Match 22 - Slovenia vs USA - 18th June - PbP and Post Match Discussion

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Match 22
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Slovenia vs USA
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June 18, 2010 - Ellis Park, Jo'burg
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This thread is neutral and strictly moderated.

Please take strongly partisan discussion to the
team boards or to the World Rivalry board.
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No Flames - No Trolls
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Since I posted this in the just closed pre-match thread, here are the lineups confirmed by FIFA:

United States:

------------------Howard------------------

Cherundolo---DeMerit—Onyewu---Bocanegra

Donovan-----Bradley-----Torres-----Dempsey

-------------Altidore----Findley-------------

Slovenia:

--------------Handanovic--------------

Brecko------Cesar------Suler------Jokic

Birsa-------Koren------Rado.-------Kirm

--------Novakovic----Ljubijankic--------

Yes!. Torres at least!

Torres gets his start today. Lets hope he's ready because he'll have to help Bradley shut down the counter attacks.

After seeing his focus in the Turkey game, I think that he'll do alright. Get 'em, Gringo.

Let us all hope this USA v. Slovenia match gets a better official than Germany v. Serbia received; that game had the most awful ref in FIFA history... sad when Refs determine games!

Go USA!!!!

Many US fans wished Mexico good luck yesterday and I would like to return the favor --- Vamos USA!!

US fans rule. There's a guy in an astronaut suit in the stands!

Interesting, Ljubijankič instead of Dedič. Just like against New Zealand in friendly ...

Gracias, mi amigo.

Torres is badly needed in this game. His ball control, passing, calmness, vision is by far superior to the other midfielders.

2-1 USA

Anthems!

Com'on Yanks!

My wife and I will watch much of the second half of US match at a Mexican restaurant we like. Good luck to Mexico the rest of the way!

Is there 1 official ingame thread?

Why the Heck is Bradley starting Findley again? WTF!!! Making same mistakes as Bruce in 06. Even Joze shouldn't be starting. Put in the guys who were scoring goals. Herculez and Buddle. Joze is not ready yet and would be better used as a Sub as well as Findley.

There is certainly one on the US board, but this is the official one here.

okay here we go - Dempsey needs to keep those elbows down

Dempsey is a lucky boy. If that was later in the game would have been a for sure card.

I am at work (drat)- any streams or radio stations broadcasting this? Thanks a bunch

01' 0-0 #8 Clint Dempsey and #9 Zlatan Ljubijankič go up for an aerial ball. Dempsey leads with a left elbow, foul. Ljubijankič stays down, rolls around, huddle. Hold breath -- no card. N.B. All diacriticals courtesy of Wikipedia's Slovenia page -- it's the one thing ESPN's otherwise-excellent GameCast page overlooks

lol at the ref , seems he will be a bigger jackass than the idiot in the previous match

http://espn.go.com/espn3/player?id=6227&addata=worldcup2010
http://www.atdhe.net
http://livetv.ru/en/allupcoming

If he was playing for Germany or Serbia, he'd be in the dressing room.

thank you