The USMNT played much better the second half. They played more cohesive football and taking Spector off was huge. Torres also showed more ball skill then Clark I feel. They key for me though was Findley, who certainly played himself into the starting 11 while showing strength, touch and a fine eye for the game. [...]
Archive for May, 2010
29 May
LD10 On Playing In Front Of A Yankee Crowd
On what it means to play a Send-Off game in front of a pro-American crowd: “I was a little disappointed the other night not to be able to play in a game like that because it’s not too often we have such pro-American crowds.” “When we play in qualifiers, we always have a large contingent [...]
28 May
Going Phanatical: Turkey Day In May
This might be the easiest preview to write–or the shortest due to Microsoft. The Yanks heads into the city of Unionified City of Brotherly Love to give about 45,000 spectators the ability to assess for themselves the sum of its parts against Turkey this Saturday. (2pm EST) Whereas Tuesday saw the developmental squad get a [...]
28 May
USA v. England by ESPN
No problem posting this, but the guys below in the “Don’t Tread Challenge” did theirs on a smaller budget.
27 May
Tactical Imagery: USA v. Czech Republic
Good evening TSG readers, its Tuesday here again. Usually I’m going on endlessly about shapes and formations down in the comments section but today I’m bringing you the content. A lot of you are probably thinking “what’s really the difference between 4-4-2 and 4-2-2-2?” I wanted to give everyone a different view of the match [...]
27 May
It will rain tears of sorrow in the plains of Spain
The other Guardian publication came out with this article a couple of weeks ago about 6 great teams that never won the world cup. It’s a good read and it got me thinking about other great teams, club and country that had it all but couldn’t capture the big prize. Most recently Barcelona came to [...]
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