Tomorrow is an important day for ye ole USMNT. I'd give you a long drawn out preview, but my boy Tobin and I were just chatting it up and I think this expresses a majority of my thoughts and expresses my thankfulness both for facebook chat and for good friends who are intelligent soccer fans.

Tobin

yeah, he had a great year, started maturing and was looking really good, big game tomorrow though

 Matt

yeah, mos def

im stoked

hope torres gets into the lineup

 Tobin

yeah, and the d line situation will be interesting

is simek any good?

  Matt

he was

he played in the gold cup 07

was probably the most promising defender outside of spector

but has been hurt a ton

 Tobin

ah

well if he's fit then i'd like to see him play. outside back?

 Matt

yeah, left is my guess

but i feel like we will see

born boca demerit spec

 Tobin

yeah. bradley loves on bornstein, but i think he has bad lapses way too frequently

i'd even be ok seeing boca on the left w/ goodson in the center.

 Matt

meh im not sold on him, id rather see simek

or pearce get torched so he is just gone

 Tobin

you think we'll see a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1

i think jozy needs support, but not too confident with our 2nd striker options right now

 Matt

agreed, however I want to see findley play with jozy

none of the other strikers compliment him beside jozy

 Tobin

yeah i guess. but if he doesn,t i want us to have some playing time with an alternative setup

 Matt

true, although i think davies will be back

and the other option is clint up top and he is hurt

really, keys for tomorrow are torres, edu, findley, johnson, outside backs

 Tobin

im sure hoping so. and yeah, but i'd be ok with donovan or demps as a cam in 4-5-1.

yeah, def. Im really hoping edu shows well

 Matt

yeah, both of them would be big

So what does tomorrow hold? Hopefully some answers when it comes to depth. Winning would be nice, but I'd rather see two or three guys shine and a couple suck, to firmly open and close the plane door for this roster. Worst case scenario? US depth is completely exposed, and myself and all other US fans spend the next three months in prayer for health. One thing is for certain, this game will determine a lot going forward.

 

And what does Chamo think? If Torres doesn't start all he wants to see is a 4-0 loss for the US.