Gold Cup roster/ Grenada match

The only thing bad about Davies was his horrific dance thing after he scored.

 

Speaking of horns.....I just wanted an excuse to post this shirt/picture.

 

Robbie Rogers was my man of the match. He was quick and composed on the ball. His passes were very good and he looked like he was a step faster than everyone else. Honestly, i did not know he was that good! Guys that stood out for me were Davies, Rogers, Adu, Pierce, and Holden. They all looked very comfortable today. Great flick on by Pierce for the Davies goal. Hopefully our team will continue to look good against tougher opponents and we will see some more of the guys who need to audition. Go USA!

 

1. Grenada is indeed one of those minnows.. it seemed that the US was using some pretty simple attacking ploys, shame those guys' MLS teams forget them so often.
1 A This was the B squad, guys. Playing against a C level opponent.

2. I think Robbie's breakout is great, but he did exactly what he did last year for typ ninety minutes a game; this year he hadn't yet recovered his timing with the Crew.

 

<----- Winner of the BIG DUMMY award for the day, by misprogramming my DVR and not getting to see any of the game.

 

Here are some highlights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDW2-9uuGc

 

I am not sure how much there is to be taken from this match other than to say the entire team played a nice passing game, controlled the ball very well and dominated a team it should have dominated.

Robbie Rogers deserved the MOM but I will refrain from heaping to much praise on him because he had a lot of time to execute. The same goes for everyone else. I liked what I saw and hope it continues against a higher quality opponent. I am also not going to judge Troy Perkins to harshly for flapping about a bit on his one and only save of the match. Maintaining focus during a match like that is a goalies greatest opponent. Overall it was fun to watch a US squad dissect their opponent in such a methodical manner.

 

Here is a write-up Don:
Guadelupe 2 - Panama 1

 

Amazing innit we're seeing all these minnows.. but having had no interest in the Gold Cup start up.. WhereTheH is T&T?

 

if I recall correctly they did not qualify.

 

Don's right about T&T, Guadeloupe took them down.

 

I decided at the last minute to take the ferry down for the weekend and catch the Seattle double header. I arrived an hour or so before the first game, dropped my bags, headed for the stadium, and picked a ticket off a scalper for the cheapest price you could get at the box office. Much to my amusement the ticket was to a suite.

The other nine people present had bought fortuitously bought their tickets from the same guy. So we drank the free beer in the fridge, enjoyed the comfy chairs and flat screen tv's, and watched a US victory.

The Linkem Foundation, whoever and where ever they are, may want to investigate just how the haggard scalper got a hold of tickets to their suite.

 

That's the most entertaining thing I've heard associated with the Grenada match, nice job and thanks for sharing!