Unbelievable: How the united states lost 2018 WORLD CUP| Bruce Arena


Make no mistake, U.S. players weren't good enough on Tuesday, and didn't play like a team with everything on the line, but no one carries more blame for the loss than Arena.

Arena clearly became disenchanted with Cameron after his showing against Costa Rica, but when Gonzalez played even worse against Honduras, it should have been time for Arena to get the normally reliable Cameron back in the lineup.




Instead, Arena went into the October camp having settled on a starting tandem of Gonzalez and Matt Besler, with concerns about Cameron's fitness being the key reasoning.




This despite Cameron having recently returned to the starting lineup for Stoke City, and despite his track record as a player who has never had an issue with match fitness.




The Panama win was comfortable enough for Gonzalez, who was never really tested in that win, but it wound up giving Arena a false sense of security, leading to the indefensible decision to leave Cameron on the bench for three straight qualifiers.




If there was something more to Arena's decision than him rating Gonzalez ahead of Cameron, it hasn't surfaced yet, but it's tough to imagine a justifiable reason for............
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you can come up with any/every/whatever reason under the sun why the US didnt qualify for the world cup in Russia, but the simple answer is that they were NOT good enough.