Pretty disappointing result tonight.
2 primary sources of frustration for me, the first one entirely the fault of Kinsmann and staff. I just don't get the tactical approach to this game. The team finally gets some consistency and continuity going the past few months and plays well in a tried and true 4-4-2 system.
You gather the group together for a week and attempt to implement a complete overhaul in system by integrating a 3-5-2 in just a couple days? That's absurd. I see the idea, and I like the usage of Pulisic as a 10. It would have worked, and maybe even was working in attack. There was even some decent combination play early by our standards, but you gotta see the problems with defensive spacing and gaps between the lines coming a mile away.
Second source of frustration falls 100% on the players. Defending an important result in the 88th minute, free header anywhere off a corner let alone at either post is a unacceptable.
Aside from that one play overall I thought the group played well though enough tonight with the exception of Bradley who was terrible. Jozy and Wood were good and they look better in tandem the more minutes they play together on the field. I love the concept of Pulisic sitting underneath those two.
To me you have to over look the first 25 minutes when on the defensive side of the ball the players were straight up put in a position to fail by their coach. After the switch to 4-4-2 the players on the field really played pretty decent, the glaring exception being Bradley and an inexcusable mental lapse when it mattered most.
Michael Bradley is awful. I don't understand it man, he's was a very serviceable player for the national team at one point and he's played well at a variety of different stops in his club career but I'm ready to move after the performances he's put together basically since Brazil. You have to imagine there are 3 - 4 central channel players who'd be a net gain as his replacement right now.