I hope these friendlies was a way for Berhalter to weed out some players. I don't really want to see Gonzalez or Ream back with the team. Both were really struggling with the high press today. While Gyasi played well today he's still going to be 4th or 5th string striker. Bradley was good at times and then other times felt like he was on an island and it wasn't until Trapp came in that it sort of settled the midfield. Bradley had a couple of excellent long balls today out to Baird who really didn't do anything with, but he short passing seemed a little off.
I really wished that if Berhalter was going to be the coach that he would've been hired in September. Because the games were are playing right now could've been done months ago and we could've gotten a head start on weeding out the trash players and incorporating fresh blood into the system and then Berhalter morphs his vision of the program. I understand his commitment to the Crew, but man I think it would've been great to get a head start on this instead of being 3 months and a couple of friendlies away from the Gold Cup. Add in the Federation's desperate need of qualifying for the Olympics really complicated things even further.