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Originally Posted by Lotus

^Yes. Although the young Altidore flashed, no goals were scored by forwards. If we could grow defenders and forwards like we grow goalies, we'd be awesome.

I'm glad that our current defenders are all long in the tooth. We'll be forced to make changes whether we want to or not, and we need to make changes.

Our defenders and mid fielders were not the reason we lost. IMO the reason we were not better if for lack of a great striker. Buddle and Gomez just don't have the mentality and Altidore may be good down the road but definitely underwhelmed after the qualifiers. The US just does not have a track record of producing good hard-nosed strikers like you need to be a great team. Look at home many shots we took on goal and many many of them were badly misplayed but could have been turned into goals if we had strikers like some of the good European and South American teams have.