I sense a disturbance in the force

Apparently DaMarcus Beasley didn't take kindly to Bruce Arena (rightfully) calling him out, popping off sound bites like, "I was back there defending the whole time, I don't know what [Arena] wants me to do" and "I was always defending the whole time. That's how the game went. Next time I will leave the guy and play as a striker instead of a midfielder and then we'll see what happens."

Unfortunately DMB's job wasn't to solely play defense. His job was to go at people, get up the wing and send in some service to Brian McBride. Never mind the fact that, natural position or not, he had a horrible first touch and consistently played the ball back.

Arena had some words of is own when responding to a question about his DMB remarks: ""If he's any kind of a player or man, he understands it. If he doesn't, he's not going to be able to help us in Games 2 or 3 either."

Arena did this same kind of thing with Eddie Johnson and EJ took it and stepped up. He was one of the very few players going at the Czechs. One thing this team has always seemed to have going for it was that they were tight and could rely on each other, thick or thin.

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Expect some changes against Italy. From the same interview with Arena: "We're not going to go with the 3-0 loss game plan. We threw that page away after the game and we'll try to come up with a new one."

Look for EJ and Clint Dempsey to making the starting XI and hopefully infuse some creativity and spirit into the team.