The Line-up looked like this:
------Howard------
Hejduk----Onyewu--Bocanegra--Bornstein
----Mastroeni--- Bradley---
Donovan-----Beasley---
Dempsey----Twellman--
Okay the "formation" is interesting. We had this "formation" for school and we lost nearly all of our games, so I and this "formation" do not get along. But these guys are professionals so hopefully they will play alot better in this "formation" then we did.
I took some notes in this game because every time I watch games I always pick up a lot of stuff but soon forget it afterwards. So this time I wrote down what I wanted to mention.
First Half:
The U.S. had 6 chances to get a goal. I think Twellman had three chances, Bradley had one, Donovan had one, and Onyewu had one also. The one chance Donovan had he took way too long to shoot that. I was screaming at the TV for him to shoot, but no he choose to hold it too long. Twellman's first chance should have gone in if it wasn't such a shitty kick. And the other chances he had that Dempsey deflected because he was standing there, nice, really nice.
I thought Hejduk was making some really fantastic runs......... for a winger. He should have stayed back and let Donovan have some space because it looked like Donovan was absolutely confused as to where to go because some defender was trying to take his position. But Hejduk did make a lot of good runs and he did get back in time and save some could have been goals. Other than that I liked him but I think he should stick with just being a defender and stopping giving crappy crosses.
Dempsey, probably my favorite player on the team, I forgive you for standing in front of that shot. I also think the ref kept making a ton of stupid calls on him in the first half.
Other than all that stuff the first half went well even if they couldn't seem to find the back of the net.
Second Half:
This is where they scored the two goals and started playing a little crappy.
Howard made a really great save on a shot that should've gone in. Twellman looked like crap this half I was really glad when they took him off and put in Ralston on, even though Ralston didn't do too much either.
Donovan received a really beautiful pass from Dempsey that almost led to a goal until he was taken down by a defender. And that is were the penalty came in and we scored the first goal of the match.
Then Bocanegra made a goal on a foul kick from Beasley. Oh and thank god the ref didn't notice Onyewu push that guy to the ground. I thought Onyewu should have been subbed instead of Dempsey, because Gooch just played like shit the whole match, which is why Panama scored. Three defenders were crowded around this guy and he still managed to pass and score.
The subs were Ralston for Twellman, Ching for Dempsey, and Clark for Donovan. Second half wasn't really that great but at least they won.
Now I am going to talk about Panama who played like dirty little rats. They wasted time, they bitched about everything, and they fought. I think Panama got 4 or5 yellow cards in this match and 1 red card. But Christ were they just fucking playing dirty. I don't know how they made it this far but if they played like that in all their games I think I know why. Oh and number 22 was like a flopping fish out there. And how many times did the medic people have to come out there for them, 50 80 I don't know but it was obvious who should of won this match.
My man of the match is Dempsey for his beautiful pass to Donovan. He may of blocked one goal but I thought he was fucking awesome, hence the man of the match.
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