It\u2019s taken years, but Marsch will finally decide his starting goalkeeper for the World Cup this week. After evenly splitting starts between Dayne St. Clair and Maxime Cr\u00e9peau through his tenure as head coach, he told reporters that the decision on the World Cup No. 1 will come after the Uzbekistan match, where both will play 45 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While St. Clair has taken on the higher-ranked team in the two-match international windows over the past year, Cr\u00e9peau might just have the inside track on the top role. Much of that comes down to vibes, rather than goalkeeping, as Cr\u00e9peau\u2019s performances and confidence despite a 2\u20130 loss to Argentina to open the Copa Am\u00e9rica in Marsch\u2019s third game in charge still looms large.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the club level this year, neither has been great. Cr\u00e9peau has allowed 43 goals on Orlando City, the worst defensive team in MLS, and has a goals prevented mark of -0.6, while St. Clair has allowed 28 goals on an Inter Miami team that isn\u2019t much better.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to know one another off the field as well, and we\u2019ve got to know what works for us when we\u2019re playing, when we\u2019re not playing, pushing one another, preparing one another for all the situations, basically,\u201d Cr\u00e9peau told The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know ourselves pretty well, and there\u2019s a mutual respect there because, obviously, we\u2019re good guys, but we care for one another at the end of the day. It\u2019s something that\u2019s very healthy within our group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision won\u2019t be easy, especially considering it\u2019s Cr\u00e9peau\u2019s first World Cup after missing 2022 after a heroic leg-breaking save to help LAFC win MLS Cup. There\u2019s probably no \u201cwrong decision,\u201d per se, but whichever way Marsch goes will be heavily scrutinized, and telling the pair of longtime friends which one will get to live their childhood dream isn\u2019t an enviable position to be in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s taken years, but Marsch will finally decide his starting goalkeeper for the World Cup this week. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21539,17,28760,28759,2807,17655,8134,28758,27300,3543],"class_list":["post-69169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-c-larin","tag-canada","tag-canada-vs-uzbekistan","tag-friendlies","tag-ireland","tag-j-david","tag-j-marsch","tag-m-flores","tag-uzbekistan","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}