1.30.17
ASN Morning Read: 2017 Begins with a Draw
The United States men's national team plays its first game of the year and its first game under new head coach Bruce Arena, and the results are decidedly mixed. Some good, some bad, some meh.
- U.S. Attack Struggles in Scoreless Draw with Serbia
- Our ratings. Your ratings.
- Our editor is mad as heck and he's not going to take the "It's only January" talk any more: Is It Wrong to Expect Good Performances in January?
- Interesting analysis: "It's another stab at the same issue that's confounded both Bob Bradley and Jurgen Klinsmann: How does a manager get both Michael Bradley and Jones into the same lineup and have the team actually play cohesive soccer? We've all been pondering this since 2010 – it's been constant from the beginning of Jurgen Klinsmann's tenure to the end of it, and now it begins again.Today's performance was, I thought, a moderately positive data point. The midfield was able to keep the ball a ton, turn a bit of that into danger, and generally concede nothing except on the flanks."
- Good for him:
- Make your Starting XI for U.S.-Jamaica.
- Elsewhere in the world, Emerson Hyndman scored for Rangers. He sure is small:
