filling in for Tyler Adams during camp cupcake. The larger change is not wasting a midfielder as a fullback but actually use your real fullbacks as inverted. Jedi did a great job, but there is no way in holy hell Poch will do this inverted fullback using Jedi against a good, pressing team like say, Colombia. He has limitations, and receiving a fizzed ball in tight space while occupying the spot of the 6 is a recipe for absolute disaster. Rather, this may be a trial run for the real A-team that instead makes Dest the inverted fullback, and Jedi gets to play a more traditional fullback.

2:21 100%%%%%%!!!!!! it's always been frustrating watching the Americans being forced into a style and formation which stifles the creativity and plays largely defensive. Congrats on the kiddo!

Congrats on fatherhood dude!

So, how do you defend against such an overload? Switch fields maybe or quick counterattacks to catch Robinson out of position? I just watched Jamaica's second goal. They switched sides really quick and progressed down the field quickly. They scored on the rebound.

Congrats!... You and your children can always share the national teams.

10:31 "I don't want to spend too much time shitting on Gregg Berhalter..." I mean, we all kinda think you do, and it's totally justified.

Congrats on your baby! Love your breakdowns.

Congrats Popa!

congrats on the baby!

The amount of one touch ball was very impressive. Also a lot of cycling triangles. Players sliding to diff positions everywhere. Defenses hate this type of play as you feel like you are chasing shadows. Love the breakdown and congrats on the new baby!

The best part of that attack on the first goal with the movement from Musah and Pepi is it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't moment for the defense. If you don't track them and cover them then you create a goal scoring opportunity at the feet of Pepi, if you don't we see the result. Ofc the technicality from Puli an McKennie make it possible to pull it off

I was bouncing off the walls watching their creativity and tenacity. This is the spark the usmnt has missing since the days of dempsy and altidore! So excited to watch this current generation finally come together and create magic on the field! Keep going usmnt 👏👏👏💪

Congratulations on the baby girl!

Nice SF City shirt.

Who freakin knew we had such creative players??? Now, won't it be fun to see how this team looks with all the top players healthy and playing. Can't wait! Jake, get back to the videos I always look forward to your take. Oh and please feel free to shit on Berhalter. You took the high road for such a long time go ahead and fill you quota. 😁

I thought coaching didnt matter hmmmm😅

the hype is crazy..... guuna suck when you lose again. again a better side. jeez one win and you lose your minds. Jamaica literally sucks... very bad.

Love your breakdowns of games. Wish you were on more often. I may be in the minority here, but I’ve only followed soccer for a couple of years and this is helpful.

Good analysis of the game. I will be back for more!

Porch BALL? Do we really need to do this? It’s was “Berhalter -ball”because under GGG it was a unique inefficient terrible style for this team so the Berhalter-ball stuck. But that they are playing more efficiently and look better in the ball and have an actual strategy in the box we don’t have to put “ball” after coach’s name. Let’s just call it good soccer.

We always said that Berhalter's coaching style works better in a club setting, and now with Pochettino in charge the team is actually playing more like you would expect a club team to with the fluidity and movement off the ball. I'm also very interested in what Poch is going to do with Reyna when he's finally healthy again--however long that lasts.

That Puli Trump dance was epic. Game was one of the first time when US fully dominated.

Great analysis, very insightful. We’re allowed to be excited now!

congrats on the birth of your baby!

Just subscribed. Amazing analysis of the plays

Best part of the night was pulisic busting out the Donnie T. Outstanding work Captain America. You know Rapinoe lost her shit. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And some people argued the coach doesn’t matter. 🤦

Offense is looking great; defense needs to play more aware.

I don’t feel comfortable with Tim Ream in the back, I believe teams will target him with speed. It’s time to look for his replacement.

DUDE>>>It took you 5 minutes to start showing the entirety of your thesis...Please...no one has that kind of patience

Congrats Jake! We all forgot what it was like to actually like this team over the last few years, but I know I found it during this game. Hopefully we can all bury the nonsense discussions and just have some fun. Because that first half was damn fun.

What a difference it makes having a manager who actually knows how to attack defenses. The ball movement was excellent. And this was even with missing arguably four of our best players.

Is that a leatherbound Stormlight Archives in the background?

