We definitely played better than we did versus Canadia.
You can definitely see Popovic’s style given we’re playing 5 backs, which when we have wingers (Bos & Miller) capable of getting up and back is fine.
The problem I see is we’re incapable of identifying or creating the correct breaks. Everything is long ball, “let’s see what that player can do against 3 defenders with no support”. It has its place but it’s not a game plan that will be effective long term. Nor do we have anywhere near the cattle to do it in attack. We need midfielders getting up in support so that the ball isn’t just coming back to where we kicked it.
This isn’t club football where Popovic can sign players to play his style. He needs to work with who we have.
And what’s really frustrating with rankings, it’s not like US were playing understrength (well until Pulisic got injured at least) yet for big parts we were better side, and we’re still missing (say what you will about performance/ability, they are still better than others we’ve been playing) Souttar, Yengi, Irvine, McGree, Velupillay.
