It's nice to say "WE SHOULD BEAT CRAPPY TEAMS LIKE GUATEMALA!!!!" and maybe that should be true at this point, as difficult as Central America is...
Didn't see the match. The result in terms of the only true goal -- advancing to the Hex -- is a good one. One of the three contenders dropped two...
Questionable. Could have been called. A lot of leg gotten. What were you watching? Clear foul by Mexican defender reaching back and clipping...
2010: We qualified with one match to spare 2006: We qualified with *three* matches to spare 2002: We qualified with one match to spare 1998: We...
Or, in other words, the 80-20 rule, where the first 80 percent of the project is completed within the first 20 percent of the time. To get the...
I'd be interested to hear an argument. The surface evidence isn't in your favor.
I know. I've killed Bob for several years and have spent the last two days defending him in almost every thread.
Maybe the fact that we lost to Panama in the group stage eliminated our ability to rest some starters against Guadeloupe? He benched Donovan for...
Amazing how many people missed the point of my initial post. Nowhere did I say Tim isn't our best option (by far) at this point. Here (again)...
Who said Howard has to go? He's still our best option by a country mile at this stage. I'm just saying that's he's been pretty damn mediocre for...
This is not a one-night reaction. Here's a recap of his performances during the Hex in 2009:...
Casillas wouldn't have allowed the second and third goals tonight, but that's neither here nor there. This is a long-term trend of average-at-best...
Howard had a poor night tonight, being partially at fault on at least three of the goals. This was the latest in what's more or less been a...
The back four after Cherundolo exited were obviously poor, but it would have been nice for Howard to have made one halfway decent save at any...
I can't believe I'm going to defend Bob Bradley... The only "mistake" if you want to call it that was thinking we could squeeze one more major...
I agree in theory, but I don't know that we want to try to hold possession tonight, at least not early when MEX is pressing like crazy. It may be...
Wait, Aguilar was available for the match, but they gave it to Gantar and made Aguilar the fourth official???!...
This Spanish-language preview article also lists Gantar as the ref. How would he get this assignment? He just got his FIFA badge this year, right?...
Dude, that's the 3-6-1. We slaughtered Austria with it.
The most important thing so far is that the horseshoe that has been rammed up Bob's posterior for much of the last five years seems to have life...
Is this where we also try to explain why our pipeline of younger goalkeepers is becoming increasingly black?
He certainly made sure to sell the foul, but he got clipped.
These games are AT HOME. You provided one example in your list which is comparable -- 2-1 over El Salvador -- which was a match everyone was...
I can't believe we're at the point where we're nervous about home matches against Jamaica and Panama/El Salvador. We have never lost to Jamaica...
I guarantee you that Mexico draws Cuba and that's the group that T&T's quarterfinal group feeds into. U.S. will get Jamaica and Honduras will...