Sunday, June 27, 2010

Ghana 2, USA 1; World Cup

Ghana showed what you can do with world class strikers who can fight off two defenders and blast the ball over the hands of the keeper. For some reason, USA doesn't develop world class strikers and this has always handicapped us when we go against the good teams (Landon Donovan played an attacking midfield role in this World Cup). A lot of our attacks depend on that cute last pass in the box which most top teams have no issue in denying.

Coach Bob Bradley went with two players in the lineup, Findley and Clark, who hadn't done much in previous matches and failed spectacularly this game. To correct this glaring mistake, Bradley used two early subs to get back to the side that played well at the end of the Algeria match. This left him with few options at the end to get some fresh legs when the game went into extra time.

Still, major improvement from 2006.

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