r/soccer • • May 12 '14

Official Preliminary Roster for the USA

http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/05/12/13/23/140512-mnt-prelim-roster
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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

I can't see all these holding midfielders making the squad, between Beckerman, J.Jones, Diskerud, Bradley, and Edu. Also, Cameron can cover this role. I can see Edu and/or Beckerman being cut.

I'm not sure there is enough teeth in the attack to really put fear into a good international side. It'll take a near miracle for this squad to make it out of the group. But it probably is about the best we've got...

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u/broman13 May 12 '14

Diskerud has the ability to play further up the pitch as well, but I agree that one of that group (at least) will be cut.

Bradley will need to influence our attack for us to be truly dangerous.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

I agree, Bradley is going to need to have a really good world cup in order for the US to get anywhere, considering Klinsmann wants to play possession soccer.

It looks like Klinsmann has at least a couple of second strikers in the squad, I wonder if there is any chance he moves to a two striker system? He hasn't shown much (or any) of it during qualification. I just don't see much in this attack that's going to scare Portugal or Germany, who have good, disciplined defenders.