No offense was taken. I am just tired of listening to people blame Arena and compare this cup to the 98 cup. Its my opinion that Balboa, wynalda, and lalas obviously forgot about that awful cup.
As far as Myernick and scouting Czech, do you think we lost that game because we did not scout them properly? Lets see, a header by the biggest guy on the pitch after being countered, a quality strike from 30 and a goal as we had pushed a few forward.
At some point, the players have to be responsible. Myernick was not responsible for the poor touches of Beasley, Donovan, Reyna, etc. what about the lack of motivation and effort? Part of that falls on Bruce, but these guys are professionals and it falls mostly on them.
I dont think that its that intimidating playing in front of large crowds. They do play in front of extremely hostile crowds in places like Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, and even sometimes at home. Like I said, it was not a factor in 02 and we were more experienced in this cup. it was overall just a bad result, but I guess one that was not totally unexpected. These are just some of my opinions.
