After all the delicious insanity of this World Cup, we’re gonna get absolute chalk in the last 4.

That’s absolutely a red.

Well, you haaaaate to see it.

I’m utterly avoiding The Discourse, but I’m being told Landon Donovan is implying Pulisic is soft, which is really a brain melter.

Building a painstakingly accurate Bill Walsh West Coast offense for CFB27 because 1) I’m tired of spread option 2) I’ve really leaned into nerd-dom in my old age.

Working up my scouting report for every male lead in a Hallmark movie.

Having felt this disappointment every four years since 2002, eventually you remember the good stuff, but I will take Freese’s keystone cops routine with me to my grave.

Don’t play fucking meme openings against me today. Not in the mood

Pouring melatonin into my face like I’m Cookie Monster

Just mute me for a day if you don’t live and die with US soccer. Trust me, I know I’m being insufferable.

And yet I still had the stop myself from arguing with the same fucking tired “if you don’t love Gio you don’t know ball” stuff

The Ajax academy is cool and great and also involves a bunch of 11 year olds literally wetting their beds because they are terrified of certain evaluation days and their entire extended family’s financial future rides on them

There are lots of problems with American youth soccer but I 100% do not think the people posting on Bluesky about the benefits of the European club academy system would for a moment stomach the barely even disguised child-labor/trafficking elements of that system in the US

Okay. Let’s talk about done stuff unemotionally. -We always knew our CBs were a weakness. Ream was a time bomb, but Richards really needs to be your 2nd best CB, not your best. He was shaky tonight. This is also why Mexico is out. Developing world class CBs is HARD.

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I’d like to point out to all the ball knowers who mock Seb Berhalter, he’s one of the only guys to show up and play with some balls tonight.

The funny thing is, after all the drama, Gio Reyna is just a guy. No more, no less.

Decided to watch the game with other people and I’d rather be in the Cask of Amontillado.

This will be Tim Ream’s last game for the US and this is how he’s gonna go out. So sad.

Absolutely fucking disgusting

Here’s a shit sandwich and, compliments of the chef, some complimentary Alexi Lalas for dessert.

Absolutely rancid. This Belgium team couldn’t hold a candle to the ones at their peak. We look scared. And don’t give me that “Belgium players play in big games” garbage, Stu.

Weah for Dest at half. Dest is my favorite player on this team but I’m done. When things are going well Dest is usually cooking. When things are falling apart Dest usually has his thumb up his ass.

The plan is fine, the movement is fine. The defensive rotations are fine. The execution is just absolute garbage.

Tim Ream directly responsible for two goals. Absolutely unacceptable.

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

Team needs a lift from the crowd and it’s utterly flat.

You can point out all the tactical stuff you want, but this isn’t a tactical problem. This is a team pressing and in sheer panic mode.

Not sure if Robinson and Pulisic could play worse.

Just an absolute no show in every way.

HORRID from Ream.

I promise it will ASTOUND you how far we’ve come in 12 years.

Without cheating, can anyone give me the entire starting 11 from US Belgium 2014?

One thing that helps with this is shooting cheap mezcal.

Really really really really trying to not let this ruin my enjoyment of something I’ve literally been thinking about for years. Not for some virtue-signally, sanctity-of-the-game horseshit, but because the vibe is so incredibly toxic. Just bummed.

Raining blocks like James Harden at a strip club.

NO ONE circles the wagons like the US Men’s National Team

Game day. Already feel vaguely feeling like I might vomit.

There would have been no sympathy anyway. Europeans HATE American soccer. British media relentlessly nitpicks every American player in Europe. Weston McKennie is the best player at Juve for a full season and the English snidely call him fat.

Appealing based on a misapplication of VAR is entirely legitimate and would have been a blip had Trump not stuck his dick in the light socket.

I think Mexico was really let down by their wide players. Simply couldn’t create anything 1v1.

If I was a Mexican fan I wouldn’t be thrilled with the plan those last 25 minutes. Hit and hope crosses against tired legs.

smash and grab job, that

Gutierrez has the complexion of a Victorian Lord’s forgotten daughter sent to the seaside to cure her malaise.

So assuming FOX agreed in advance not to mention the constant homophobic chanting from the Mexican fans?

Red all day and now y’all hang on to your butts

Fuck all the nosie. The World Cup rules.

bumps

I think Mexico’s center backs are cheeks and I’m shocked it hasn’t hurt them yet.