Magical
The title can sum up the result of Landon Donovan’s oh-so-late finish on a ball loose in the box. With it he scored his second crucial goal, won the US’ first game in 2010, and saved the American’s from a brutal elimination. But it wasn’t always positive vibes coming from the American team and fans. [...]
UNBELIEVABLE, TEAM USA ADVANCES! 92nd Minute Goal Facing Elimination!
LANDON DONOVAN was right where he needed to be moments ago after the United States scored the winning goal in stoppage time against Algeria. England won their match 1-0 and so the United States would have been eliminated with a tie, leaving three matches without a loss and still no qualification to knockouts.
Clint Dempsey missed [...]
World Cup Scenarios: USA’s Qualification to the Knock-Out Rounds
The United States national soccer team suffered a dramatic “loss” of sorts the other day against Slovenia. Even though they came back from a 0-2 first half hole to tie the game 2-2, the team was robbed of a third goal with only minutes to go in the contest. A HORRENDOUS call was made in [...]
Stunner
It isn’t quite Korea/Japan 2002 yet, but this World Cup is beginning to produce an awful lot of surprises. Spain losing to Switzerland. Paraguay drawing Italy. England on level terms with Algeria. Germany losing to Serbia. And France….well that’s for another article (or seven). But today’s match between New Zealand and Italy tops them all [...]
Live Blog of Ghana-Australia Tomorrow!!!!
LGM will do their first live blog of the 2010 World Cup as Ghana takes on Australia in a crucial Group D match-up. Game time is set for 10 am ET and ESPN’s pre-game begins at 930 am. LGM will begin its blog between 945 and 950 am and will extend it until discussion ceases [...]
Plenty of Positives
Yes the United States should have been allowed that goal. Yes that would have made it 3-2 and likely resulted in a win over Slovenia. Yes that win would have essentially clinched a spot in the 2nd round, potentially as group winners. And: Yes the USA needs a win against Algeria in order to make [...]
Yanks Robbed
A furious and brilliant comeback by a spirited American squad was somewhat dampened by a dis-allowed goal that had no reason not to stand, preventing what would have been an astonishing come-from-behind victory. In the end the United States still gathered a crucial point with a 2-2 draw against Slovenia and combined with England’s lackluster [...]
Switzerland Shocks Spain
  The game isn’t played on paper. That old cliché has never been more true than after Switzerland gave Spain a 1-0 loss in their world cup opener on June 16 in Durban. Switzerland’s Gelson Fernandez scored the games only goal in the 52nd minute, against the run of play. Spain was not only [...]
USA-Slovenia Preview
The USA got a huge point against England, no doubt about that. But they immediately have another tough challenge awaiting them in the form of Slovenia. The point against the Brits gives the US side not only a good shot of going through, but also a chance to win the group and avoid playing the [...]
Finally: Goals
It took almost an entire round to produce a game in which both teams scored, yet someone won (North Korea and Brazil) and in general the first round of matches were lacking in goals and even in goal-scoring opportunities. You will hear the commentators say that it is the first round of matches and the [...]
