Posted on 06/22/2014 7:51:33 PM PDT by doug from upland
I gotta tell ya. That was a GREAT game. My entire neighborhood here in Pasadena was crazy. People on decks watching and screaming. It was a blast.
The thing i like about soccer is that it’s not played on camels......YET!
We are in big trouble.
Both Ghana and Germany are playing with an extra day’s rest.
We saw what playing in Manaus took out of Italy and England.
Assuming Ghana and Germany win, the only way we make it out is if both teams win by 1 goal. If either wins by more than that, we’re out.
And even then it comes down to goals scored.
One thing for sure is that games such as this one build a lot of tension if you have a rooting interest. The US go-ahead goal brought a YESSS!!! out of me as I leaped from my chair.
But they are all jet-lagged. And that always makes a difference.
The bar I was in exploded.
That may help.
Who won?
I think it is more complicated than that.
There was a substitution right as stoppage time began and the referee added time for it onto the original four minutes.
As for advancing, not allowing a free header when you're playing with THREE center backs in the last half minute of added time is a great way to start. Don't really care if they drew the fourth-ranked team in the world. This one feels like a loss.
They also had the ball in the corner, and cheaply gave it back. You should ALWAYS get a corner kick out of that, and had they gotten it, most likely they run out the clock.
1. Get some real soccer players, instead of the current weekend warriors. :)
Besides often not having enough points scored, the really screwed up thing about soccer is the timekeeping. In this age of technology, why can’t they have the official time for all to see? When there is delayed action on the field, the ref stops his watch and it is there up on the board for all to see. Then they actually play 90 minutes and everyone is going to know exactly when it ends.
The Bears.
Agreed. Between that and Bradley giving away possession against Ghana late, it’s ridiculous. Chances to advance in a World Cup don’t grow on trees but certain players on this team sure seem to think they do.
dfwgator wrote:
We are in big trouble.
Both Ghana and Germany are playing with an extra day’s rest.
No kidding! Ghana will beat Portugal. That’s a given. We will be lucky if it is only one goal difference. Then, if Germany beats us by only a goal we will be OK, most likely.
But Bradley’s idiotic lackadaisical lapse at the end of the match means we have to play to win. There’s no guarantees! Had he played hard and kept game awareness 15 more seconds and simply booted the ball into row 23-F he could have rested completely this Thursday, not even mentioning that Jones and Beckerman and Dempsey could all have done with some rest,too. Now they all have to climb back out there and play a game that matters with Germany!
Bradley is the worst thing to happen to the Men’s National Team since Claudio Reyna.
Oldplayer
Ever since Ghana got that tie with Germany, I’ve had a bad feeling.
My best case scenario did have the US going 1-1-1, but that assumed that Germany won out. Ghana getting a tie against them threw a monkey wrench into the whole thing.
Even in rural Oklahoma, we have enough soccer knowledge to know that the German-Ghana tie was a bad thing. Ghana is a good side and they are tough and motivated. They might kill Portugal by more than two or three goals if they score early. Portugal has nothing to play for at that point. Despite Portugal's late heroics tonight, I don't think they are all that mentally tough. There has been team dissension all along.
Just my opinion.
Olplayer
It’s soccer...
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