USA vs. England Gamethread

[TampaDude]

Wow...huge save!!!

[resistanze]

When did Hesky get back on this team???

[Libri]

Tim Howard

fantastic save

[DesignatedT]

what a save by howard

[EricB]

it's the best sport on earth - just turn on fox soccer channel anytime one of the big leagues has a game on.

Champions league and the Euros are also top notch tourny's to tune into

See thats another thing, when do the seasons start?

Im thinking English Premier league because thats hyped up here alot and alot of people I know follow it so that would be easy, but when does the damn season start, what are the divisions and teams and what not.

I could be lazy and root for the Spurs hahaha

[Spurologist]

Interesting to see who Bradley brings in first

[boston.balla]

ENG US
8(3) Shots (on Goal) 7(3)
6 Fouls 4
4 Corner Kicks 3
2 Offsides 2
50% Time of Possession 50%
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
2 Saves 2

Not exactly an embarrassing performance thus far by the yanks. Can't believe possession is 50/50. Huge coup for the US

england is NOT a possesion team. never was, never will be.

[Libri]

I could be lazy and root for the Spurs hahaha

Tottenham???

[boston.balla]

Tim Howard

fantastic save

that's just a decent save, as a striker at this level you cannot miss that, it's like boston missing layups .. ooh

[boston.balla]

btw the possession is so close cause the english want the us to go up front so they can play alot of balls for the wingers .. which imo is a bad tactic they should hammer them in midfield with pressing, us fold easily to that, will probably see such tactic from the other teams in the group.

[DAF86]

that's just a decent save, as a striker at this level you cannot miss that, it's like boston missing layups .. ooh

What made that a great save was the fact that he retained the ball.

[TampaDude]

See thats another thing, when do the seasons start?

Premier League season runs from August to May.

[sonic21]

If the Spanish league is so crappy why didn't a middle of the table team of another league won that tournament? Remember that Atletico beat Liverpool (a supossed English powerhouse) in that tourney.

i didn't say it was crappy, they're just behind the Premier league. And yes this year only 4-5 teams were good in the PL, Liverpool wasn't one of them.

[boston.balla]

it's almost comical how both team just lob the ball upfront .. classical english approach .. classical english result .. proved since 1966 (when the final was homecooking at its BEST .. forget the lakers refs, they are saints compared to what happened back then .. saints I tell you)

[Spurologist]

Nasty tackle. Fantastic camera work

[symple19]

in brits are starting to get a bit too physical

[DAF86]

i didn't say it was crappy, they're just behind the Premier league. And yes this year only 4-5 teams were good in the PL, Liverpool wasn't one of them.

You do realize that there're no actual facts to bealive that the PL is better than La Liga other than personal BS, right?

[boston.balla]

What made that a great save was the fact that he retained the ball.

at that (lack of) power it's not great. Anyways good point if you're not considering shot power. But a coach in that situation ( two defenders sandwiching a striker) will recommended to block to the wing.

[symple19]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh...........so close

[tlongII]

Damn! Should've scored there!

[resistanze]

They really need to attack Carragher, he's not a good defender.

[DAF86]

Great play from Altidore.

[Spurologist]

Almost

[boston.balla]

LOOL @ capello keeping carragher on altidore...

[boston.balla]

They reall yneed to attack Carragher, he's not a good defender.

he's a targetman defender not a wing defender... capello should be aware of such differences.