Thoughts from yesterday's US-England Match!

First off I've got to give Bob Bradley credit-taking his team into Wembley to play, while also taking on Argentina and Spain in preparation for world cup qualifiers this summer. I like the mentality of playing that level. It was also extremely apparent we've got some work to do. I asked Ted Copeland, the former national team coach for the English Women's team who has been visiting us, what he would tell England at halftime and he said to just keep doing what's working-to which we all agreed. When he answered the same question on the US, it was a big sigh...

These games will serve as a great tool for our backline to work on their organization as we seemed out of tune and not well connected at all. Too often we got caught behind players giving them position to the goal and just too strung out, leaving big gaps (....the second goal!).

I enjoyed the simplicity of how England played and knocked it around 1-2 touch. If you go back and watch the game again, count how many back passes England made to there goalkeeper versus how many the US had. Pretty much summed up the possession being so slanted to England.

It will be interesting to see how the US bounce back in these upcoming matches as again it's about the qualification games for the US in the long run!

Out of town this weekend-so have a great one and we'll catch up with you next week!