Confederations Cup, USA vs. Egypt: Is it over yet?

You simply don’t know that. None of us do.

Posted from  United States

i’m glad we get one more chance at a world class team. this could get ugly though.

seriously though, even though he has been really shitty lately, props do have to go to papa bradley for bringing these guys out to play. it was ugly, but we advanced out of a group that is tougher than the group that we will be in next year bc italy and brazil are easily #1 seeds and egypt is good enough to be a borderline #2 seed when the world cup draw will happen.

Posted from  United States

plus we just beat a team that is fresh off of almost drawing against brazil and beating italy. not just that, their chances of advancing were much more realistic than ours were so they should have had more motivation. still, despite that, we beat them 3-0 (and should have been 4 with the handball). are some of you seriously not happy about this?

Posted from  United States

We beat an Egyptian team that was weakened by injury and we need Italy to lose 3-0. Let’s not get excited about being the most fortunate team in history.

Posted from  United States

Yep. 4-4-2 with two pure forwards seems to be the way to go. That second forward can be Ching or Davies for my money. Clearly, both have worked better with Altidore than the combo of Donovan and Dempsey.

Agree on Bradley’s ability to get forward. Really looking forward to seeing a Bradley/Jones pairing in Azteca and beyond. Continue to get Jozy some seasoning and it’s a very solid front 6.

We left a bunch of space out wide today, but all over the field, much better effort.

No doubt on Guzan or Howard. It’s Howard. Guzan had some great reactions tonight, but I didn’t thinking he was as effective at coming out and probably gave them chances that Howard wouldn’t have allowed to begin with…a good move to switch it up though.

No, SP, not happy at all. For the future of US Soccer, this is a very bad result. How people can’t see that, I have no idea. Unless you think doing things like playing Beasley the first two games, not playing more defensive players on the pitch when up by one and down by a man against Italy and bringing on Connor Casey on against Egypt are good moves.

They are all idiotic.

But I’m sure Torres is excited that he was the best player on the pitch in the first half against Costa Rica and he hasn’t been played since.

Bradley is horrible. The longer he is in charge, the longer we remain a team that needs Italy to lose 3-0 to advance.

So, not happy at all. When you watch us demolished by Spain, you may understand why.

Posted from  United States

Somehow my fellow US fans still want us out of this tournament even though we advance, I don’t understand it they had 4 bad games, any team and I mean any team is entitled to that, now they spank the pharohs and have a chance to face the Euro champs.

I for one am ready to see what can happen, give the yougins a go, I think they will take this US team very far.

Posted from  United States

yeah we did need italy to lose 3-0 to advance, but do you remember how no one in the world was thinking we would advance in the first place?

i understand you don’t like the current state of affairs, i just don’t understand how that can will someone to cheer against their team

Posted from  United States

Really? I think anyone hoping for wins right now is hoping for more pain. It’s called wanting the suffering to stop sooner.

Posted from  United States

since when has advancing to the semis been equal with suffering? sorry, i just can’t understand you.

on a politics tangent, this is like the whole “i hope obama fails” argument that rush limbaugh had.

Posted from  United States

before you say this is prolonging the suffering,
you could just as easily say could the start of something big, maybe now we start playing like we should.

Posted from  United States

Thanks SP. I think there is too much of a negative attitude from euro soccer snobs in the US for them to appreciate the strides their own country is making in the sport. Building a national culture of soccer and then building a world class national team around that is a proccess that takes decades and every win, however improbable, is progress towards that.

Posted from  United States

The delusion of many fans is saddening. Not only is our team not equal to great nations, but our fans aren’t either. No great soccer nation would have put up with Bradley this long and certainly would be able to see that moving on to the next round was shear luck because of Italy collapsing and Egypt being overwhelmed by injuries.

I look forward to the World Cup. I’m sure we’ll far surpass our previous successes with Bob at the helm.

Posted from  United States

DAinLA,

You sound as if you’re styling yourself after an english pundit and if memory serves their record in international play of late hasn’t been stellar. In my humblest of opinions BB has instilled work ethic and a level of fitness that previous (nameless) coaches lacked. You further seem to miss the forest for the trees regarding the quality of play on exhibition in the game conerned, albiet the previous run of form has been abysmal. Who would you recommend as a replacement for Mr. Bradley?

There are dozens of replacements available. It’s a ridiculous point and I’ve been over the list many times. Not willing to go down that road again.

Interesting lame dig about England. Has nothing to do with me. Try another attempt.

The “quality” of play was okay at best. You seem to have missed the injury problems of Egypt.

Posted from  United States

ok their leading goalscorer was out. our leading defender/captain was out. doesnt really seem like an injury imbalance to me.

Right, they were just missing their captain, the guy who leads the offense and was a part of most of their goals. Only that guy. And I guess you missed the two injuries during the first half, which took out two starters and handicapped their ability to make subs to adjust to the play. But, yeah, not much of an effect at all.

Posted from  United States

It was also our first game this tournament where we didn’t have a guy sent off the field. Seems like the US can actually play some soccer when it isn’t a man down!

(But please for the love of God leave Beasley out of the team!)

Posted from  Japan

right, and we were just missing our captain, the guy who leads our defense and is a part of a lot of our defensive plays. and we were dominating that match before the egyptians got injured, so what is your point exactly?

Dempsey out, Beasley in!

Posted from  United States

We’re better without our captain, SP. He’s actually not that good in the middle.

Posted from  United States

yeah i can see how you would rather not have boca in there since you want us to lose

You can suck on your lack of hope!

Posted from  United States

…and your defeatest attitude. Of course, lotta luck to make it to semis, but raw emotion and scrappy execution has taken the US to the final, and possibly a Championship…Who knew!

Posted from  United States

Nice Photo. That is hillarious.

Posted from  United States