Friday, June 18, 2010

In my continuing run of blaspheme: I'm not that excited about the US team. Although they got the draw, they were one of the tighter, least adventurous teams in the opening games. I heard some statistic that the US ranked last in attacking chances. Donavon popped up in strange, not very useful places and Dempsey took one shot (that was pretty much right at the keeper; luckily the keeper flinched). Onyewu was pretty solid and Howard was amazing. We got very lucky.

Still, I expect very different things from the US this game. We don't do well against Europe, especially mid level Europe. The big teams we can (somehow) get a draw against, but the Polands of Europe tend to beat us. There will be more room and more urgency. I think the US can establish control of the game, score a couple goals, and get a win. Torres, let's see what you can do.
2-1 US.

And, wow, France?

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