BrewKnurd
Well-Known Member
If you want a gif on the downside of beasley's game
http://s3.amazonaws.com/br-cdn/temp...916cc9448594fc866c6622f062eae7.gif?1402960557
Some context to this GIF - happened shortly after a corner kick where Beasley was one of the two outlet men stationed about halfway between the box and the midfield line. Beasley made a run up the line to run down a pass from beckerman. Jermaine Jones (at least it sure looks like Jones, hard to tell for 100% sure when viewing replay on a phone in an area where I only have 3G service ) made a trailing run to try to win the ball that Beasley had lost. These two things left no one but Atsu on the left hand side of the US defensive half and set up the GIF you posted.
So yes, he was out of position for the counter, but he was doing his job by being that far forward on that play, its how the US was set up for the corner. Jermaine Jones left the space even more open by trying to run down the ball and leaving no one minding the left side (Not even necessarily faulting him for that, just stating what happened). There's plenty of things to rip Beasley for, I don't think this is one of them.
That said, I do think Beasley could/should have done better controlling the pass from Beckerman. By which I mean he should have controlled it at all. Could have avoided the issue altogether.
I'm done defending a guy who I didn't even want to be starting as of a couple games ago.