Coaching staff don't need Stern or Sol. Look at the goals again, actually not just the goals but all game, poor coverage, reaction instead of proaction, the boys adjusted well and made up with athleticism but not smart or coached defending.. The 1st goal 2 US men fling dey body and our guys hold up waiting for Jan to save again...look at when we did attack(counter), forwards without supporting cast..unless we made a build up or Hyland fanned out long to JJ, who was surprisingly given lots of space, yet the times he was presented with one defender, either shot from outside or tried to square in most cases, we need to JJ to take on in every 1V1, to at least absorb and pull multiple covers, freeing the ONE or TWO (since it's all we seem able to muster) of our players in the box. Yes we possessed better, but the possession was mostly sterile and US just calmly waited for us to prematurely ejaculate oops..falter
add: tactics, many knew the men most likely to score for US would be Pulisic and Altidore, but didn't look like we were not to worried, some ONE had them ..meanwhile our offensive players seemed to be surround by MANY, except in JJ's case..which was quite strange to me
Boss post before yuh touch "sterile". After "sterile" yuh went positively stratospheric.
Some of the coordination in defence that was lauded on the previous match dates went out the window, but even if we accept that Sol is redundant, where do you see Stern as being surplus to needs specifically? I think you should flesh that out for us some more with the same quality as your first chapter.
From sterile possession what could Stern do?
Well i would think that a full supporting midfield cast should be able to add a few options. Thus the lone forward must be coached and practiced to hold up giving them the opportunity to advance, once involved, then cross runs from forwards with a possible "Stern turn" if the opportunity present itself, if forwards are stil marked with diagonal or change position runs, then outside shooting from midfielders would be in order, which in turn will eventually free up forwards for poaching...but bottom line, is we need to be able to advantage the one V one situations to creat space...this is I think is what possession passing is used for, to create such opportunities..but if we just knock to keep possession and not using that possession to create a advantaged situation, then we must be up by 2 or 3 goals..something like what the US was doing to us. The stern query, is simply because, besides the more square balls from the wings,where we almost scored 2 goals, something which we all here were calling for since 2006 or the beginning of "we feel we reach" syndrome. I saw nothing new from our players that indicate they had a Stern John influence. Sterninho was especially effective in the 1 V 2, as a center forward, mastering the presented goal scoring opportunities, but if we don't have a supporting cast to give those passes as it presents itself, so the center forward can have an opportunity to make this type of play, unless i missed it..what was his actual contribution, did you see an influence ? or was my anticipation after a couple days of instruction to much ?
Closest I saw to a stern influence was Hyland, and this was mostly to make a non-threatning pass to JJ, who looked liked he was playing under pressure with a bellywuk, he, our current best player(imo), hardly stopped anyone(williams did most of the running) or instilled fear only in maybe the ball boys.. I'm certain he will be better next outing...even "The Mummy" had more life, even with 3/4 the talent.
Thus my comment, maybe Stern can contribute at some point, when we can actually attack against compact defences as a team, consequently looks like a Yorke or even a Eve might have more to offer, I can't speak for their offensive coaching ability, just thinking of the type of game they themselves played.