US Goal.. Bocanegra scores off a header six yards out (from a corner) 8th minute... About the worst possible start for Canada
Maycoll Canizalez took a corner for Canada, so we know at least one Canadian player. Canizalez plays for Werder Bremen reserves, and tonight is his first senior national team cap.
Starting 11 for USA 4-4-2 Thornton Convay - Boca - Califf - Vactorine Beasley - Donovan - Mastroeni - Klein Cunningham - Mathis
Canadian starting 11, as posted on the US section... Goal: Lars Hirschfeld Defense: Carl Fletcher Tony Menezes Richard Hastings Midfield: Tam Naliwa Chris Pozniak Atiba Hutchinson Daniel Imhof Maycoll Canizalez Strikers: Sita-Tany Matondo Davide Xausa Interesting to see 18 year old Matondo start up front. He currently doesn't even have a club.... Hutchinson is also getting his first national team cap.
USA - GK: Howard D: Victorine, Califf, Bocanegra, Convey M: Klein, Mastroeni, Donovan, Beasley F: Mathis, Cunningham Reserves: Rimando, Mulrooney, Twellman, Olsen, Garcia, Ralston, Vagenas Canada - GK: Hirschfeld D: Fletcher, Menezes, Hastings M: Naliwa, Pozniak, Hutchinson, Imhof, Canizalez F: Matondo, Xausa Reserves: Onstad, Harnse, Reda, Marshall, Williams, Friend ussoccer.com has coverage of the game on their match tracker.
For anyone who might want to follow the match, just go to this thread... https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=627023#post627023
and its 3-0 USA at half... Canada has had a few chances, but nothing has come out of them (obviously)
Like I told everybody here on the 27th of December and repeated many times after the final score would be 4-0, and it was.
Can you pick six numbers for me? Did you get a chance to watch the game? I am glad I didn't drive to Ottawa to watch it...
I wish I could pick six number for me! No, I didn't see it. Rather than go downtown to watch it in a cafe with Vic Bianchin, the editor of the world football pages, and who knows who else has a stong dislike towards me, and knowing that they'd lose 4-0 I stayed home and followed it on the USA match tracker. I'm glad I did.
Canada were in a hiding to nothing At least youth is given a chance. That's the only possitive thing to come out of this game. Did Friend come on as a sub?
Fair enough. I predicted that score the day before the match when I was informed that De Rosario got a broken foot & once we knew that Stalteri, De Guzman & McKenna would all also be unavailable (on Dec. 27th we thought they would be). Had those guys played there's no way the score would have ended up 4-0.