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...
Looks like Landon had more on his mind than the missus at the Cup....
We weren't that far away this time around with the albatross of two ugly first-round exits in our last three Cups. Now France has bombed out twice...
His moving double-underhanded scoop goal celebration is way cooler than Il Bruce's "frozen fist." Let's hope we get to see it about eight more...
Didn't see a thread on this here. After all the pregame talk, I thought Mr. Simon was excellent. Pretty much even-handed and mostly invisible,...
A British friend of mine says there is growing buzz in the UK that Capello will go with a 4-5-1 and drop Milner or Carrick into the midfield,...
Was curious about a ref perspective on the offside call that negated the Mexico goal in the first half. It looked like the call was spot-on, as...
This answers some of the pregame speculation. Now what do we think the rest of the lineup will look like? How about approach and use of subs?...
This story from this morning implies that he's not full healthy and notes him saying he didn't think the injury when it happened "would relieve...
If we can boil down what we've learned from the pre-Cup games and the current form/health of the USMNT, it seems to be two major points: 1) Our...
Since we don't have a South American team in our group, I'm already dreading the distinct possiblility we'll get our friend Jorge Larrionda at...
I was struck today watching the Cottagers' game effort at Stamford Bridge that this could be very close to the type of game we see in June. Fulham...
I thought this was important enough to pull out of the other thread about the Bradley-Clark midfield. This to me is the bigger decision Bob faces...
1) In the 13th minute, Landon saved a ball from going OB and turned it into a great throughball to Davies. Davies pushed the ball past the last...
What head coach Bob Bradley saw was a chance to solve a recurring problem at left back, a position where Bocanegra starts for his club team in the...
It's very likely the U.S. will have played, over a two-week span, four of the eight seeded teams for next year's World Cup in the host country....
US 3-0 and Brazil 3-0 on Sunday and we're into the semis! :eek:
#USMNT lineup: Howard; Spector, DeMerit Onyewu, Bornstein; Bradley, Kljestan, Donovan, Dempsey, Beasley; Altidore (4-5-1). Beasley's inclusion...
At halftime of one of today's games, Lalas was talking through one of those ESPN Axis slow-motion views of the first Rossi goal, and Lalas was...
Today was the fifth time in the U.S.'s last seven games in major international events (skipping the 2003 Confed Cup, which was the year after the...
It's rarely good to post after a disgusting loss (see: Rica, Costa), but I went back to look at a post I made after the Czech loss in 2006 and...
OK, we got the three points. It's hard to judge the quality of the US performance since T&T didn't want to play (again), but suffice it to say,...
Let's not deceive ourselves ... tonight was two points dropped, not a point gained. It doesn't matter that we denied ES two points, since they're...
The 2005 Hex saw Costa Rica finish third on 16 points while fourth-place T&T finished on 13 points and won the play-in series with Bahrain. This...
I doubt the U.S. has ever played a more competitive, highly contested five-game stretch than what's coming in June 2009: 6/3 at Costa Rica...