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U.S. Men's National Soccer (Official Thread)

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The Reggae Boyz should be NO PROBLEM MON.
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US advances 2-0. MUCH better game. They dominated play and Clint had a great performance. I love him in a withdrawn striker/attacking-mid role. He was coming back for the ball and creating from all over the field. Well deserved-goal for Deuce.

Rematch with the Canal on Wednesday. They beat El Salvadore on penalties.

My prediction?

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PAIN!
 
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Just finshed watching it on the DVR.

Jermaine Jones looked good. Glad to see a player who will take a low, firm speculative shot like that instead of trying for the upper corner of the frame every time. If you play it low you have a better chance of keeping it on frame in the first place, and can sometimes get a friendly deflection.

Agudelo wasn't very dangerous per se, but he was very solid after coming of the bench for Altidore.

Dempsey was really showing his ass after that goal. He seemed to think (and the commentary seemed to agree) that his finish today was some kind of vindication for his limp attempt in the previous match. Here's a hint, jackass - if there is a charging keeper between you and the goal, a deft extra touch to get around him is the right play most of the time. When there is nobody between you and the goal however, that is ALWAYS the wrong play.

That may have been the first time at the senior level that I've seen a keeper outside of his own penalty area putting an opponent in an offside position. Can't blame Donovan for that one. He knows the rule, but that's not the kind of situation I'd expect a player even at this level to recognize in real time.

Somebody try to convince me that Kljestan doesn't suck. He looks like a typical middling American player to me - about one step behind physically and at least two steps behind mentally.
 
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jlb1705;1942257; said:
Jermaine Jones looked good. Glad to see a player who will take a low, firm speculative shot like that instead of trying for the upper corner of the frame every time. If you play it low you have a better chance of keeping it on frame in the first place, and can sometimes get a friendly deflection.
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Jones plays like your typical German player: hard-nosed, tough, and smart. I like Jones and he and Bradley played well together. I know Bradley has talent, but he really frustrates me because he is always giving the ball away. The lack of touch among American players is a chronic and devastating problem. As a former goalie, I have to tip my hat to Ricketts, he made some amazing saves. The best performance by the US in a while, but they are going to need to play a lot better to beat Mexico. Give me Howard, Edu, Jones, Dempsey, Donovan, and Cherulondo and that's the start of a solid international team.
 
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That may have been the first time at the senior level that I've seen a keeper outside of his own penalty area putting an opponent in an offside position. Can't blame Donovan for that one. He knows the rule, but that's not the kind of situation I'd expect a player even at this level to recognize in real time.
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it happened in the WC....I think it was against us or I probably wouldn't remember it. I forgot the rule for a second, too.
 
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it happened in the WC....I think it was against us or I probably wouldn't remember it. I forgot the rule for a second, too.
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If I had seen it before I've forgotten about it.

You see that play similar to that sometimes when a keeper comes way off his line to defend a corner, but not often with a keeper as far off his line as Ricketts was. A lot of people seem to get confused by the rule and think that it has to be one non-keeper or the ball between the attacking player and the goal line, rather than two defenders of any kind - with the keeper taken for granted as being one of them almost all of the time.
 
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USA v. Panama coming up on FSC.

Altidore is out for the remainder of the tournament with a strained hamstring. Agudelo replaces him, just like in the previous match.

Bradley is apparently employing some Dusty Baker logic, continuing to keep Donovan on the bench because "it worked last time."
 
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What happened to Stuart Holden?? I thought he was one of our better players throughout the World Cup prelims...

He was always a guy that controlled the ball very well and I expected he'd be a staple going forward for the US Team.
 
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