USA VS Wales : A country of 3 million is going to send y'all home devastated today

..and this was prime USMNT. Look like world beaters in the first half and then utter sh*t in the 2nd.

Same sh*t. Different day.

It's been like this for the last 20+.

Why I've learned to not get my hopes up about this team.

Half devastation. Assuming a loss to England, the US will have to keep the goal differential close and beat Iran, while they also need England to beat Wales by several goals.

All 3 million US soccer fans, 1% of the population, stay home devastated. Actually they should go to Europe or somewhere devastated, soccer is never gonna catch on here.

Every 4 years the rest of us tune in and laugh at this joke sport where falling and faking injury is a strategy.

US should have had this one. Did well in the midfield getting the ball in position on offense, but every center just found air and serves into the box ended up getting knocked away by defenders. Defense was actually solid and only had one big lapse. US needs a better attack on offense to finish the opportunities created by solid midfield play. US can get through if they keep it close with England and run up the score with Iran. But the pressure is going to be on without a win today.

Great analysis, and how about those tangents? Pulisic is the new Parker Valby.

Number 8 Wilson pushed the USA player down and away from him. Then Wilson dropped to the ground but you could see on camera that nothing was wrong with him. He then had to be assisted to the sideline where a evangelist faith healer through an intervention helped him run on the field and back into the game. I use to think that this was a french thing. Reason World cup is only every four years is that they know there would be no fan base that wants to constantly see this inferior product. I would rather watch women's basketball 🏀. And I hate women's basketball just don't tell Robin Roberts I said that. We used to be friends.

I think the US got one shot on goal all game.

Announcers must have a NDA that they are not allowed to talk about the flopping.

We'll call it a draw then.

So the so-called "greatest country in the world" can't beat Wales in the only truly global team sport in the world.

Keep playing your America first sports like American Football (about as popular as Aussie rules - in fact Rugby is far more popular worldwide), Baseball (which is less popular world-wide than Cricket) and basketball (about as popular as netball) and mostly for tall freaks (have more respect for Volleyball).

So many crosses by the US with plenty of space but either mis-timed headers or not even anticipating a cross. Horrible set plays.

However...Kate Abdo....

Not a fan of any game played by adults but are you suggesting people tune into a sport where the players wear shoulder pads, tights, and diapers and where 75% of the game is standing around and talking and 20% of the game is bending over and assuming the anal rape position, while the rest of the time they're passing around some turd shaped ball?

Agree. There was a period of play there before the penalty where I felt they had turned the corner - not playing stupid "prevent" defense and I really thought they would go on to win. But Walker Zimmerman? "No no no no no no"??? Dude - the f-ck are you doing there? That is up there with the alltime bone-headed penalties - Bale had his back to the freaking goal - idiotic.

The football stance is not a rape position. For animals in heat it is referred to as 'presenting' and implies enthusiastic consent.

Centers freely choose to play that position, yes.

Half of the rest of the stuff described applies to all sprints up to 800m. Are those homoerotic too? What about the Daisy Duke shorts on distance runners and rugby players?

He forget to mention this

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(speaking of popularity and from where it comes)

An awful result to be honest. In all likelihood after Friday England will have 6 points, Wales 4, and US 1. And then next week the British tossers will play to a neighborly draw to get USMNT eliminated no matter how many goals we score against the ayatollahs

I don't know if it's AWFUL since they did get a point and that's better than a loss in a 3 game group stage for the opener. Bad? Absolutely...especially given you DOMINATED the first half.

Remarkable how bad the US was in the 2nd half. Kudos to Wales though for making the adjustments.

Pulisic was pretty bad most of the game. Complaining to the ref non stop. Lost the ball on several occasions. Horrible tackling. Atrocious free kicks, corners and crosses.

Come to think of it, the US in the final 3rd, outside of the goal, waa abysmal as a team. A lot of standing around. Horrible crosses. A good number of "play it back passes". I have to think with a true CM like Reyna in there, it's a different story.

What was the difference in the two halves? 2 things stood our. 1 was that the US "took their foot off the gas a bit". Stopped high pressing in the Wales defensive third. The 2nd was Wales increased their high pressure against the US. Forced bad passes, for turnovers in their attacking third and the US back just looked disorganized.