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Thanks Jake, excellent summary. We’re lucky to have you making these for us!

I love You and Our Beautiful USA Men Team so much Dear Jake, i haven't commented on this page for a long time.🥰😍🤗

by far and away the best analysis of the competing Copa American teams. Just a thought, and more 'hits' for you, pull out the USA Group C as a standalone 8min. video, covering strengths and weaknesses USA will face against each team, and title it "USA can win Group C," ; -)

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Love this, I knew very little about the teams going into this! but after enough videos I feel like it's finally time for me to complain about the blurred background... it's so distracting!! Can we just get no blur next time?

I agree with you. Donovan should have been the manager.

Jake "Galaxy Brain" Landau. I expect all of this analysis to be insightful beyond anyone else's.

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It’s not “two Bundesliga”, it’s “second Bundesliga”.

didnt age well.... Coach is gone...

And now hes gone and Hartel as well, and Pauli will have a poor live and go sown again...

I'm an English anarchist, loving St. Pauli since I was a kid in the 90s. yessssss

Lmao German -Swiss-American? Dude is German ... Americans can piggy back on anything 😅😅

very good analysis

greta analysis mate, I know and understand you american , but please call it FOOTBALL :) ...., am an Albion fan my kids were born here in brighton . excited bout Hurzeler , fingers crossed he can bring some nice attacking football .lets GO SeaGulls!!!

Ugh stop supporting the worst coach the usmnt has ever had since 94. The starting 11 played their own game against a really bad brazil.

ZERO OVERSIGHT OF COACHES IS A PROBLEM.

FOREIGNERS MONEY MAKING IDEAS...NEED PASSIONATE AMERICAN COACHES (WITH OVERSIGHT)!

Our fan base uses Gregg hate to mask our players mistakes and poor play. GGG deserves most of the blame since he is a slave to Plan A and will only change pieces not going to a plan B. Yesterday he was much more pragmatic, and the players actually brought a hunger and intensity. Until GGG can make changes on the fly we will always look good if plan A works, but if it doesn’t anyone can beat us. GGG needs to utilize our 9 and stop being so extended and not connected with our midfield. Our players need more pressure on them. We as fans need to stop only placing blame on the coach. Still way too many giveaways in bad positions leading to big chances.

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Igual que los mexicanos culpando al entrenador siempre para evitar despertar en la realidad de que NO SON UNA POTENCIA.

Longest leash I've seen on a coach in modern times.

New USMNT coach?

USMNT fans needs to realize that GGG is here to stay and demanding he be fired is naive. Give it up.

GreGG apologist… 🤔

*-🇧🇷 BRAZIL: I drank a lot of Caipirinhas 🥳🍹before that practice game, next time I'll play seriously against... against... Who did we play against?* - 🇺🇸🌈 USMNT *- 🇧🇷 BRAZIL: TMNT, ok, next time we'll crush those turtles* 🐢🥷

Brazil didn’t try at all

Matt Turner had 11 saves, probably 7 amazing ones. Brazil should have beat us worse than Colombia.

When Hürzeler is american than half USA are Germany

This is just the next phase of the usmnt cycle. They are in the get inspired phase after getting a decent result. USMNT is playing the game like a final, Brazil a friendly. Reserve your comments for when the games mean something

Only "wrong" point about him is that he will not be in the firts Bundesliga next year, but will be in the Premier League with Brighton. But this was not clear at the time you pubblished the video. Too bad for german soccer not having the chance to see gis team. He renew his contract just few days before be contacted from Bighton (... or was this a great chess like move?). Brighton paid 10M to free him from St. Pauli, making this the highest amount the team got in trading. And not for a player (this is 5M) but for a manager! 😉

Thanks a lot for this video. I will share it with a large group of people I chat about soccer. Greetings from Hamburg!

Pepi put in a hustle shift as Gregg still doesn't know how to use a striker....to score goals. Same with Gio. Which, get back to your point and others, on a fundamental level, Berhalter doesn't know how maximize talent. Credit Reyna and Pepi for buying into the game plan by essentially back-checking on defense. Still, I'm not sure Pepi had a shot all night long.

