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I agree with that, I just am not sure that under these circumstances that USA can make that kind of offensive adjustment to make the attack more potent.

Again, I agree with you completely though, that against Belgium one way or another we need to attack more consistently like we did against Portugal, since that game the possession time and shots were literally 50-50.. However even in that game some of our attacks just totally broke down, so all the same we need to be cautious, hence why I said attack smartly.

I love Beasley's attack in this Cup, he has been FAST, but somebody has to be there to help, that is kind of our problem. I don't know what its called in futbol, in basketball you call that a fast break, when on defense gets a great takeaway and is the first down the pitch with an opportunity to score one on one. We've had a lot of great opportunities from this kind of play BUT we've also kind of fell on our face a few times too, showing we are getting a bit over our head.

I do disagree with you saying parking the bus hasn't worked, because Germany only scored one goal against us, Ghana only scored one goal against us, and Portugal ALMOST only scored one goal, and indeed ALL those goals they scored were on Tim Howard break downs... All the saves have been a team effort. This is what I am calling "half parking the bus" and I think its saved our ass more times than it hasn't.

TRUE, its not the greatest sign, its not the best way to win or draw, BUT it has worked this far. So to conclude, I agree with your idea that we should attack more, I just disagree with your analysis that our defense has been that bad, we just haven't been that great, however we have the ability to improve. I like your idea to increase the press higher up on the pitch, put that much more pressure on the ball earlier in the possession, indeed that is how Portugal shut down our offense in the second half of our match against them, and they got A LOT of takeaways using that kind of defense. We should do some more of that, and we should attack more when the opportunity is there, but I still think our half parking the bus strategy has been very effective and if all else fails that alone may just be the ticket to beat Belgium.

You are right though, Belgium's defense will NOT be as good as anyone we've played in this Group so we should definitely exploit it and attack more. Just I think we shouldn't try and be an "attack first" kind of team, or Belgium will eat up our mistakes.