Apparently not one of the US gamers tailored to the Dutch defensive tactic of holding their forwards broad, slicing off passing lanes from the US CBs to the fullbacks. They compelled the CBs to hold the ball into the center then the fullbacks and the remainder of the US crew moved extra centrally. That easy tactic was largely liable for limiting the US assaults up the perimeters and compelled the fullbacks into much more working than they often do. The US midfield moved backward and centrally, congesting the midfield and making it laborious or inconceivable for them to obtain the ball in a posture to assault.
I feel what wanted to occur was for the fullbacks to remain broad and for the midfielders after they obtained the ball going through again and beneath strain to knock the ball broad to the fullbacks. Apparently none of them noticed that nor did the US teaching workers.
The opposite alternative afforded by the dutch defensive ways was for the CBs to hit extra balls behind the protection shortly for the attackers to run onto reasonably than carry the ball slowly up the center and wait to move till there was no area behind the retreating protection; regardless of Ream’s and Zimmerman’s passing skill that occurred very hardly ever. The balls performed centrally to Ferriera have been largely wasted as he was unable to regulate and move amid a crowd of defenders.
Earlier than the sport I assumed a bonus the US had over the dutch was that the US midfield is extra cell, however by holding the sphere each slim and brief from entrance to again they pissed off the US skill to cowl floor and made the sport extra about shut management and motion in tight areas. Then the dutch pushed the ball broad in assault solely after shifting near a large participant who was both broad open or coated solely by a late arriving fullback.
As for the grades:
I feel each Reyna and Wright are too excessive as neither actually imposed themselves on the sport.
Additionally, neither Ream or Zimmerman discovered a productive solution to begin the assault from the center when the fullbacks have been minimize off from them. I’d count on essentially the most senior guys on the crew to have the ability to see the tactical state of affairs and take a look at one thing completely different than slowly carrying the ball ahead. So their grades needs to be decrease too.
