I am quite emotionally spent after watching that second half. Our boys played with a lot of heart. The Yanks are Coming!!!
A great moment for Ricardo Clark. I have no idea what his future role is in the US squad until he gets his club situation sorted out, but his 3rd US goal had to feel good.
Anyone noticed the commentater on ESPN3 yell goal after Ricardo Clark's Goal? Other then that we should have won by at least 7 goals, their Goal Keeper was solid tonight hats off to him.
Galavision's closing line of the evening pretty much sums up the general wackiness of the whole thing... "Rocco is back!"
I thought we did a very good job in constantly creating opportunities. A lot needed to improve on, but I thought a lot of the guys had pretty decent showings.
Really because Jermaine Jones was excellent. Shea has been on every roster for Klinsmann and he will only get better. Cameron I think earned his chance to see more time
Overall pretty promising for a side that was missing just about every established player. Finishing was woeful as usual unfortunately. Great that we ended up getting a win against that absolutely pathetic Venezuela side.
He was godawful. As was Bunbury. Cameron, Parkhurst, DeLaGarza, Feilhaber, Sapong and Wondo all get a tip of the cap from me. As does Rico for the goal. Jones looks great at times when he pushes the tempo, but so. many. turnovers. Against a decent team that would have done for one goal against. A lurking problem: The US sucks defending set pieces these days. It's going to be a legit problem in the years to come, and it's organizational, not physical.
The result flatters a bit. Defensively we were sound, and Jones had a great match. But, Venezuela was awful, and this should have been a convincing win. I'll concede that their keeper made some fine saves. But at some point, we got start taking shots that are unsavable - that's what good finishers do. We don't have good finishers - this match was further evidence of that. Sorry I'm being Debbie Downer.
You know what? I'll concede Jones as a possibility, but only because of Klinsi's (not surprising) Teutonic bias. Still, that guy is always a hair's breadth away from a numbskull redcard, so I wouldn't take him.
Venezuela's best player had the whistle. Not sure how much can be taken from this one defensively, but I thought all 4 helped their cases some. I'd have like to seen Shea come off early 2nd half and try either a true 4-3-3 or the 442 diamond.
I think Bunbury had a decent game. As did Shea. These guys just looks off the pace a bit due to the off season.
I only got to see the second half, but didn't think that Shea was terrible. We barely got him the ball out wide. When we did a lot of the time it was either too early or too late. We didn't get any service out to the wings.
3 pages and no one mentions how well wondo played. If it was not for stellar goal keeping he would have had one if not two goals and set up a good chance for Teal Bunbury. But it is nice to see the US is still scoring smash and grab goals.