Gold Cup

[El Kabong]

Well 4-0 US win over Grenada, solid (yet expected) result, goals from Adu, Holden, Rogers, and Davies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2IGNMKBrY


Rogers looked pretty good

[OumaFan]

fucking hell the defending on the second goal was horrible

anyway good for them. Is Mexico bringing their A team?

Davies is definitely growing on me. How little does Bradley think of Cooper when he can't even get a start on this team?

[El Kabong]

Well to be honest Ouma he played Adu at forward paired with Davies, so it's not as if we weren't deep at striker. We're less deep at midfield (which is where I thought Freddy would be playing) and fullback.

I will tell you, hands down Kenny Cooper is more quality than Connor Casey. He'll get his shot soon enough, I am sure vs Grenada Bradley wanted to experiment with the lineup a bit and how quality were Holden and Rogers

As for the actual game, come on, it was Grenada we were playing...the main points are #1 We played with confidence #2 We went for the kill and #3 We got the result we should have gotten.

We play Haiti next who really gave Honduras a hard time. Mexico beat Nicaragua 2-0.


Here's Mexico's squad:
G12 Jesús Corona
M6 Gerardo Torrado
G1 Francisco Guillermo Ochoa
F Omar Arellano Riverón
G Oscar Pérez
F13 pablo barrera
D8 Israel Castro
F9 Omar Bravo
D15 José Castro
F18 José Cárdenas
D4 Edgar Dueñas
F17 Giovani Dos Santos
D22 Efrain Juárez
F16 Carlos Esquivel
D2 Johnny Magallón
F Guillermo Franco
D5 Fausto Pinto
F20 José Martinez Salas
D3 Ismael Rodriguez
F7 Alberto Medina
D21 Juan Valenzuela
F14 Miguel Sabah
M19 Luis Noriega
F11 Carlos Vela

And Vela got hurt in the game vs Nicaragua, I don't know if that's their A squad or not, but there it is

[OumaFan]

that's much more of an A squad than we brought. How hilarious would it be to beat them again when their pretty much full strength and were not even close to it.

[El Kabong]

It's not impossible for us to beat them, infact I think having our scrubs play a real quality side like Mexico will help us out a lot as far as experience goes.

I would venture to guess that Davies would probably get a breather in the next match and maybe Brian Ching/Connor Casey/Kenny Cooper will fill in, I don't know how fit Ching is since his injury. Freddy may also get moved around to midfield which is what I would like to see as IMO he lacks the size to play up front.

I hope we can continue our success with our B/C squad, we tried one time to play a tournament with a lackluster squad but we totally phoned it in and got stomped out, I hope we can do better with this team, it'll improve our depth and our confidence and the more we win, the more coverage you'll see.

[El Kabong]

Quick correction, the US plays Honduras today AND Benny Feilhaber has been called up for the match

[OumaFan]

I'm thinking about joining the Freddy Adu sucks bandwagon Maybe not yet.

Rogers should make the World Cup roster

This hippie we've got is pretty good, Beckerman.