Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Confed Cup: USA - Spain 2nd Half



46:00 - Not many people keep rockin' the peach fuzz mustache after puberty, but Iker Casillas is keeping the dream alive.

51:00 - The endless stream of corners is eventually going to kill the USA. I doubt it will be on a header, just on some amazing move along the baseline.

52:20 - Dempsey again overplayed the contact, but it's hard to see how that wasn't a card but Donovan's was.

53:30 - I gotta say, that seemed like a penalty. Of course, Donovan was clocked in the exact same way in a previous Confed match, so I guess it balances.

64:00 - OK, my 10 minute cherry break is done -- the boys need my blogging to keep them going. The two very near misses make me pass on the pits and return. Though, I think cherries are clearly not a breakfast snack -- the pits mean you need to be fully awake to tackle them.

66:30 - End-to-end action! Well, if you consider keepers picking up bad deep passes to be action.

69:00 - Torres was again about 6 inches from 1-1. That's gotta get old. And a big shoutout to Charlie Davies for another great game of running.

70:15 - And Dempsey predictably drops like a ton of bricks when whacked by Puyol.

72:00 - Spain seems to have figured out Altidore is good at shielding with his body, not so good with his touch.

73:20 - GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! Dempsey takes advantage of a bad-luck touch on a Donovan cross to put the USA up 2.

75:30 - While Altidore is good at using his body, he's also been taking notes from Dempsey on his flopping. Any more of that and I'll be channeling Sean Connery.

78:30 - More fouls like that and it won't be a shutout much longer. Also, these chest pains might get worse.

80:30 - Assuming Brazil takes care of business tomorrow night, I think we can safely say one of the Confed Cup groups was a bit tougher than the other.

82:00 - Altidore is clearly hurting here. I think a sub wouldn't hurt. On the bright side, Dempsey is running all out to keep possession. Good to know he wasn't mailing it in, just saving himself for the important games.

84:10 - Spain still hasn't figured out that the guys in white are getting all the crosses.

86:00 - Apparently getting the ball isn't enough to avoid a red card if you're Michael Bradley. Fing bullshit. The cleats weren't up, it wasn't vaguely dangerous. Ugh.

88:40 - Landon! Donovan draws a yellow Fletch-style -- walks into the Spain player and drops. Of course, a red would have made it 10-10.

90:00 - 3 minutes of stoppage. I'd feel better if Spector didn't keep leaving a guy open on the wing. Of course, with Bornstein having fresh legs for the saving tackles, that's ok.

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