Congrats on the daughter!

Nice analysis. I was at the game, section 106, and had a great view of the entire game. Some comments, more or less in random order. As pointed out, we were 3 in the back when on the ball and occasionally just two especially when Scally was more forward. What happened is Musah and Weah were back to touchline, Robinson pinched in almost as a double pivot/attacking 6 with Tessman, while Christian was a pinched in left winger and from time to time would stay central as a combination 10/shadow striker. Robinson was free to make runs and attack, leaving Tessman more of a single pivot and a true 6 when that happened. Agree, by the way, about Tessman, a terrific game by him. He was a pure holding mid, showing for the ball constantly and always making a good, if very safe pass. Wes was mostly on the right, a great lofted ball to Christian for the goal. When Wes got the ball, we yelled "Find Christian!" and he did. It's another example that with our speed we can be a deadly counterattacking team, which we will have to be against a top 5 opponent. This hybrid system will definitely work against weaker opponents like Jamaica, but I question if it will work against a top team. I think we will have to go to a more traditional double pivot and keep good defensive width though maybe Poch thinks with Adams, he can get away with this approach since Tyler is a more dynamic ball winner/destroyer. I guess we will see. Jamaica was slow moving the ball, so it couldn't get around our narrow defensive line except on occasion. As for Pepi, I think Poch really likes him since he is playing a traditional back to goal 9 which works when you control the ball with 4 other guys along the attacking line. Pepi played well, I thought, winning balls, putting himself in position to score, with a really nice far corner finish. He can press well too, not a Balogun strength. Note that we did few crosses, which made sense given how tall Jamaica's center backs are. Jamaica started the 2nd half much better, with a mid to high press that discombobulated us a bit. Tessman was good coming back and showing as an outlet to extract us from any danger. A low note was Demarai Gray's first goal, a real brain fart frankly on the part of Ream and McKenzie. Rewatch that goal and Gray is all alone near the six with four yards of space around him, and by the time McKenzie realized he was ball watching and turned and saw Gray, it was too late to close down. Reviewing the video will be painful for Mark. Gray's 2nd goal can be down to Scally, who did not close on the cross to Gray. On the upside, Bailey was made very ineffective. Really, those two goals should not have happened, though Gray is a very good player. Poch is his press conference noted how the group was much less intense at the start of the second half, and I am sure he will remind them constantly about what happened in this game to almost let a weak side back in the fight.. It was a good win, against a team we should beat handily, but not without some issues. The really good news is that it is clear Poch has approached our pool thoughtfully and is flexible to adapt to opponents while keeping players in their club positions more or less. When Dest returns, Poch will have to tinker with his approaches given Dest's unique talent (though aside from his one mistake, Scally played very well). Finally, both Arena and Berhalter were at the game. Wouldn't it be interesting to interview both of them on their impressions. Hit up their PR folks and report!!

Grertings Jake. I am very happy everything is going well for you. Congrats on your newborn daughter. Great video. Keep it up brother. Go USA. Forza Puli.

When we do this against lower level teams it will look great but when we do this against real quality we will get punished.

This just shows that - contrary to what Berhalter apologists have been saying - we have talented players. These tactics are extremely hard to defend by Creating overloads in myriad ways, and just generally being unpredictable. Berhalter ball was boring and predictable. The players looked like they were actually having fun out there. It was so much fun to watch!

Any kind of -ball works when you get Puli off the flank and put him in front of goal so we can disrupt defenses and score goals. Glad somebody who gets paid to play, discuss or coach soccer finally figured out how the game works.

Congratulations on welcoming a baby girl into the world! Great video as well.

Congrats on the daughter Jake! And thank you for the breakdown. Of all the channels and clips since Monday, you are the first and only person to break the play down the way you did. Keep it up. Everyone else is merely running their mouth, offering the same 2-3 takes.

Congratulations!

Thank you so much Dear Jake for enlightining us about Our Beautiful USA and Concacaf.😍🥰🤗🇺🇲🔥🙏

Congratulations!!!

Ah, congratulations to you both. Hope mom is well. And Eloise, you have a cool dad.

It’s Jamaica. Even a crappy tactic will work. This shows nothing for me. He should get a result against a team that’s on the same level