ESPN FC’s Herculez Gomez joins Sebastian Salazar on Futbol Americas to discuss Luca de la Torre’s performance in the USMNT’s 2-0 loss to Japan ahead of the World Cup.

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  1. look at japan squad, they’re all starters for champions league and europa league. endo is what the us thought tyler adams was, the best ball winner in bundesliga. talent wise players for players japan is superior. brazil only beat them with a penalty previous match. give them the respect.

  2. Knew that if Gregg forced his non-ball playing CBs, that the media would find a way to blame the midfield who have to play 3 positions to cover up their liabilities

  3. The midfielders were to afraid to pass it back to the center backs because lack of talent back there. So they tried to make somthing happen

  4. The fact that we are still talking about player pool options this close to the start of the World Cup is all you need to know about the state of the National Team..

    Sure, there's usually one or two positions that will be undecided until the end but this is just ridiculous..

    Players are given big minutes for seemingly no reason whatsoever..

    Why was Sam Vines called into camp THIS LATE in the Cup cycle. You couldn't call that guy in for the last few cycles?

    Why is there still questions about who starts on the wing when you've potentially had a reasonably healthy first choice lineup through LARGE CHUNKS of qualifying?

    The Coaching staff has fielded what is presumably the first choice USMNT starting lineup ONCE maybe TWICE in 4 YEARS..

    Where's the "Soccer Media" who have witnessed and participated in MANY WORLD CUP CYCLESto question any of this??

    Some really strange things going on with this Federation..

    Pretty lucky that Mexico is in a down cycle and Panama and Costa Rica rebuilding

    Mess

  5. De La Torre is a fantastic player, he has performed well, I’m sure it was just a bad game, but from what I hear the entire team had a bad game except for Matt Turner

  6. LDT fans got really carried away this summer. I heard people saying he’s our best midfielder and should be ahead of Musah. I like the guy but he’s not a starting caliber player. He should be a guy who come in at the 78th minute

  7. Frankly I thought the entire team played poorly, and most of that I lay at Berhalter's feet. How can you play a team, KNOWING their tactics, and NOT have a tactical counter-plan and a back-up to that plan??!!!! How can you play Tyler without a slick, smooth passer next to him as a compliment to his skill set?? He is NOT a "Regista" FFS! How can you NOT play Sargent, who is the most well-rounded, tactically sound striker?? Berhalter MUST Be fired, but it is unfortunate that it will require a poor World Cup to do so. Horrible. The US could have hired SOOO many other great coaches with tons of experience, and they hired Berhalter. inexperienced.

  8. Well despite lacking match sharpness Luca did well on his passing Japan did well tactically but its just I was expecting Gregg to be insecure on his lineup now kudos to Japan to be punched on his face if Gregg didn't changed the scenery USMNT out of the group stage USA can keep up with Japan but again the coach of Japan tactically outcoached Gregg because Gregg this game is thinking too much defensively

  9. Honesty I don’t know why Americans are hyping up these players? They going to get spanked by England and wales and even Iran have good players as well so I won’t be surprised if USA loses all three of their games

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