4-1 USA Goals by Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Damarcus Beasely and Donovan again. For all the Fire Bruce jokes, he got the result. Anyone want to eat some crow after all the whining about the lineup? I won't hold my breath...
Dear Bruce, Please stop playing Beasley in the middle of the field. He is much more dangerous roaming outside than in getting beat up in the middle. Additionally, please thank Tony Sanneh for a great World Cup in 2002. It's now 2005 and he is clearly finished as an international player. Also, thank you for having the conviction to select Santino Quaranta who was the MOTM until Donovan's inclusion. While your at it, also give Conor Casey his walking papers too. He is clearly hovering below the Ralston Line.
The score does not do justice to how poor our play (read offense) was in this game. We were 2 minutes away from a 1-1 tie with Cuba. We were bailed out by Landon Donovan's free kick. A win's a win though...
I'm glad I stayed up for that result, depriving myself of sleep that could have added to my productivity at work tomorrow. Good result, poor match for 90.32% of it. Good night fellas.
The C team played horribly together, and DMB isn't much of a leader to tie it all together. Our Captain just earned his wings, again.
Soccer is a crazy game. We should beat Cuba by 3 goals, yet we didn't deserve that result tonight. I'll take it.
Yeah -weird game. Like the first day of a 2 week convention where everyone is getting to know each other. Boy did it get frustrating in the second half. It seemed like Dempsey and Quaranta were doing everything but score. Amazing though how the offense went north when LD subbed in for Casey. I'm copasetic.
To play the way we did against players who arent even professionals... Its a disgrace!!!!! And wat is wrong with Conor Casey???
Just wanted to point out that I was quite impressed by the play of Tino. Aside from the one slip on the pitch he seemed to be our most dangerous player for most of the match -- I think he clearly justified his inclusion which is much more than I can say for Sanneh, Armas and Olsen. Also, I thought Dempsey has played better. He seemed to always want to go 1 v 1 instead of working more with his teammates -- when he did the latter he did seem to have good success. Landon is good.
Fire Bruce? Yeah, first half was terrible. Second half much better. I thought Quaranta had a good match, probably the best player who went the full 90.
As long as Bruce is making random placement decisions, along the lines of "Beas in the middle", let's put Kasey Keller at target forward. He sure is big, and he knows how the keeper is going to react. Congrats to the U.S. for eeking out a victory against a side that was vastly superior for 86 minutes of play. Here's hoping Mexico doesn't actually watch the tape. If they do they will laugh until they wet their pants.
This game shows that Clint def has potential. He ahd a lot of good plays...but also lots of mistakes. In a topclass international match he wont get as many chances to shine as he did tonight so he needs to be more consistent
I am just about ready to give up on Casey. The guy simply does not score, or even look like he's going score. Why he keeps getting chance after chance while guys like Buddle and Twellman are shut out is just beyoned me.
I don't think LD saved the game. Getting Olsen and Casey off the pitch saved the game. A nine-man US squad would have beat Cuba. Those two made it a seven-man squad.
I'm proud of Tino tonight, that kid has had more bad luck before the age of 20 then any other US soccer player
Sanneh was fricken brutal Olsen and Davis and Casey poor (quality subs by BA this time) Quaranta, Armas, Hanneman, O'Brien, and Wolff were o.k. kudos to Landon, Demarcus for showing their class. Hejduk was outstanding..should have had 3 assists Conrad absolutely rock solid Dempsey MOM
it is amazing that bruce and i agreed on something. i said aloud to myself, were i to sub three guys after that first half it would be casey, olsen, and davis. of course i thought that dmb was playing horribly, as was sanneh, but those three weren't doing much of anything that impressed me. i was glad to get to that group of guys out there together at the end of the game. quaranta seemed to belong out there. i truly hope we get to see him again. dempsey just showed to me some of his true promise. granted we played cuba, but the ideas and much of the execution was good. just add ej (and remove sanneh)...what a mix. who needs those first 87 minutes anyway?