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Hopefully nobody had Tyton. That would be -6 for saving the pen.
I realize Poland doesn't have much of a bench but it'd be nice if Smuda used one of his two remaining subs. Both teams looked drained.
Oh well. Could've been much worse, could've been much better.
They are a vanilla team with a topping of Karagounis.
In a way their plainness is kind of compelling, but they're slow, have no flair, and not much creativity. They're the sporting entertainment equivalent of wearing an itchy sweater.
The best analogy I can think of is to compare Greece to the 49ers from last year - low scoring, aren't going to impress you with exciting or dynamic play, but they grind out wins.
Disciplinary record of the Spanish ref from Poland/Greece this year: pretty colors
That wiki page with all the the ways you can order a beer in Australia is hilarious.
Jerk-off. Ha! Keller must be an Archer fan.
I am giggling every time Keller says that. I wonder if he can actually pronounce Zhirkov's name properly.
He clearly didn't spend much time practicing how to pronounce names before this game. It's funny hearing Derek Rae say a name and then Keller saying it in a completely different way.
"74 min: The inevitable has come to pass: Pavlyuchenko replaces Kerzakhov, who will presumably attmept to find a place on the bench but end up falling on to the grass."
Hehe.
I have a hard time agreeing.
Actually, yes. I'm not even joking.
And sorry for not being around for the games, but my internet decided today was the perfect day to take a 12 hour vacation.
Starting at left back is Jose Torres. They'll win anyway but why not put Parkhurst there, since he's actually played the position before?
You can put Bocanegra there too. I guess neither Parkhurst nor Boca can do what Klinsmann wants out of a left back?
Then, as soon as we get to the tournament, we are the weaker team trying to hold off the big boys.
Even though it would make qualification more difficult, I wish that some of the North American teams were closer to the South American ones in terms of quality. I think it helps the CONMEBOL teams a lot that they get 18 high-stakes games against good-to-very-good competition in this process. I just can't see how much it helps us to repeatedly work on breaking down Guatemala, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbadu, etc.
Maybe, but neither can Torres, who is awful defensively. There is nothing to gain by putting Torres there, with Parkhurst at LB you can see how he fits into your picture at least a little bit. I'd be really pissed if I was him.
Well, at least 4 minutes into the game JFT is playing up so high he's basically a midfielder.
I don't want to sound too harsh but I wouldn't be too concerned with hurting Michael Parkhurst's feelings.
Yeah I don't want to make it sound like slighting him is some big deal. It's just yet another head scratching move by Klinsmann, who isn't the most popular manager from a player's perspective.
Goal Bocanegra! The avalanche hopefully begins.
Anyone else?
I'm enjoying the attacking from the US though.
Dempsey and Howard. Donovan is better than Stuart Downing, Bradley is better than both Parker and Jordan Henderson and, though it's weird he's even on the team, I'd take Bocanegra over Martin Kelly. I'm not convinced Carroll is better than Hercules Gomez, either. Jermaine Jones would be an interesting argument, too. He's better than Henderson but I'd say he and Parker are neck and neck.
Hmm, well the good version of Carroll is clearly better than Gomez' ceiling. And I think Carroll is going as a gamble that they'll get the good version. I mean, Crouch is pretty clearly better than Gomez, for example, but he's not going.
But those are a few other good calls.
I'm not sure if it says more about the decline of England or rise of the US, though.
A little of both and a little of weird squad selection by England. Plus I don't rate a lot of the Liverpool brigade as much as Hodgson and the FA do.
In hindsight Lichaj probably should've been included on this roster.
For whatever its worth here is the US' starting 11 from their first 2010 World Cup qualifying match:
- Brad Guzan
- Carlos Bocanegra
- Pablo Mastroeni
- Oguchi Onyewu
- Steve Cherundolo
- Clint Dempsey
- Landon Donovan
- Brian Ching
- Michael Bradley
- Heath Pierce
- DaMarcus Beasley
Sadly, I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion. Seriously, drop Gooch and bring back DeMerit.
That's...a bit of a stretch, although Onyewu's positioning was never good, and now he doesn't have the skills to cover for it. Cameron should be in the first XI, and it's time to integrate Ream and (when he gets healthy) Omar Gonzalez. Zak Whitbread deserves a look, too.
Oh and the US beat Barbados 8-0 that game. Doesn't look like that will happen here.
You don't need hindsight, he should have been there from day one.
Or bring in Cameron, who is much, much more likely to play in the World Cup than Gooch is. This is a long term project after all.
To be fair, Gooch had two injuries this year, he probably isn't at 100%. He did have a nice season in Portugal this year when healthy.
That's good persistent attacking.
Gus Johnson and Michael Kay are calling the game?
Russia - Germany 0:2
Netherlands - Czech R 2:1
Spain - France 3:0
England - Ireland 1:0
Germany - Spain 0:2
Netherlands - England 3:1
Spain - Netherlands 0:1
This feels like it should be a high scoring game but Van Persie and Robben aren't locked in. Affelay is impressive.
Hey Roberto Martinez!
I don't know, of Arshavin, Rosicky, RVP and Chesney, who would have picked Arshavin to be the most impressive...so far. It's early of course so I'll take the irony while it's available.
The Dutch have to start throwing more attackers on soon, don't they? Even a draw here is pretty bad.
And for that Afellay should be very grateful. He doesn't do much of anything defensively.
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