World Cup Update

Jun 12, 2006 10:50

Well, the US just got clobbered 3-0 by the Czech Republic. It truly was a pathetic showing from the US team. Their ball control was lousy, they took too much time on their build-ups, their counter-attacking was bad up until the last 15 minutes, and their passing was especially not good ( Read more... )

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nousia June 12 2006, 18:09:59 UTC
Ouch.

^ That's all I can say.

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Re: Yeah! World Cup! phoenixds June 13 2006, 05:46:34 UTC
Yeah, in all actuality, it'd be nearly impossible for them to advance. Thinking about it more later, they'd need to beat both Italy and Ghana, and they'd have to have a huge goal differential in both those, along with the Czech Republic winning all of their matches (which would actually be the easiest part).

About Rosicky (thanks, I checked it later, but couldn't remember at the moment), that was definitely a nice job exploiting a total screwup by the US, after which there wasn't much Keller could do. I didn't really expect them to win, but it would have been nice if they'd actually made a match of it, instead of totally embarassing themselves.

Either way, they need a major retooling before the next World Cup, or they're just going to be disappointed again, because there is no excuse for showing up for your first match looking like this, even if it was against the Czech Republic.

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