Son Heung-min, Denis Bouanga, and LAFC are just trucking teams in transition these days -- and Son's on-ball work helps LAFC create even more of those transition looks.

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it's all coming together, one blown pressing sequence at a time
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Pochettino's USMNT has a pressing problem: they can't seem to press.

“When we don't have the ball...we need to be aggressive."

That aggression hasn't showed. Structural and personnel flaws have in a 🇺🇸 press that's more liability than asset.

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A tragic defensive showing in the USMNT's first half vs. 🇰🇷

Lack of coordination in press, mid & low-block.

Here, Luna doesn't use his cover shadow to block access to opposing CM + Adams sprints wide to close WB when he should let Arfsten deal with it, leaving CM wide open.