I think another highly important takeaway is that every Concacaf team played MUCH better in their second friendlies. Nations League has a huge impact on our ability to compete at the highest level. Sure it’s great for European countries because the continent is loaded with talent and Nations League is much better World Cup preparation”than random “meaningless friendlies. But we’re playing Grenada and Cuba. When we come up against quality teams we look shell shocked. I wish we could go back to meaningless” friendlies during international breaks. A low stakes friendly against Spain’s B team is still way better preparation than a meaningful game against Guatemala.

Jake, good stuff. Did you get a new camera? If so, what is it? Picture looks very hi-def. (or just using a ring light?)

im here because I want fabian to replace gregg berhalter as usmnt coach!!! PLEASE !!!!!

It was a better performance, that's undeniable. As for GB out, I don't think it was the right decision to rehire him, I'm not a fan of 2 cycle coaches at the international level. Personally, I would've hired Hugo Perez, cause he had El Salvador playing more than the sum of their parts - which is what we need. GB is an average coach, he gets this player pool to meet minimum expectations (dominate CONCACAF and get out of the Group Stage at WCs) but rarely exceed expectations. His system requires archetype players, which works in a club setting but not at an international level. Further, the slow plodding buildups in attack do not produce results against better national teams. I believe we'll see more of the same at Copa that we have always seen. They'll get results against Bolivia and Panama, maybe get something against Uruguay than lose in the QFs. That being said, I do think the fanbase has an inflated opinion of how good our player pool really is. I think much of our fanbase thinks we have a great set of players held back by a bad manager. I wholeheartedly disagree - we have a talented but wildly inconsistent (at club and international level) player pool who are coached by an average manager. Even if US Soccer fired GB tomorrow, the chances they'd find and hire a manager who is any better are slim and we'd see the same problems - with different tactics but same results..... a collection of players who cannot maintain fitness and collectively put together a string of good performances.

Playing through the midfield is critical to success, and there’s a huge positive psychological and competitive component that is born out of finding success with it when you know the opponent is trying their hardest to deny it. While he wasn’t perfect, Musah did a great job of actively seeking pockets deep in our defensive third, forcing defenders to collapse and creating windows to allow unlocking passes to the wide channels. It requires bravery, endurance, and clean/quick technique. We have a lot of talent in the middle of the pitch. We need to prioritize and showcase it, and find creative ways to ensure that it is being utilized to the fullest. But it never needs to be complicated. Give the players free license to perform and create. In return, simply hold them accountable for their fitness, focus, and effort. It’s a fairly straightforward transaction.

No other nation on earth would celebrate their national team coach actually utilizing tactics on a bare minimum level. Berhalter got a mid result against a good team today, but it doesn't change the fact that he has single handedly set back mens soccer in this country by 20 years at least. He's wasted the most talented generation we're likely to see in a long long while, easily the most talented generation in national team history. Genuinely one of if not the very worst national team coaches of all time for any nation in any sport.

GREGG BERHALTER FINALLY DID IT (after 6 pitiful years and a World Cup later)

If Canada is usa hat then we are usa used sock

The USA's coach saved his reputation after that terrrible loss against Colombia. Now he can say that he tied with Brazil, and his position is saved. However, please be aware that this is the worst Brazil national team in history.

So does this one game change everything? Honestly it just pisses me off. First off, we have watched 5 years of these uninspired types of games with poor play and management. And as for ALL of these players they play entitled. None of them fears for their position. And that goes for Gregg too. A bit of fear for your job is a pretty good motivator.JMHO

I don't care, Gregg still needs to go, at least after the Copa. 5 years is too long for a coach at this level to learn one simple thing at a time, what with the world cup 2 years away and we are at risk of throwing the Copa America away too (if he regresses after this).

Dest is suspect on defense. He would have got destroyed by V.

I'm pretty sure that both Brazil home and away jerseys have a collar. Endrick just likes to straighten his collar out to try to fulfill his prophecy (becum the next Pele).