While the US got the help they needed from the Azzuri, it was no match for 12-man Ghana. Although, in fairness, even excepting the BS penalty awarded to the Black Stars the US would have earned a tie, which wouldn’t have been enough to qualify for the knock-out phase.
So, I’ll kick off the “where was Landycakes” bitching, as well as the “why didn’t Arena go offensive earlier” commentary. In fairness on the second count, Eddie Johnson’s touch was pretty awful when he did finally get into the game.
Kudos to Clint Dempsey, who definitely brought it today, and I think Eddie Lewis acquitted himself well after an awful performance in his previous start (against Czech). Also, while Beasley had an inconsistent game, his setup of Dempsey on the US goal was absolutely phenomenal.
Curious to hear the reaction from those in-stadium. On to the qualifying for 2010…
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 pm
“Although, in fairness, even excepting the BS penalty awarded to the Black Stars the US would have earned a tie, which wouldn’t have been enough to qualify for the knock-out phase.”
Not necessarily true. The US had huge momentum until that BS penalty, which took all the wind out of them going into the half. Starting the second half 1-1 would have made it an entirely different game, with the US more likely to notch another one.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I can’t emphasize enough how much that bogus PK call affected the game. Once they could pack 9-10 behind the ball to start hte second half with Essien in the middle, well, there aren’t many teams in the world that are going to get one much less two against them
I will say this about Landy, there aren’t too many center mids in the world that are going to look good against Essien. I’m not delusional enough to believe he was ever going to take over this game. Having said that, shoot the effin ball.
Ever since Johnson messed up his toe and lost his form, this has been a terribly flawed team that has had horrendous trouble scoring goals. Maybe we should have looked at some younger guys, who know, but my gut says that this WC occurred in a bad year for thsi team. 2005 and I’m guessing 2007 would have been a different story.
Some other random thoughts:
1. We got to play a total of 96 minutes in this WC 11v11 or 10v10 where the other team wasn’t bunkering (aka the first half against Italy and Ghana). While I wouldn’t say we were all-world, it certainly wasn’t as bad as Wynaldo and the ESPN announcers are making it out to be.
2. We got hosed by the refs. In a 3 games, it hard to overcome one seriously match altering call, much less 2,3,4, or 5.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Agreed that the face of the game was changed by the penalty and subsequent goal, enabling Ghana to play a bunker. Of course the US would have had a better chance to score were that not the case.
But I didn’t see a ton from the US side in the first 40 minutes to indicate that they would be _likely_ to score against Ghana the rest of the way out, and once word got to the Black Stars that the Italians were up a man and up a goal, they may have played almost as defensively as they did with a one-goal lead.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Jobbed. Jobbed, I tells ya.
Definitely feels like this type of carefully officiated result was inevitable from the 2nd game forward. US did themselves no favors with missed opportunities - especially Landycakes’ onespeed effort on that beautifully headed pass from McBride - but the additional weight of lopsided calls will kill any momentum.
But I also think the US didn’t attack the 50/50 balls hard enough. And I don’t know who kept telling them to try the long air thru ball every single time they gained posession. I didn’t see a single header won on a long pass the whole tournament.
And to top it all, we didn’t get a single shot of Camena aus Deutschland during the game. The US fans who got camera time weren’t fit to straighten your oversized bowties.
Forza Camena.
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
One more chance to see Camena. Look for Drew Carey on the travel channel tonight. He’s been doing a filmography of the games, and got a shot of the flag earlier today…
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:07 am
its always the referee’s fault, right ??? we didnt do the job..thats the skinny
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