No ramblings.
No preamble.
No time.
Have to run out for work, so not too much time to marinate on the USMNT/Denmark game. You're getting bullet points. Enjoy.
* Danish Tex Mex? Who would have figured? I'm sure salted cod and salsa make an excellent burrito combo.
* Missed the first 15-odd minutes watching the ends of the Algeria/Egypt hate-cast and the Ukraine/Greece snooze-fest.
* Thank you Thomas Sorensen. Jeff Cunningham may never get an easier chance in his life. Hard to really evaluate Cunningham. For a guy like he him it all boils down to the near mythical, "form" scenario.
* Four concurrent games at once might be the limit of my "Computer-Brain" powers, especially with three (Slovenia/Russia; Portugal/Bosnia; France/Ireland) on my computer streams. You try to watch three matches and end up watching nothing.
* So ESPN invented "Soccer Power Index", eh? Guess we have to applaud them for trying, right?
* Ugh...the U.S. defense got toasted in the second half. Suffice to say, the Jonathan Spector center back experiment took a hit today. Three goals in the first nine minutes of the second half? Spin it how you like, but that was abysmal. Doesn't seem to matter who is playing defense for the U.S., as ball watching is a uniform trait. Hate to use such a lame, overwrought cliche, but the Danes carved through the U.S. defense like a hot knife through butter.
* Another ineffectual match by Michael Bradley before being subbed out in the 60th minute. Consider this just another of the laundry list of concerns for the U.S.
* We finally get Edgar Castillo, and he plays in the left midfield. Some things I'll never figure out, like Bob Bradley's undying loyalty to Jonathan Bornstein, which is shaping up like Francis Ford Coppola using his daughter Sophia in 'Godfather III'. At the same time, didn't notice too much from Castillo.
* Absolutely no spark whatsoever by the U.S. Particularly anemic showing by Jozy Altidore and the rest of the forwards. Why even bother putting on the boots? Blame the jet lag, or whatever, doesn't excuse a limp performance.
* They're red, they're white, they're Danish Dynamite! Credit to the Danes, they looked good -- at least for 10 minutes.
* On paper, yeah, it sounded like a good idea to play a pair of matches against European World Cup qualifiers. As it turned out, the U.S. got next to nothing from the two matches.
No preamble.
No time.
Have to run out for work, so not too much time to marinate on the USMNT/Denmark game. You're getting bullet points. Enjoy.
* Danish Tex Mex? Who would have figured? I'm sure salted cod and salsa make an excellent burrito combo.
* Missed the first 15-odd minutes watching the ends of the Algeria/Egypt hate-cast and the Ukraine/Greece snooze-fest.
* Thank you Thomas Sorensen. Jeff Cunningham may never get an easier chance in his life. Hard to really evaluate Cunningham. For a guy like he him it all boils down to the near mythical, "form" scenario.
* Four concurrent games at once might be the limit of my "Computer-Brain" powers, especially with three (Slovenia/Russia; Portugal/Bosnia; France/Ireland) on my computer streams. You try to watch three matches and end up watching nothing.
* So ESPN invented "Soccer Power Index", eh? Guess we have to applaud them for trying, right?
* Ugh...the U.S. defense got toasted in the second half. Suffice to say, the Jonathan Spector center back experiment took a hit today. Three goals in the first nine minutes of the second half? Spin it how you like, but that was abysmal. Doesn't seem to matter who is playing defense for the U.S., as ball watching is a uniform trait. Hate to use such a lame, overwrought cliche, but the Danes carved through the U.S. defense like a hot knife through butter.
* Another ineffectual match by Michael Bradley before being subbed out in the 60th minute. Consider this just another of the laundry list of concerns for the U.S.
* We finally get Edgar Castillo, and he plays in the left midfield. Some things I'll never figure out, like Bob Bradley's undying loyalty to Jonathan Bornstein, which is shaping up like Francis Ford Coppola using his daughter Sophia in 'Godfather III'. At the same time, didn't notice too much from Castillo.
* Absolutely no spark whatsoever by the U.S. Particularly anemic showing by Jozy Altidore and the rest of the forwards. Why even bother putting on the boots? Blame the jet lag, or whatever, doesn't excuse a limp performance.
* They're red, they're white, they're Danish Dynamite! Credit to the Danes, they looked good -- at least for 10 minutes.
* On paper, yeah, it sounded like a good idea to play a pair of matches against European World Cup qualifiers. As it turned out, the U.S. got next to nothing from the two matches.
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