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So for the soccer heads

The reason Arena had 7 changes for the USA-Mex game from TnT was that he essentially had two teams practicing two totally different formations. The TnT game was played with a 4-4-2 while the Mex game was 3-5-2(or 3-4-3, forget which). Arena did that so that the Mexico players would be as fresh as possible in Azteca plus we'd show them a formation we hadn't played under him in a while.

Thus all the changes.

Posted: 06/13/2017 at 12:24PM

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