PBP: 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup: USA vs. Colombia, 6/10 3:30 AM EST

That really sucks. This Serbia team play like men possessed. Then never got tired. Anyway time for the U-20 kids to meet their fate.

 

Serbia was very fortunate in that one but they did not give up and found a way to advance with 10 men.

Let's see what happens.

 

Who got suspended for Serbia?

 

U.S. Soccer YNT ‏@ussoccer_ynt 15m15 minutes agoWellington City, New Zealand
U-20 MNT Starting XI vs COL: Steffen, Payne, Miazga, Carter-Vickers, Acosta, Delgado, Hyndman (c), Zelalem, Arriola, Jamieson, Rubin.

 

Starting lineup:

Steffen
Payne, CCV, Miazga, Acosta
Delgado (ugh)
Arriola Zelalem Hyndman
Rubin Jamieson

 

Milan Gajić

 

Milan Gajic

 

Round 3. I don't know how many more of these all nighters I can handle

 

no moore!

 

Can't wait until this tournament is over simply so I'll never have to see Delgado in a US kit again.

 

inb4 delgado wins MOTM

 

Colombia's manager (who I don't like) just made a lot of changes going into the USA match. Basically instead of 2 strikers he is going with an additional midfielder with only one striker.

So now I bet Colombia will keep even more possession than I originally thought. Whether or not they do anything with it remains to be seen.

USA's best chances will be on the counter and on set pieces.

 

Maybe not tonight but you know he's got a 2 goal game in him at some point in this tournament. The curse of Big Soccer doesn't lie

 

Set piece them to death.

 

Either way this should be a decent barometer for this tournament. We struggled with Myanmar, were amazing against a meh New Zeland team, and were destroyed by Ukraine in a game that we seemed complacent in. Tough to give it a grade so far.

 

Could come down to Zapata-Barrera creative attacking midfield duo vs Zelalem- Hyndman creative duo.

Oh the crazy FIFA xbox moves I expected from both sets of players.

And Rubin is going to be tough for Colombia to stop.

 

I think a lot depends on how we use BJ4. He is a lot like Fellaini with a bent towards offense over defense. He can affect a huge area when played in the right position.

 

Another thing of note, arguably Colombia's most gifted/ talented attacking player is on the bench (Joao Rodriguez).

He could be an "X" factor. Sort of like Lukaku was for Belgium late in the match in the World Cup.

I hope it does not come to that though. I don't want to see this match go into OT. Somebody, anybody please win this thing in regulation.

 

And on the USA's side of things... ... outside the box shots from Arriola can be effective too.

 

Heartbreaking own goal... I feel for Hungary

 

Man, they are dragging this thing, the game in the west coast is now at 12:30 not 12 as before.

 

They do that cause the early matches may go to penalties and they don't want them to crossover into these matches.

 

it said 3:26

 

It looks like windy

 

I just put two and two together and just realized that none of the players on either squad were alive to see the historic 2-1 World Cup victory in 1994.

Boy does that make me feel old.