Friday, August 14, 2009

Mexico vs USA


USA traveled to Mexico where they have not been very good. Well that's an understatement. We have never won a match on Mexican soil. This was suppose to be the game we changed that.

We were looking good when we took the lead in the 9th with a Charlie Davies goal. We played decent until about the 15th min. Mexico started applying pressure and in the 19 min of play Israel Castro scored on a 27 meter shot that sailed right over Tim Howard. After that went in we looked shocked. We never did really recover from it. Landon Donavan looked tired the whole game because of the adjust you have to make with the 7,400 feet altitude in Mexico City. This was a heated game the whole way. One of the US players fell down and the Mexico's player tried to help him up but he didn't want up so a shoving match started. No one was ejected but the match was heated.

Landon Donavan took a corner kick and the Mexican fans were throwing different things at him so the cops had to watch close as he took the corner kick. The whole game was heated and in the 82nd min Mexico took advantage of the home field when Miguel Sabah scored a rather lucky bouncing goal right over Tim Howard.

That was that and the USA squad went home again in another sad defeat. We still have a great shot to make it to the World Cup as long as we win our home games coming up. Our next match is against Trinidad and Tobago on September 9th.

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