Brazil just school USA 4 - 1

[Stonigut]

Brazil looking great in attack and moving forward, defense looking porous, they will have to improve there to win in 2014' saw the same issue against Denmark as well. US tried hard and came close on a number of occasions,but Brazil in a different strata. Love the brazil lb, Marcelo, very smooth transition into attack with great vision and touch.

[Muadib]

The World is still round... mi nuh know is what fly up in some people head..

This is not American Football or Baketball..

Brazil live, eat and breathe football.. is not a hobby fi dem...

[myYout]

Di side look good and full ah young youts, very promising to say di least. Di ongle ting Ja need fi tek from dis match is early pressure pan di ball, nuh gi dem no time. Kah dem will not offer wi dat luxury inna qualifying. An wi fi membah di Fulham ballah fi get mark out ah di GAME!! him very dangerous. Di ongle USA playah mi really fraid ah inna attack.

[Karl]

The USA guy who scored is good! ...very good!

[Assasin]

the leftback seems very good too.

[Skeng DX]

he is the best in the Bundesliga

[myYout]

di ongle playah mi associate very good is di Fulham ballah and Donavan in some respects

[Zeppo]

No doubt a bit of a comedown after the Scotland game.

Too many shaky moments in central defense and we didn't do well enough putting away chances. But let's not forget that this Brazil team just defeated Denmark - who qualified for the Euros ahead of Portugal - in Europe.

Klinsi's project is still coming together quite nicely and I hope to see a little bit of experimentation against Canada.

[Assasin]

maybe

[HL]

I think that "iffy" penalty threw things a lot.

Next game against Canada will be interesting.

U.S. Men

vs. Canada
BMO Field; Toronto, Canada
June 3, 2012 @ 7 p.m. ET
NBC Sports Network, Univision Deportes Network

[Rico]

For those of us that actually saw the game, the score does not adequately describe the game. The US had 2 or three opportunities that were sure goals if it wasnt for some unbelievable goal keeping or last ditch defending
The US have improved in leaps and bounds, the 5-1 against Scotland was no fluke. We are in for a rude awakening whe we play them, especialy if dempsey is fit. The Regae boyz coaching staff needs to stop playing the ass about them looking at players and let our starting 11 play together so the can develop some cohesiveness.

[Assasin]

Plus the ref could have overlooked that first penalty.

[myYout]

Talking bout saves and post, membah US keepah mek a good save to deny a sure goal to an den Brasil hit di post, it wouldah been a debacle before US eben started playin.

[Stonigut]

Actually this is exactly Jamaicans weakness when playing the USA, we are slow and too deliberative they see that and see the weakness, where we have the advantage of speed and strength in excess over say guat or Elsal or even Honduras To a lesser degree, USA has fit, fast, worker bee players that will dull the very advantage the Jamaicans have when playing those other teams, that is why especially a guy like Daley in the middle will not work against faster teams they will Nyam him for hors d'oeuvres. This is the very reason I have been calling for the fittest, fastest, most skillful combination, yuh can't know that if you don't measure performance.

[Karl]

A take on Klingsmann's reaction -

Klinsmann's 'nasty' comments spoil the moment

By Mike Woitalla, Thursday, May 31, 2012


Just when I was about to heap praise upon Jurgen Klinsmann he has to go and utter the most repulsive words I've ever heard from a U.S. national team coach.

"Maybe we're still a little bit too naive, maybe we don't want to hurt people, but that's what you've got to do,” Klinsmann said after his team fell, 4-1, to Brazil.

And not for the first time, Klinsmann said his players must get “nastier.” When I heard him use that term last year, I figured that the German, although his command of languages is truly remarkable, must have been unaware of its definition, i.e. “filthy; indecent and obscene; highly unpleasant; vicious and spiteful.”

But now he talks about “hurting people”?

“We've got to step on their toes more and get them more frustrated," Klinsmann went on after the Brazil loss.

Well, Klinsmann has one player who knows all about stepping on toes -- the German-born and -raised Jermaine Jones, who tried to maim Neymar in the second half with a two-footed flying tackle while the Brazilian was near the sideline at midfield and not even in need of being tackled.

Jones, you may recall, was made captain by Klinsmann in January while serving an eight-week suspension from his German club Schalke 04 – for stomping on the toe of Marco Reus. Everybody knew Reus entered the game with a broken toe, and Jones went after it. (VIDEO)

Jones, after he returned from suspension, received eight yellow cards in 10 Bundesliga games. He got one on Wednesday, perhaps pleasing Klinsmann, with a foul that could have easily injured one of the world’s greatest young stars.

It’s unnecessary to explain why the U.S. national team coach should not be advocating “nasty” play and “hurting” people. Many great teams have succeeded without that attitude and it’s simply not the way we want the USA to play the game.

And besides Jones, it’s not the way the USA is playing -- while showing nice progress under Klinsmann, whose team beat Italy in Genoa last February without Jones.

Klinsmann’s USA entered the Brazil game on a five-game win streak. Within the last five days, it played two very entertaining games, Saturday’s wonderful 5-1 rout over Scotland and the loss against Brazil that, despite the scoreline, offered so much to be pleased about. Never has the USA created so many chances against Brazil. For sure, the defense can be criticized, but the Brazilian finishing was superb. And the USA stormed into the attack for most of the game trying to come back -- so of course the defense will be vulnerable.

I’d rather have a U.S. team fight for the comeback with such spirit and risk a rout than be satisfied with a narrow loss. It was why I was to praise Klinsmann. In a friendly game to prepare for World Cup qualifiers, his team played attack-minded soccer against a team that most others would set up a bunker. The performance -- if not the score -- bodes well going into Concacaf World Cup qualifying.

On Wednesday, Klinsmann's men went down a goal in the 12th minute on what surely wasn’t an intentional handball. They hit the post, were thwarted by great saves, and fell victim to some Brazilian brilliance.

They did not lose because they weren’t nasty enough. And it's not how they should try to win.

Source: SoccerAmerica.com