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You cannot be successful against good teams when your whole attacking game plan is to score from a free kick or corner.
Lack of playing time for key players
A problem with Bob Bradley is that a several members of his squad are not playing on a regular basis in Europe. DeMarcus Beasley, Jozy Altidore, and Freddy Adu are all unfit and not up to the standard of international football.
Bradley should take the approach of Fabio Capello of England and start players who are playing well for their club sides. That means that players like Kenny Cooper, Stuart Holden, and Jose Francisco Torres should be in the squad and playing.
Sometimes it is easy to paper over holes in a team when the competition is not that tough. When you take a step up in the quality of your opponents, then your weaknesses become exposed for everyone to see.
Fortunately for the U.S. team, the Confederations Cup is a warm-up for the World Cup and not the actually tournament. So we still have 12 months to get things right.
But things could be worse. We could be Italy, who need to beat Brazil this weekend and hope that the U.S. beats Egypt or they are out of the tournament, also.
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