Originally Posted by HAM CITY
i think at this point Jozy is receiving a lot of unfair criticism. i know some people are still disappointed in his poor season w/ Hull City but he simply didn't play that bad in these last four matches.
he had his moments throughout the tournament, he did struggle with consistency and seemed to disappear at times but like i said in the WC thread i really think a lot of that had to do with his partner Findley up top and a lack of service he received from the rest of the squad.
He and Findley had absolutely zero chemistry, i'm not sure they linked up consecutively one time they entire tournament. Donavan aside, our entire team didn't look like they knew how to properly connect with our forwards, a tactical fault of the training staff not Jozy.
Jozy's biggest issue right now is he needs to learn his own identity. he needs to figure out what type of striker he wants to be and go out there and perform night in and night out and elevate his confidence. unfortunately the USMNT's strategy for getting Jozy the ball takes the ridiculously wrong approach.
he does have outstanding skill on the ball and he showed this tournament that when he receives the ball at his feet he has the abilities to make plays and attack goal at the highest level but what do his teammates do? instead they continuously provide him with long balls sent in through the air from outside our attacking third, hope he heads it down to an accompanying teammate, pray for a shot on goal, repeat. Jozy's shares the fault when it comes to his inability to score goals and ineffectiveness this tournament with the entire team as well with Bob Bradley.
As someone else said, he is only 20 and younger than most of us posting in this thread. the speed, the power, the skill, he already has all these things, which leads to high expectations, but the intelligence, the killer instinct, the consistency, those things will come with time. not to mention more competent support from his teammates will aid with the latter as well.
