sometimes El Piojo doesn't want to look around, he just trust in his men from America. IMO there are two or 3 CBs that could be better than Maza and Topo. Pereira from Chivas, Nestor Araujo from Santos and Nacho Gonzalez from Leon. But you are right, Maza and Topo are garbage.
Japan already up 3-0 over New Zealand after only 12'. MEX's play-off results would appear to say more about how bad NZL is, than any reflection of a return to form for our southern neighbors. From the sublime to the ridiculous: 4-0 after 18'
Of mild passing interest...Azerbaijan and the Phillippines kick off in about half an hour...US Soccer Hall of Famer Thomas Dooley is now head coach of the Phillippines...
At this time tomorrow Where do you reckon he''ll be? Away down yonder in the Philippines Talkin' bout the Azerbaijan friendly.
Hmmm...Montenegro up 1-0 on Ghana after 2 minutes...David Addy concedes the spot kick, Damjanovic converts.
Mexico and Nigeria 0-0 at the half. Mexico's defense was getting shredded for a good bit but they responded well and started getting pretty physical. It' seemed like there was a Nigerian player down every 30 seconds for that last 10 minutes.
So from what the commentator said, the Mexican team is going to have a couple of training sessions every 2 weeks from now until the World Cup? Did anyone else catch that?
Some MLS players in action today... Soony Saad (Lebanon) scored in a 5-2 win over Thailand Steve Beitashour (Iran) played the second half of Iran's 1-2 loss to Guinea Michael Seaton, Deshorn Brown, Darron Mattocks (2) scored in Jamaica's 5-2 win over St. Lucia. Both Mattocks and Brown also scored in their 2-0 win over Barbados 3 days ago. Je-Vaughn Watson and Alvas Powell also featured. Andre Blake (Jamaica) kept clean sheets against Barbados and St. Lucia respectively. Tim Cahill scored a brace for Australia who blew a 3-0 lead (!) in a 4-3 loss to Ecuador. Jerry Bengtson scored for Honduras against Venezuela. Boniek Garcia, Victor Bernardez, and former DCU starlet Andy Najar also started. Honduras leads Venezuela 2-1. Julio Cesar started and kept a clean sheet in Brazil's 5-0 rout of South Africa. Feels good to see the starting GK on the Selecao on an MLS roster. Roy Miller and Giancarlo Gonzalez are starting for Costa Rica who currently lead Paraguay 1-0. I'm probably missing a few.
Who is the Nigeria goalie and where does he play? He's either having a great game or he's just a great goalkeeper.
Chicharito off at the half with a knee knock. If this game were a track-meet Nigeria would have won already. Slow as the mexican defense looks, they are organized. 0-0 and this game is starting to make me sleepy.