Its comin up Wednesday, hopefully will be a big day for Reyna and company. A win pretty much seals the deal except for some shouting. GO USA!!!!!!! 3-1
Well, according to Bruce on the live chat on ESPN (see related thread in USMNT N&A), "there's still plenty of great seats available." Hope that doesn't mean he's underwhelmed. Curse these mid-week games!
I could travel the 2 hour drive BUT it's in HD. I'm not going to miss a soccer match in HD. Never seen it before. Who cares about the crowd anyways.
Any ideas on the starting eleven? I see that McBride, Twellman and Cunningham are the only listed forwards, so I hope we get to see Twellman get his minutes and make his case, one way or the other. I also find it curious to call in both Keller and Howard. I guess one of them is insurance.
I hope you are right. The weather is probably going to be nice. But I still don't see breaking 25K. Duing the last Hex, our game against T&T in Foxboro during the middle of the week got something likt 16 or 19K. Considering that our entire qualifying run for 2002 was better attended (and had better media coverage) than this qualifying run, expecting over 25K or even 30K is overly optimistic.
Birmingham was only a little ahead of this pace for its Wednesday nighter and ended up with 31k (of course 11-12k were from Guatamala and I don't know what the T&T support will be like).
LanDo was listed as a forward by USSoccer. He could play up top with BMB and with JOB and CR behind him, thus burying TT and JC on the banch, but I doubt it. I'd like to see TT make a case, as I think he can at least push Brian Ching off the depth chart. Timmy should be KK's back-up in Germany, so he needs to start camping with the US and play in a few later qualies/friendlies. It's my last week in DC, so I'm heading out for one last time out to watch this match. I'll be the fool at the bar in a Reyna jersey yelling my head off! GO USA!!!
Have the Trini fans from Brooklyn purchased their tickets yet? Or will they arrive on chartered buses prior to the game and make the walk up window a nightmare for anyone looking to get a gameday ticket. That could add some significant padding to the attendance #.
No Beasley?? No problem!!! McBride, Landon, Reyna, Keller & JOB should be able to take care of business without the "Beaz"!!! USA 2 T&T 0!!!! A little less than 51 hours to "kickoff"!! C'mon, USA!!!!
heaven forbid we ever play a meaningful match at Home Depot Center and sell it out. No, go to New England for the 456th time in the last two years. What, USSF was afraid of massive T&T turnout in L.A.?
For a mid-week game, there is not a chance that we'd play a game in LA. With European-based players, justified or not, we'lll stick to the east coast for such games......
I see your point, as far as mid-week matches while Euro leagues are in season. Its just frustrating to see match after match played in New England and Columbus. I certainly understand the rationale for not playing against Mexico in California, but we will wind up playing fifteen WCQ and GC matches plus maybe 10 friendlies in the US, none since 1/04 at HDC, and only one (Colombia, a midweek, hastily-arranged affair thrown together at Fullerton) in the entire state.
i'm hoping for another shutout. it would make four straight. this final round of qualifying we have outscored opponents 11-3 and 8-0 in the last three games. i love it! that being said, t&t could possibly catch the team sleeping if they are taking them lightly. with the mexico game coming up, there is always that "looking ahead" factor. still, i think (hope?) our team is at a level that we should be able to control an opponent like t&t without having to be at 100%. and frankly, i expect a huge win. if we are making predictions, i'll go with 4-0.
The PLAYERS care. If you go to the game and shout off your face, you become the 12TH MAN. If you can, go. I live in Mexico City, and if I hadn't just switched jobs, I would have gone...
Given new info that came to light in the ESPN chat today, let's try this... Keller Albright-Onyewu-Berhalter-Lewis Armas O'Brien-Convey Reyna Donovan-McBride
thank you, finally someone who wants reyna offensive center mid....im tired of people saying we should stick him at deep right mid and keep him out of the way (on other threads)
Great lineup, but I don't want Berhalter anywhere near the field. Slip Conrad into that spot and we're 3-0 winners. Probably with Gregg too, but... Also, do you really think JOB starts at RM? He's certainly capable, but I just don't know.