{"id":33776,"date":"2022-06-02T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-usmnt-got-right-vs-morocco-as-world-cup-prep-truly-arrives\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:54:26","slug":"what-usmnt-got-right-vs-morocco-as-world-cup-prep-truly-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-usmnt-got-right-vs-morocco-as-world-cup-prep-truly-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"What USMNT got right vs.  Morocco as World Cup prep truly arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Berhalter&#8217;s played around with two different build-out shapes * in his four years in charge.  First it was a 3-2-2-3 with the right back tucking inside as an ad hoc central midfielder.  He scrapped that after about six months and turned to a 3-2-2-3 with simpler backline rotations and a director-style No. 6 as the fulcrum, which was understandable given how much success he had with that approach in Columbus.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Understand that this almost always comes out of a base 4-3-3, which was once again the primary formation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A few bad results early in 2021 forced Berhalter away from director-style d-mids as the US slowly evolved more into a pressing team than a pure possession team.  Part of that was a switch to a 2-3-2-3 with lots of the work coming via combo play from the right back and central midfielders, though again with simplified rotations compared to what we saw in early 2019.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On Wednesday night it was back to a 3-2-2-3, with a few things standing out:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2022 Right back Reggie Cannon, who&#8217;s spent most of his career as a fullback but most of this club season as a right center back in a back three, really was more of a right center back than a right fullback in this one.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\"><\/script>\u2022 Yunus Musah, playing on the left of the three-man midfield, was much more of a holding No. 8 who&#8217;d often drop back alongside the No. 6, Tyler Adams.  The other No. 8, Brenden Aaronson, played much more like a pure attacker.  The network passing graph (Musah wears No. 6, while Aaronson wears No. 11) actually reflects that to a good degree:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berhalter&#8217;s played around with two different build-out shapes * in his four years in charge. First it was a 3-2-2-3 with the right back tucking inside as an ad hoc central midfielder. He scrapped that after about six months and turned to a 3-2-2-3 with simpler backline rotations and a director-style No. 6 as the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-usmnt-got-right-vs-morocco-as-world-cup-prep-truly-arrives\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What USMNT got right vs.  Morocco as World Cup prep truly arrives<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.mlssoccer.com\/image\/private\/t_q-best\/prd-league\/ywupfiqu8mjtznuvibzv.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}