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World Cup Qualifier: Columbus, OH 2/11/2009

Started by NicholeW., February 11, 2009, 08:08:36 PM

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NicholeW.

USA 2 Mexico 0

Goals

Michael Bradley (43)

Michael Bradley (92)

Yellow Cards: Timothy Howard (USA)

Red Cards: Rafael Marquez (Mexico)
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imaz

And who's managing Mexico? None other than Mister Lover, Lover SVG!  :D

Judging by his exploits managing England and his taste for the ladies the poor man probably had very little time to waste on training the Mexicans!
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NicholeW.

Quote from: imaz on February 13, 2009, 12:50:46 PM
And who's managing Mexico? None other than Mister Lover, Lover SVG!  :D

Judging by his exploits managing England and his taste for the ladies the poor man probably had very little time to waste on training the Mexicans!

Ya know, I watched the game and Mexico never had a chance after Howard made his great save at 11 minutes of so. It was a remarkable save and the Mexican mid-field was totally dominated and eaten by the USA midfielders.

You can blame Sven if you wish, but I believe that if Capello or Hiddink or Klinsmann or anyone else had been managing them the result would have been pretty much the same.

Actually the surprising thing was that it wasn't 5-0 and that Bradley's second was deep in injury time.

It's not that Mexico is a poor team, but they are not what they were two years ago and Sven's only been managing them since the summer? It's not Sven.

On that night, in that stadium and with the sort of mid-field play USA had they prolly would have held Brazil or Argentina.

Nichole
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tekla

It didn't hurt that they put the game in a very cold place for a warm weather team. 
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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NicholeW.

Quote from: tekla on February 13, 2009, 03:15:07 PM
It didn't hurt that they put the game in a very cold place for a warm weather team. 

I think that was the idea to begin with, but game temp was over 50F. Not frigid. The wind seemed a larger factor for both teams, it was really strong and long balls were hard to make accurate or, in some cases, even to get to go forward! :)

The USA passed better than I have seen them do in a long time, nice short passing game.

Nichole
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