On this edition of the Set Piece Analysts’ daily podcast, Richard Farley and Jeff Kassouf take a detailed look at the Wednesday performance of the United States’ Mens national team in Amsterdam, where they lost 2-0 to the Netherlands. Then, the duo go through the other major international results and close the show by looking back the the U.S. Women’s national team’s win over Germany at the finals of the Algarve Cup.
Set Piece Analysts’ daily podcast features the site’s best talent talking about all the news in the football world. You can get it via iTunes, from the site’s archive or from the inline player below.
Don’t forget you can get in touch with the show either in the comments below, at podcast@setpieceanalysts.com or on our individual Twitter accounts that can be found on the left hand side of the page. While your at it don’t forget to follow Set Piece Analyst on Twitter at twitter.com/spanalysts.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
I think we definitely learned that Findley, Bornstein, and Torres should not be on the field in South Africa.
I know you guys like the Mexican League, but Torres can’t keep up at this level. They need an attacking midfielder, but he was dreadful. You can’t have a guy in the midfield just giving the ball away every time he gets it. He was killing the US in the first half, and they played much better when he was replaced at halftime, moving Bradley up a little.
Torres may have a future in the national team, but I don’t think he’s ready this summer, judging by today’s performance.
I’m sticking with my evaluation of Torres, though I can’t disagree with your first statement as it concerns a starting XI. He would absolutely be on my bench, and nothing that happened yesterday informed a change in that stance.
Nice work. But shouldn’t you keep your women’s soccer commentary only to the women’s soccer podcast.
Thanks, E.
It’s a good question. We realize that not everybody wants to hear about the women’s game, which is why we push it to the end of the show; however, ideally, we wouldn’t have a Women’s Podcast at all. It’s a reality of the current world, but if I had my way, the women’s content would be seamlessly integrated into the men’s content – just soccer content.