MY TAKE ON THE GAME BETWEEN NETHERLANDS VS USA.

 usa played dutch in the round of 16. now the dutch started the game with 3-4-1-2 formation while usa started the game with 4-3-3 formation. the game started with dutch sitting back and hitting usa on the counter attack . usa team doesnt seems to know as to how play in the box be it on offense or defense . as i had said the players that you choose are very important. dutch had dumfries and lind in the wing back position . dumfries is a very good fullback and if you had seen his game against barcelona then you had seen that he was kept high on the pitch by the inter coach and his running cause all sorts of problems for barcelona . the us know as to how to play in the middle of the park and press and recover possession and this was noted very well by the dutch because they wanted that usa should press because then they can playaround the press . if you had seen the first goal that the dutch scored then you would see many mistakes that usa made on defense . all the goals were scored because of the organisational mistakes and the shape they had on defense  . the attack starts from the left and they beat the press from usa and shift it to the right to dumfries . as i had said that the usa doesnt knows to defend . first off they the midfielders were caught high off the pitch which should had not happened . secondly tyler adams and the mackienny or musah should had taken position in front of the back four which they completely did not . the defense just switched off . 

the usa was playing the classic back four and compared to the three at the back of the dutch . so when the attack starts from the wide positions supposedly right then the left back tucks up with the centre backs to provide the extra cover and not expose that back behind them . now when if you see in the goals scored by the dutch usa fullbacks are in their rightful positions because they have to tucked up with their centre backs .in the open play when you are pressing then its ok that the fullbacks can go press ( even though its a risk ) because the pace is slow compared to the counter attack because they are pacy that is why they are called counters . now as i was saying that the fullbacks are going to be tucked alongside the centre backs then the usa coach should had asked the respective midfielders or the wide players to mark the fullbacks when they are on defense on when the ball comes in their own half . he should had done that and asked weah and pulisic to mark lind and dumfries. the third goal was classical mistake of positioning and body shape . i would show that in pics . 

even though the dutch won the game i am not so impressed by the game because they have all the tools to win this tournament . they started with depay and gapko forward and classen in the middle of the park . in the first half they scored the goal but they were dominated by usa in terms of possession because they the front two were not combining very well and klassen is not a no.10 . van did corrected his mistake in the second half and to be honest if you have gapko,simmons and bergwin in the team who can just any defense to ground if they can combine together. gapko as no.10 is very good it is now upto him as to how much big he wants to because because i will tell you there are two players gapko and leao who have all the qualities in them and its upto them as to how much forward they want to go. 

usa has a lot of work to do . they know on how to win possession but they dont know on how to open up the opposition defense as well how to defend their own box . there are some good players but they have to work on the defense and offense . 

i didnt watch the game between australia and argentina . australia could had troubled argentia had they had a better midfield . the midfielders were poor their decision making was very poor and some of the passes that were made were just poor . the switched the ball from one side to other way to quickly making it easier for argentina to close them down. argentina needs to pray to god that poland do some godly miracle that they beat france so that they can have a real chance to win the cup but at this time i think for me dutch are one of the teams to beat other than france .