World Cup 2014

not sure that Savage has really thought his "when rooney misses those chances he gets hammered, so why not shit on altidore?" argument through properly

Uh oh, that's the end of the WC for Altidore...

Ghana are gonna split the defence with a pass sooner rather than later imo

enjoying this game regardless, it's boisterous but not in a gonna-be-walking-dead-by-half-time way

Am I the only who is annoyed by the fluo shoes?

jozy out the door

nooooo

Poor guy. Who's this Danish jailbait replacing him?

"Clint Dempsey's 31 seconds goal" - why not use the ordinal? fuckit, turning the sound off

Dan, does Bradley normally play towards the base of MF or further frwd usually?

Last half dozen friendlies he's been pushed up

Dempsey now being partnered by some punk kid who, if I remember my 1980s films correctly, will rue the day he ever bullied Anthony Michael Hall when he gets beaten up by a robot with mad kung-fu skills about 15 minutes before the end.

Altidore replacement is Johannson, who coincidentally also replaced him scoring way too easily at AZ

BIDEN!

we can't lose!

Is Besler any good in the MLS? He turns up in my MLS Football Manager games a fair bit (I like player drafts, I cannot lie), but mainly seems to get by on being a least-worst option.

feel for altidore, idk how players deal w/ huge disappointments like that after mentally preparing for so long. ghana are moving it around very nicely

the switch is on over to the left all day for ghana but they never play it
US MF p narrow

ffs ref

advantage doesnt mean forget the foul after

didn't realise Atsu was yet another loaned out cog in the Russian Mafias' 10 year plan, fuckim

Besler was defender of the year a season or two ago, def one of the best in the league.

eventually they will have 2 at every club in europe
xp

uh, tim?

White guy with dreads, yup this is the US national soccer team alright

kicked in the head

Ow

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqSLl8cIQAApFQU.jpg

@HassanRouhani: Proud of our boys who secured our first point--hopefully the first of many more to come.

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oww

Deuce ready to throw down now

sometimes to get the ball "in the goal" you have to think "outside the box" - what if all the US players link arms and form a circle around the ball so the other team can't reach it? is this legal, and if so could they just do that for the remaining 55 minutes or so? might be a really innovative and noble way to win

Is it still possible to bring on Landon Donovan

they could all fart too

a ring of farts

P sure the Italians tried that in the 80s

sometimes to get the ball "in the goal" you have to think "outside the box" - what if all the US players link arms and form a circle around the ball so the other team can't reach it? is this legal, and if so could they just do that for the remaining 55 minutes or so? might be a really innovative and noble way to win

I like this - to think outside the box you have to square the circle

usa very bunched up down the middle, they may well be on their way to karl's innovative technique

http://i.imgur.com/KJpQB7C.jpg

US looking some way short of good right now. Bradley in particular having a stinker, can't seem to do anything useful with the ball at all.

both sides pretty sloppy to this point

dunno what atsu keeps crossing it for, cut in bro

this ghana kit is sustaining me through the dark, dark night tbrr

nice collar v good stuff

all that effort from gyan to keep it in..

just me or do the USA possibly not like it up 'em?

this has been a great world cup for giving the stare of death to the ref after a blatant foul, maybe the best ever

if baseball players played soccer there'd be 14 severe injuries by now, all of them with possible tommy john surgeries in the near future

tasty challenge

If someone were to do a compilation of all the dreadful corners from this tournament, it would go on for ages.

keep thinking this is cobi jones

See also: rejections of handshakes by freshly tackled players.